Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 291, 18 May 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

FRIGHTFUL GERMAN CRIME. WOUNDED KILLED ANT) BURNT. K< reived Mav IS, 12 5 a.m. I'ctrugr.id, Mav 17. Official: IVince Kurakine, special l!e>; Cross envoy at. the f n) „ t , telegraph, that the Cmuan cavalry, after (heir ;>r tilery had bombarded a station where our wounded were lying, finished them oil with carbine butts, and then spravod petrol mid benzine about and burned'tie, station and corpses. BLACK SEA FLEET ACTIVE. SIIYERAL STEAMERS SUXK. .Received May IS, 12.fi a.m. Petrograd, May 17. Ofhcial: The Kussian lilack Sea fleet on the 1011, destroyed four coal-laden steamers, two tugs, and twenty sailin" VOSSills. ° A-- loinbardment of Kefnine Ero"li and Kilemale was mad,,, and much damage was done.

AUSTRIAN HEIR WOUNDED. • CERMAVS C'LA'I.U VICTORIES. r , , fotrograd, Mav) 1(1. German oil,cers state that a bomb in a recent battle in the Carpathians exploded prematm-Wv. and th* splinters severely wounded the Austrian heir in -lie right leg. Austria, is strivi,,., to keep the incident-.secret. ~.,.. . , „„ Vicnnnv ilav Hi. OllieiaL- the Germans have occupied daroslav. The Austro-Ge.rimms under General von Lisingen are, on tli« WiHita south-west of Doling,. 20. miles- southeast of JStryj. AUSTIUANS CLAIM. VICTOKY. ■Amsterdam.; May l(i. An Austrian communique states- Our troops occupied Sambor,, southi of t rzemysl.