Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 236, 15 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

RUSSIANS REPORT SUCCESSES. PRUSSIAN HUSSARS EXTERMINATED). Received Mareh 14. 5 p.m. Petrograd; March 13. Official.—The Germans have assumed the offensive in the Seyny district. We annihilated parties which crossed the river south of Gorlitz, and also captured three companies of Austrians. W(. carried Lupkow and Smolgik and the surrounding heights by a flank attack, capturing (our guns, icveii maxims, and 40t)O prisoners. Cossacks exterminated three squadrons of Prussian Hussars at Niczwiska, East Galieia. SUDDEN GERMAN RETREAT. Received March 15, 1.30 a.m. IMCTROGRAD, March 14. 1 Official: Fierce snowstorms occurred in tin; Carpathians and Galieia. The situation is unchanged. A sudden and inexplicable panic occurred on the night of the lStTi among the Germans northward of Prasnysz and they retreated for four versts, abandoning quantities of rides and ammunition. ENORMOUS FORCES ENGAGED. GIGANTIC STRUGGLE FOR PRZASNYSZ. Petrograd, March 12. The concentration of half a million on either side near Przasnysz indicates a gigantic si niggle. A communique, .states that the Germans in the Pilica region brought \ip new troops and advanced guns into the open, in front of our trenches. The pinners were killed, but neither side wag able to remove the guns.