Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 10 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

A RAPID RETREAT. GERMANS BACK TO THE FRONTIER. AUSTRIAN'S STARVED AND SURRENDER Received March 10, 1.35 a.m. Petrograd, March 9. General Biehorn's army is rapidly retreating. He is now clear of Augustowo and within a dozen miles of his own border. The valley of the Niemon is also clear of the enemy, who have lost touch with the force operating against Osowiee. The Russians are making slower progress in the Mlawa region, where General von Hindenbcrg 4 has a large force guarding the communications. Twelve thousand prisoners from Galicia have been sent to Siberia. Four thousand Austrians in East Galicia were marching without food for three days. Before the commissariat arrived the Russians appeared, and tlie Amstriang hoisted the white flag and surrendered.

1 RUSSIA'S ATTACK DEVELOPING. AUSTRIAN BATTALION SURRENDERS. Received March 9, 10.30 p.m. » Petrograd, March 8. Official.—Our offensive at Suwalki is developing. Tlie German offensive at Pilitiza has been checked. By a countrattack we sur rounded an Austrian outflanking column in the Klause region, and ,a batttalion surrendered. GERMANS' SCARCITY OF AMMUNITION. BATTERIES' LIMITED "OUTPUT." Received March 10, 1.35 a.m. London, March 9. German prisoners state that the German batteries are restricted, to forty shots daily unless the general of the division otherwise directs. j THE MARCH TO BERLIN. HOW TIIE ROAD IS TO BE CLEARED. Received March fl, 5.30 p.m. London, March 9. Hie Paris Journal's correspondent at Petrograd describes the unshakeable de. termination of the Russians to expel the Germalis from the Masurian Lakes egion and to invest or besiege Konigsberg in order to clear the road for the march to Berlin, when they will compel the Germans to engage in a general battle.

THE BATTLE AT PRZASNZSZ. SUCCESSFUL GERMAN RUSE. Petrograd, March 8. The Russians on entering Przasnysz discovered that all the men between fifteen and sixty had been carried off by the Germans. Many peasants dressed in uniforms had been placed in the trenches as a ruse to make the Russians believe the Germans still occupied' them.- The enemy s breastworks were an extraordinW'y sight. They consisted of furniture, softs, beds, and, boxes filled with sand and stones. Princess Voroniecka's mansions in the vicinity of' Przasnysz were taken and retaken four times. Five thousand Russians occupied the estate before the last assault. There were Maxims in every house, and a murderous rain of hand grenades were dropped by the Prussians.