Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 242, 22 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

RUSSIANS TAKE MEMEL. TRIUMPH .OF RUSSIAN ARMS. Received March 22, 12.5 a.m. . Jetrograd, March 21. OHicial: Memel was captured after s i fighting, in which the inhabitants participated. The Germans, attacking in close order near Mvsyiiiec, north-eastward of PrzeZ yal !* cre r( ) u ted with enormous losses, lhe thirty-ninth Houved Division was severely defeated southward of Ciezkowice, in Galicia. A sortie from Przeinysl was driven back with serious losses. (Memel, a seaport town in East Prussia, only a few miles from the Russian frontier Its trade is valued at' over annUn '- P °P l,latio » RUSSIANS AGAIN INVADE GERMANY. rur ; . t, March 19. ' Official.—Battles are proceeding ok German territory, near Kurogren The yumans accuse the Russians of -burni g villages, and have ordered reprisals on Russian villages in their possession a „ . Amsterdam, March 19. „ Ber!m meSßa ge states that dlvision has enured 1 and 1 that counter measures have ooen taken.

situated in East Prussia, on the Baltic Sea.)

aw • i London, March 19. Official.—Tlie guns at Przemvsl continue to fire a thousand heavy projectiles daily with little effect. " There is fierc e fighting for the possession of villages on the right bank ot the Narcw. Tliey_continually change Hands, a here is murderous machine gun fighting m the daytime and desperate bayoneting at night. The German Tosses ! n ca reg'on since the sth amount to 25,000. -

Copenhagen, March 19. The President of East Prussia declares that the 'Russians destroyed eighty thousand houses, and that agriculture is in an absolutely desperate condition. Scarcely GOOO out of 100,000 horses are left. RAPID RUSSIAN ADVANCE. GERMAN FRONTIER GUARDS; SURPRISED. Received March 21, 5.55 p.m. Amsterdam. March 10. The Russians advanced so rapidly on the German frontier that t'i<. miards lost heavilv before taking refuge in Memel fortress. STILL KILLING. AN ARTILLERY SURPRISE. Received March 21, 3.40 p.m. Petrograd, March 20.. Official.—A Russian squadron approached the Bosphorus and caused a panic in Constantinople. We captured Vysel, on the left hank of the Niemen.

We repulsed a counter-attack in the Volyi region. The Germans hcavv infantry ■losses. They sent four divisions of cavalry through the marshes to support their infantry and envelop the main flank. Our artillery suddenly, attacked, killed and wounded most, and dispersed the remnant.