Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 235, 13 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

A BIG CONCENTRATION. GERMANS "ON .THE WANE." Received March 12, 11 pjn. Petrograd, March 12. The Germans are concentrating half s million meu with tVe view of re-taking j' Przasnyisz. " General Oba, representing the Japan '' esc army on the staff of the Russiar 0 Commander-in-Chief, in an interview sail '' he wa<> convinced that the German ef forts passed the culminating point it "• Hindenberg's operations on the Warts 0 in December. Since then they had beei 0 on the wane, though they had partia! '• successes. T l .ie enemy was being swept l " away, and he expected peace withir six months. h ' -w 0 AUiSTRI ANS ANNIHILATED, n ■ Received March 12, 11 p.m. Petrograd, March 13. Official. —An obstinate battle continued at Simno, in t!i e vallevs- of the rivers Omuleff and Orjitez, in the direc tion of Przasnysz. Austrian units at Gorlitza were annihilated. "ON THE ROAD TO BERLIN!" ; ENEMY EXHAUSTED IN PRUSSIA. Paris, March 11. Official lists show that half the. Hungarian army is out of action. Many rcgi ments have lost 80 per cent. H.ELSINGFORS, March 11. The Tsar had a great popular reception, visiting the warships, also the Proj testant Cathedral. ' London, March 11. Vienna reports numerous successes over the Russians in Poland, Galicia, and the Carpathians. Besides inflicting great casualties, many hundreds have been taken prisoner. A correspondent a t Petrograd says that General von Hindenlmrg's boast that he did not mean to remain ill the Niemen valley will deceive few. It confirms the impression that long-headed Germans, despairing of success on the western front, have staked everything on the chance of victory over the Russians, if not by invasion of the Empire at least by barring our advance. The dis- , appointed' hosts are wending their way . homeward.s through the difficult lake . and forest regions under the most ter- . rible weather conditions. We are still ! on the road to Berlin and shall pursue . it when the proper time conies. In East . Prussia the enemy has obviously exhausted his offensive and in the Car- ' pathians lie still ad-ances with spasmodic vigour, but his attacks are invariably crushed.