Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 228, 5 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

CZAR'S ARMIES ADVANCE. GERMANS OUT-MANOEUVRED. Russian wedge movement. FURIOUS FIGHTS IN THE MOUNTAINS. London, Marcli 3. The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent reports tfiat the Russian cavalry movement at Kradmolielc lasl Friday cut the German East Prussian army in two, while there is a considerable "gap between the separated parts and the main Austrian army. The position is dangerous, owing to the sudden offensive Russian movement. Fresh Russian artillery Is reported to be arriving at Provosteie.i, on the northern end of the Roumanian frontier.

Petrograd, March 3. Official.—The offensive on the Niemcn and Vistula continues. A successful advance has been made south-west of Grodno, the Germans resisting stubbornly. A furious all-day battle in the Carpathians culminated in hand-to-hand fighting. There were enormous Austrian losses, many detachments being annihilated. The slopes of the mountains and ravines were strewn with Austrian dead. Paschaloff, an aviator with General Ivanoff's army in Poland, accompanied by a mechanic, made a reconnaissance and descended owing to motor trouble behind the Austrian lines. While repairing the engine they opened fire wiiha machine-gun, killing' five out of six of an Austrian patrol. The survivor surrendered and was taken on board the aeroplane to the Russian lines. Petrograd. March 3.

A communique states:—We repulsed ft or man attempts to approach the fortress of Osowiec and continue to repulse furious Austrian attacks between the Omlavo and the San. . We enveloped and annihilated two German companies in the region of C'oziuvka and Hojanka. The Austrians defending the passage of the Lomnitza suffered a serious revers-. Oir troops crossed tlie river and captured fiOO men, 04 officers, four guns, seven machine-guns, and many transports.