Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 308, 7 June 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

FIGHTING NEAR THE SAN. THE GERMANS IX RETREAT. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. Received June C, 3.20 p.m. Petrograd, June 5. Official: We gained further success .on the left bank of the San, partiou larly westward of Rubnik,* and wo con tmued to drive ibadk the enemy, whi are in disorderly retreat. The enem; on the right bank of the San continue' to attack in the Wiszna vajloyi, an( fighting continues. We inflicted enormous losses on "tin enemy at ICrukience, between Przemys and the Dneister, driving him hack Our troops 'between the rivers Tisteics and • Stryi are hampering the enemy't progress, and tho enemy fell 'back or the Dneister bridge-head. The enemy on Wednesday night attempted to rush our entrenchments, but they were repulsed, abandoning heaps of 'bodies outside the trenches. We, counter-atta«kmg at night, took seven hundred prisoners, including several officers, and captured soma ma-chine-guns. LATEST RUSSIAN REPORT. FURIOUS GERMAN ASSAULTS. RUSSIANS REPULSE ATTACKS. STRUGGLE FOR A VILLAGE. ACTION AGAINST TURKS. Received June 7, 12.15 a.m. Petrograd, June 6. Official: In the Caucasus we repulsed a Turkish attack, killing four hundred in the region of Meliazghert, and also made a simultaneous attack on Ayidjeras. Our cavalry penetrated to Ayldjcraz and killed with sabres some hundreds of. Kurds. Our ships exchanged shots with a large German naval force in the Gulf of Riga. The Russian offensive on the lowei San has developed successfully. Wt

forced the 14th Austrian Army Corpa - to fall back to fortified positions be- . tween the the San. Fighting for these .positions was continued on Friday, when we took a thousand prisoners. Large German reserves on the left tank of the Leng made three furious attacks, and all were repulsed. The enemy on the 3rd inst. captured the village of Starzawa, on the left bank of the Wiszuia. Our counterattack dislodged the enemy from the village, but the enemy maintains him,self on the neighboring heights. The enemy continued attacks on the 3rd ,inst. against our bridge-heads on the Dneister, between Tysmenica and Stryi and the Mikolajew railway. The at•taeks were repulsed with bayonets and hand grenades. The fighting continues. A STORY OF CRUELTY. WHAT A CHAPLAIN SAW. Received June 5, (i 30 p.m. Petrograd, .June 4. • A chaplain narrates that many Gorman regiments took no prisoners and bayonetted both the wounded and the doctors attending them. On one occasion they entered a burning wood, whence a Russian battalion had retired all surrounded by (lames. On another occasion German cavalry, ( capturing a Russian company, took them • into a space, where the whole regiment held a competition cutting them do at. 1 and butchering them to the last man. f Germain airmen threw bombs on children 1 gathered around a road Ikon, ae.d ' many were killed. Austrians often vainly protested at German barbarities; The 1 chaplain adds that German patrols in * several villages in the Pratzk districts took every hundredth inhabitant fro'.n his house, and threatened to shoot them unless the inmates delivered all their provisions, to the last loaf. EVENTS NEAR THE DNEISTER. DESPERATE RESISTANCE. 1 t RUSSIANS PUSHING FORWARD. < _____ e Received .Tune 5, 5 p.m. Amsterdam, •Tune 4. t A correspondent of the Berlin paper, j the Lokal Anzeigcr, in Galicia, telegraphing on Wednesday, said the greatest importance attaches to the events on the Dneister. north of Stryj. The enemy are still holding out tenaciously north-eavt of the Samhor, where there are sevenfold lines of defences. There is an equally desperate resistance against part of General Mat-ken- i: sen's force moving eastward from Rady- r mo. The Russians are similarly pushing forward from the Vistula-San corner, hoping to influence the battle in the middle of Galicia. Ii RUSSIANS ON DEFENSIVE. li ci LACK OF MUNITIONS. a Received June 7, 12.15 a.m. ei London, June (i. v Petrograd reports t ! iat the fall of a Przemysl emphasises the necessity for a „ greater supply of munitions and equipment, -which the Russian industries are unable to provide single-handed. Hence Russia must assume the defensive till j, these arrive, holding the enemy's forces rj 'on the Russians' front. ], SUBDUES THE INFLAMMATION. j l . Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the medicine to relieve bronchitis. It removes the difficulty in breathing, re- a lieves the cough, eases the pain and by / v producing a free and easy expectoration t subdues the inflammation. Chamberlain's j Cough Remedy is soothing and healing, f and assists Nature to throw off the dis- j ease and builds up the system so as to avoid future attacks. Sold by all chom- J is.ts and storekeepers. <

<»[ REJOICINGS OVER PRZEMYSL •h I ~ ~

n IMPORTANT MOVE REPORTED, d Received June fi, 2.] 5 p.m. I Amsterdam, Jane 5. There are great rejoicings in Berli and Vienna over the re-occupn tion of Przemysl. It is note 1 was promptly followed by the stric closing of the Belgian frontiers, a ste .usually presaging a great movement c German troops. Petrograd corr<'.spon< ents jioint out that Germany hopes t ■ re-transfer large forces to Slanders i she is able to push the Russians -luc. sufficiently to render the movemen safe. German airships dropped asphyxiatin gas bombs on tlie Bzlra-Itawka frontiei "BOOTY NOT YET SURVEYED.' A GERMAN REPORT. Received Jiuie fl, 2 p.m. Amsterdam, June 5. A German official.report says: Aftei fighting we reached tlie villages al j 'Przemysl. The 'booty lias not yet beet - surveyed. General von Marwitz stormeii . the heights on both sides of Mystatvezc ) and Linsingen, and is about to cross ' tho lower Stryi, north-eastward of the i town of Stryi. [ j PRZEMYSL BUT AN INCIDENT. RUSSIA IS LEFT CALM. Received June 5, 5 p.m. Petrograd, June 4. The fall of Przemysl has been received with wonderful stoicism by all classes, and is regarded as a mere episode in a great and complicated struggle. The loss is. considered temporary. Experts declare that sound generalship could not risk a l-i rge Russian force being cut oil' in the fortress, especially as the everincreasing concentration of Austrians and Germans towards Stryj shows a determination to force a way to Lemberg at all costs. THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL. THE RUSSIAN STATEMENT. 'Petrograd, June 4. Tlie Russians -southward- of Libau have deprived the Gel-mans of the possibility of advancing by cutting off Libau from Newmenid. Other detachments are enclosed at Libau. The Germans' only outlet is seaward. Oflieial.—Wo have been for some time removing gradually from Przemysl various material taken from the Austrians. This work was completed and wo removed the last during the battle on Tuesday, and evacuated the town on the following night in conformity with orders. ■ A position on the west end nortll fronts has been formed with moTe concentrated force. On the Vast the enemy concentrated very large forces in the vicinity of Stryj and made progress on the Tismoutza front, though with very great losses. We captured a thousand men in counter-attacks. In the Caucasus our troops pursued ttye Turks from Mangliehv and reached tlie

villages of Eakowzaklia. whence we repulsed them to the west anil south. THE KAISER'S CONGRATULATIONS. Received June 7. 12.15 a.m. Lomftin, June (!. The Cologne Gazette savs the Kaiser arrived at the Austrian headquarters on the 4th inst. to congratulate the Archduke Fralerich on the capture of Przemysl; ,i

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