Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

RUSSIANS ADVANCING. AUSTRIANS RETREATING AND DESTROYING.

FORTIFIED HEIGHT CAPTURED.

Received March 29, 12.5 a.m.

Official.—We considerably progressed in the direction of Bartfeld, the Austrians, when falling back, burning the village of Rori, westward of Dukla Pass. We carried a fortified height eastward of Ravorwetz, near Baligorod, and repulsed large forces near Konziwka, taking 2500 Austrian prisoners, besides forty officers.

RUSSIANS BURNED ALIVE. HORRORS FROM POLAND. Received March 29, 12.5 a.m. The Hague, March 28. Germans in Poland carry metal knapsacks containing inflammable liquid. Twenty Russians were burned alive in one night. A VIOLENT ENGAGEMENT.

AUSTRIANS CLAIM A WIN.

Received March 29, 12.5 a.m.

Vienna, March 28.

Official: After a violent engagement north-cast of Czernowitz we drove back superior forces, capturing a thousand prisoners and two guns.

LAST DAYS OF PRZEMYSL.

RECAPTURE OF MEMEL

BURNING FORTS ILLUMINATE THE

SCENE.

THE WHITE FLAG AT LAST.

Received March 29, 12.5 a.m.

iPetrograd, March 28,

After the Russian artillery oh March 21 had razed the inner fortifications of Przcmysl, the garrisons asked General Kusmanek for instructions. He replied: "Die at your 'post!" New guns were hurriedly placed on the ruined forts, but these were quickly destroyed by the accurate Russian fire.

In the evening the Russians gained the first line of the fortifications. The searchlights were not used, everything being plainly visiblcTn the crimson glow of the burning fortress. The inner forts still resisted, despite the fact that the ground wag shaken every few minutes by the explosion of magazines. By dawn the Russians had penetrated the inner line of forts, and General Kusmanek ordered the blowing up of the remainder. At five o'clock the Russians swarmed towards the fortress, and the white flag was hoisted.

THE GERMAN VERSION.

Berlin, March 2(1.

Official. —The Kaiser's son. Joachim, with strong forces, expelled the Russians from Memel. The Russians lost 150 killed, 500 prisoners and three cannon. Russians traversing tlie coast of Poland suffered severely from the gun-fire of German cruisers.

RUSSIAN RAIDERS DEFEATED.

Received March 28, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 27.

A German official message states tlint the Russians attempting a raid on Tilsit were defeated with heavy loss. (Tilsit, a town in East Prussia, on Hi" left bank of the Memcl.)

AUSTRIANS FIGHTING GAMELY. CARPATHIANS A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

WHY PRZF.MYSI/S FOOD RAN SHORT.

Received March 2R, 5.5 p.m.

l'ctrograd, March 27,

The Austrians are lighting with surprising stubbornness in the Carpathians, contesting every yard, and using every expedient. The woods are filled with, barbed wire and wolf traps, and machincgijns are concealed on the summits of steep ravines. The crack German 21st Corps in East Prussia now largely consists of raw toops. many ignoant of the use of arms, and more dangerous to themselves than to the enemy. Pizernysl was provisioned for forty thousand, but a hundred thousand of the retreating army were shut up in the fortress, and unable to escape. Thus the stocks were exhausted.