Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 9 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

another great battle. I developing. GERi'&ANS DRIVEN BACK.. ; AUSTRIAN. UNITS ANNIHILATED.-. Received 8, 9 p.m. PetrogTad, .March 8. An official communique states that the Germans have been driven back "behind the So-pozkinc-Lypsk front. There have also been further successes in the Mlawa region, where five hundred Germans were made prisoners. A great battle is developing near Pilica. The Austrians tried to cross to the right bank of the San, south.west of J.utnvisk. The • units which crossed Vcro annihilated.'

AUSTRO-GERMAN DEBACLE. PRAISE FOR PROHIBITION* ' Rome, March 7. The Austro-llungarian army, inßukovina, under two German generals, is i:> full retreat, and the men are deserting and being taken prisoners in hundreds. Times and .Sydney Sun Services. London, March 7. The Times' correspondent with the Russians has the proroundest belief in prohibition. The increased efficiency was first evidenced by the promptness of tlie army mobilisation. During the' period when money was tight deposits in the savings banks enormously increased. The correspondent adds; '"I have not seen during six months a tipsy officer or soldier. At one stroke Russia has paralysed peasant life for generations,"

j WHY lIINDENBERG FAILED. THE MADNESS OF MASSED FORMATION. Received 8, (5 p.m. Times and Sydney -Sun Services. A Russian artillery oillcer writes that "tlie Germans have pained a temporary advantage in East Prussia, If I had been in authority I would simply have hanged their commanders, because of their senseless and criminal sacrifice of troops. We drenched them, when they were charging in massed column, with shrapnel. Still they came on. Then we used ease shot, keeping up an incessant fire until tlie dead were piled in heaps. •'From three to four thousand fell in half an hour. Later a second attack was repulsed, and before dusk a third with tlie same result. The slaughter caused nausea. I marvelled at the stupidity of the efforts to face the fire, against Avhieh tlicv were powerless, and --vere swept away like the. ash from a cigarette."