Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 315, 15 June 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

FURIOUS INFANTRY ATTACK. GERMANS ABANDON OFFENSIVE. RUSSIAN CAVALRY'S FIERY CHARGE. Received June 14, 11.5 p.m. Petrograd, June 14. , Official: There was desperate fighting on Saturday on the whole front between \ indava and Stcnta, on the Dubissa. Tho enemy north of Parasnysz, after heavy artillery fire, launched a furious infantry attack. Two German battalions were forced to abandon the offensive east of Mlawa railway, after heavy: losses. There was heavy fighting on the Bzura sector. Two divisions attacked, and the battle continues. On Saturday night the enemy in massed formation attacked the lower Labaczowka region of Misciska, but suffered heavy losses and did not resume the offensive. Our success at Zurawiro relieved the attacks on Haliez. On Friday night the cavalry, in a fiery charge near Zalesezuks against detachments which crossed the Dneister, sabred five hundred and took two hundred prisoners. HEROISM UNDER GAS. A CLEVER RUSSIAN RUSE. GERMANS SWEPT BACK. Received June 15, 12.55 a.m. Petrograd, June 14. There wore many incidents of heroism connected with the first use of gas in the eastern front. The Russians were ordered to remain quiet in the trenches Until the Germans, expecting to find the Russians stifled, crept up to the entanglements. 'Numbers of Russians fell asphyxiated after intense suffering. When the enemy appeared behind the death cloud, our rifles swept away the first ranks, and the remainder then retreated. Our machine-guns were worked with ft, soldier holding wet bandages to the punner's face until both died together. The first Russian trenches were practically filled with asphyxiated men, hut teserves Mine up, and avenged this wiit>.. the bayonet. Many Germans came entiling their own gas zone, and their shrieks in the throes of the. poison were horrible to hear. ..; -f,,. 1 THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL. SCENE OF GHASTLY CONFUSION. Received June 14, 5 p.m. Amsterdam, June 13. The Lokal Anzieger's correspondent visited Przemysl. Round fort No. 10 he saw piles of Russian corpses and crows Covering about. Russian prisoners were imployed to burn their comrades. German siege guns reduced the concrete . foundations of the fort to powder. Most the dead did not show wounds, but had died from the air pressure caused by the explosions. Many Russian heavy guns were blown to pieces, and fragments of steel and bodies of men and liorses lay together in ghastly confusion. RUSSIANS CAPTURE VILLAGES. A GERMAN PRINCE KILLED. Petrograd, June 13. Official: On the S'lavli-Beetcgola front we captured several villages. In the region of Starojebo a German violent attack failed a quarter of a mile from our trenches. In the region of Zurawno We captured 3-1S officers, 15,431 men, and much munitions and transport. On the Nesviska-Zalcstchihi front the enemy crossed the Dneister in several places, i Our torpedo boats destroyed the port »nd buildings at Samsoon and eunk tnany floating mines. A communique states that in the Caucasus 200 mounted Cossacks charged the trenches and, dismounting, sabred the Turks manning them. The remainder fled. Paris, June 13. Prince Ernst von Gingen has iboen killed in action on the Russian front. ENEMY'S IRREGULAR FRONT. Received June 14, 8 p.m. Petrograd, June 14. The enemy's new movement across the Dneister, owing to the twistings of the river, covers an irregular front of thirty miles. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. Received June 14, 11.5 p.m. Amsterdam, June 14. An Austrian official report claims that the. Austro-Germans captured Sicilian and afterwards stormed the vantage points northward of the town, capturing 3500 Russians; Our troops crossed .the Bukovina frontier and occupied several places in Bessarabia.