Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 8 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

GREAT AUSTRIAN REVERSE. OUT-G ENER ATXED BY THE RUSSIANS. Received 7, 11 p.m. Petrngrad, March 7. Details of the lighting at Stanislavoff show that the Austrinns at the outset had twenty big guns on heights commanding the [Russian positions. After initial succsscs the infantry advanced in four lines, each comprising four regiments, with auxiliary troops. When a hundred yards had been covered a masked Russian battery opened against the artillery and infantry. After the latter lmd been heavily shelled the Cossacks galloped in, throwing the lines into con-, fusion. The Cossacks then withdrew, and quick-firers took up the work, mowing down the Austrian front line and forcing the others to retreat. The Austrian* thereafter vainly endeavored to make a. stand in the Lukwa district. Their In.-ses were enormous. Official.—The enemy were dislodged from the heights northward of Lomza. We are continuing the offensive in Fntern Gnlicia, after expelling the Austrian's from fortified positions at Bistritza.

GREAT RUSSIAN CAPTURES. ARMY COIiPS DECIMATED. QUARTER OF A MILLION GERMANS. LOST. Received March 7, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, March C. The Russians captured 153 officers, 13,522 men, five guns, fifty-two ma-chine-guns, 519 horses, and many trains in the Stanislavoff region, in ten days. Xliey captured 12 guns, 29 machine-guns, 12-2 caissons, and many trains at Prasnyz. 'Die Germans in superior numbers almost surrounded the Russians at I'rasnyz. At Lyskovo tho Russians turned tli e tables on- February 24th, when they captured Krasnosoltz and bent back the' German left to Schliar, took Prasnyz, and enveloped the other llank westwards, preventing the retreat towards Mlawa. •The remains arc now falling back on Thorn. Th e Russians on the 2Gtli and 27th forced two army corps to .retire into a neck seven miles wide between Dzcelin and Sc'ilair. Of one army corps, mostly freshly-trained men, only a quarter escaped'. It is estimated that General von TTin--denberg lost over a quarter of a million last month. Nearly thirty thousand were killed at Prasnvz.

THE CARPATHION CONFLICT. AUSTRIAN,S GIVING GROUND. CZERNOWICZ EVACUATED. POLISH PEASANTS FIGHT FOR RUSSIA. Rome, March 5. The Austro-llungarian censorship of dispatches is increasingly severe, nevertheless they show that a tremendous conflict is raging on the whole of the Carpathian frons. ' Petrograd, March 5. The infantry brigade of the £oth Ease Prussian Aruiy Corps suffere.l tsemendous casualties at Kcrjik and 000 prisoners were taken. Tiie peasants, both men and women, in Northern Poland during the invasion armed themselvese with old muzzle-loaders, scythes, and hay forks, and voluntarily patrolled the roads and forests. The Grand Duke was delighted to see some of them with the Germans whom they had captured. Bucharest, March 5. The Aiistrians have evacuated Czernowicz.

RUSSIAN AIRMAN'S EXPLOIT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 5. The Russian aviator who captured the survivor of an Austrian patrol party, having no other way of keeping the prisoner, tied him to the tail-frame' of tiie aeroplane, jettisoned his stock of bombs, and started back to the Russian lines, (lying over the Austrians amidst a storm of bullets. The airman noticed that the prisoner had loosened one, hand and was trying to cut the ropes with a knife. A blow on the, head stunned him, and the airman delivered his prisoner safely. GERMANS STARVING. OSWIECZ STILL STANDS. Received March 7, 5.5 p.m.

Potrograd, March 0. A semi-official despatch states that the Germans captured in Grodno were without bread for three days. There were numerous cases of gastric diseases. The fortress of Oswieez is successfully withstanding siege. In the Carpathians the Austrian attacks are everywhere becoming feebler. IRUESISIBLE RUSSIANS. _ SPRING CONDITIONS IN POLAND. Received March 7, 5.5 p.m. ' London, March G. The Times' correspondent at Petrograd says that between the Niemeu and th e Vistula the snow lias disappeared, and spring is in full sway. The battle lines are moving irresistiblyi towards German soil, and the Kaiser's staunchesl regiments cannot stem the tide. A REIGN OF TEKROR. Received March 7, 5.5 pm. London, March 0. Th;' Chronicle's Nove Silitza corres•pondent reports a reign of terror In Bukovina. Spies swarm the province, denouncing innocents for Roumanian sympathies, and extorting money by threats of denunciation. There have been wholesale executions at Czernowitz, and Austrians fled, fearing persecution. MASTERLY TACTICS. most n-iiunnc mountain BATTLE. , Receive I 7. 3.5 p.m Times and Sydney Sun Services. Lyndon, Mar;h A French military expert at Warsaw states that the Russian success at I'rnsiivtz opens the Prussian frontier at its most vulnerable spot. Forced marches by night and day through the snow rch':Hi d in a masterly envclopni'-iit, from i v-iuli the G--"-ii.r,ns were only a'i'e to extricate the remiavt of three army corps willi tin' greaiist difficulty. An observer in the <,'arpathians states that the nast terrific mount i i battle i;i the annals of the world is proceeding I among suow-elad precipices and uni exnloi'id words aiouml Thikla. ?ho >:i;o\v ' i:; .-o iVep that v.itn killed by b#yor.ct remain sv a; ding.