Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 295, 22 May 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

INTENSE FIGHTING. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. Received Hay, 21, H.:l(> p.m. 'i'etrogind, May 21. In the region of the confluence'of t : ie San and the Vistula- we pressvd the enemy successfully. In tile vicinity ol Jaroslay we are. pressing the 'Germans on both banks of the San. Enemy aeroplanes dropped -bombs on Przomy'sl. The fighting is particularly intense on the Lutkow-lwwossi sector,' where the enemy, at an enormous sacrifice, captured several of our advanced trenches. Wo continue to repulse tenacious attacks on the DrohoUvcz, Ktry ami DoUna front, inflicting immense losses. The operations west of Kolomia, on both hanks of the Pruth, continue to our advantage. KAISER'S NARROW ESCAPE. SHELL KILL'S HIS CIIATJFFEUR. Received May 21, 8.31)- p.m. Petrograd, May 21. (ieneva reports that the Kaiser and his staff were watching the operations near the river San when a shell burst among the staff's automobiles five hundred yards away, destroying several, including that'of the Kaiser," and-killing his chauffeur. The Kaiser left tile ear a few minutes previously.

ARTILLERY STORM. HEROIC RUSSIAN RESISTANCE. HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES. Receiv<cd March 21, 8.5 p.m. 'Petrograd, May l 21. Tim Russians near the San are" maintaining a '.icroic resistance under a terrible artillery storm. The Herman advance is packed in a do* phalanx of 150,01)0 men, upon whom the Russian artillery is inflicting heavy losses. The (iermans are sweeping every yard with forty batteries, of which half' the guns are of heavy calibre. Tin- first three 'days of the battle at Dunajec entailed <i(!,000 German casualties and 26,000 Russian casualties. NEW AUSTRIAN GUN. GREAT DESTRUCTIVE POWER. Received May 22, 12.50 a.m. Paris, May 21. According to the Vossiehe Zeitung, the Austrians ussd a new battery of fifty-two centimetre mortars at Tarnow. Tile first shot entirely destroyed a large tower at a distance of eleven miles. °A shell weighs a quarter of a ton more than the German seventeen-inch mortars.