Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

SOME RECENT' OPERATIONS. i. • Til 15 GERMAN'S' BIGGEST EFFORT. GERMANS ATTACK HOSPITALS. HEAVY RUSSIAN LOSSES. RUSSIANS FIRMER THAN EVER. Received June IS, 9.15 p.m. rr , „ . London, June IS. ■the hussian Eyewitness, covering the period .May 3to .May 18, s aUl Germany's counter-stroke to tin; Russian advance in the Carpathians was carelully prepared, and was the biggeHt eftort yet made to crumple up the Kus.si.in attacks, which throughout were princ - pally confined to intense artillery won;, and the whole of the areas were'covered wit-j s.iclis till the trenches and men were levelled out of existence. After pounding out the troops by artillery the Germans advanced in close formation, 'but in almost every instance the inJantry attack's were abortive. Nearly all our regiments suffered great loose's by the shell-fire. Enemy airmen delivered intermittent and violent bombardments, and our hospitals had to be removed rearwards. At one advanced bandaging point German soldiers, raging drunk, hurst in and bayoneted a doctor. Nine shells fell on a hospital. At another point one struck an operating room and wound.'d a lady doctor. .Some of the German troops engaged against our third army were reserve divisions from the neighborhood of Verdun. The Austrians kept up a ceaseless and futile cannonade and hardlv/ placed the Russians' battery, and their progress in range-finding was expensive. It was a different story when the Germans took the initiative. The difference in accuracy between the Austrians and Germans was soon clear. Tile Russian regiments suffered terribly. The right wing of the Russian advance in the Carpathians was outflanked and bad to come backward. Half the corps rectified its position without serious loss, but the other division experienced the greatest difficulty in fighting its wav through and lost heavily- , n TV Germans scored a big success of technique and wiped out a good number of lives, but still the Russians are firmer than ever and more and more men are pouring in. During the retreat towards the San tile enemy airmen were übiquitous. At one time ten flew over our lines, and three were brought down and the occupants killed. DECISIVE BATTLE COMING. WILL MINIMISE EARLIER FIGHTING. AN ACTION IN LAKE COUNTRY. Received June IS, 8.;; p.m. 1 London, June IS. Renter's Petrograd correspondent says the Galieian forces are advancing along the San towards Lemherg. It is hardly an exaggeration to describe the earlier fighting, though it cost tens of thousands of lives, as mere outpost affairs compared with what is to come. The Russians had none the worst of the exchange of fighting at Moseiskn, which served the. purpose of delaying the German advance pending a final concentration on .positions further eastward. A decisive battle is likely to be fought at Grodek, where the Russians will benefit by tho lake country. ] FIGHTING IN GALICIA. SEVERE ENGAGEMENTS CONTINUE. ENEMY CIIE('KEI) ON THE DNEISTER. Received June 10, 12.50 a.m. Petrograd, June 18. i Official: Very severe engagements in 1 Galicia were continued on the. 15th be- 1 twceii the San and the town of Lubaczow, and in the vicinity of the village of Krakowice. The enemy was thrown back in disorder between the Dsnienitw and Stryi Rivers. Our notable captures nboye Zuraiio oil the 1-Uh and lath were 202 officers. 85-14 men, six guns, twenty-one machine-guns, and ammunition. We annihilated the enemy force which ] crossed t lie Dneister above Niziow, and I checked another force which crossed be- ' low. Eighting continues. We pressed the enemy between the '' Pruth and the Dneister on the Kith. ' c MINES IN ARCTIC OCEAN. (Times ami Sydney Sun Services.) Received June IS, (>.20 p.m. London, June 17. Hie Swedisli Consul at Archangel has warned the Government th'at the Arctic S Ocean is sown with mines by the Germans, to hinder munitions reaching Russia. AiN AUSTRIAN REPORT. Received June IS, Ift p.m. ] Amsferdam, .lune IS. 1 An Austrian official report says: On C the l.embcrg road to Ei'niolli we repulsed -I strong rearguard attacks and stormed ■: t nt midnight the west part of Grovek. We cleared on I the en 'iny from the West t hank of the'Were.szyca, south of Grooek. h AUSTKf !-i! EI!.MAN tiIIITS. s London, .lune 17. '' Mill workers in Moscow, enraged by ihe stories ol' Genniui barbarities and ' ittacks by means of gas. raided the '' houses of malingers of German origin. 11 Hinting ensiled and great damage was * lone.