Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

ENEMY OFFENSIVE STOPPED. ATTACKS REPULSED IN DISORDER. RUSSIANS' RESERVES FELT. Received July 9, 12.5 a.m. Petrograd, July 8. The enemy was repulsed in complete | disorder in the Urzcndow district. The enemy lias been compelled to pass to the defensive along the road between Krasnik and the Rivers Bystrietza and Kossajevke. We captured two thousand prisoners and several l/iachine-guns. The enemy was compelled to suspend the offensive between lvainionka and Gliniany, suffering severe losses. A Vienna official report admits the battle northward of Krasnik became fiercer owing to the participation of strong Russian reserves. NEW GERMAN TROOPS. Received July 9, 12.5 a.m. London, July 8. The Daily Express' Geneva correspond-' ent says it is reported Germany on Aug-' ust 1 will place a million men in the 1 field, chiefly the Landsturm who have never served, and elderly reserve* and wounded troops who have recovered. A large 'part have been sent.to the Russian front to relieve the exhausted Germans there. Eighteen army corps hare been, in training and getting equipped for six months.

RUSSIANS ATTACK. PHHIBLE ENEMT LOSSES. Received July 8, 0.20 p.m. * Geneva, July 8. A telegram from Lemberg statei th» Austriana and Germans pursuing the Russians on the Vistula sustained terrible losses as a result of a counterattack thirty metres north of Tomanzovv, where the Russians felf on th« riplit flank of the enemy, routing a whole division and taking two thousand prisoners, also capturing numerous guns. Thousands of wounded troops are continually arriving at Jaroslav, Przomysl, and Lomberg.

OPERATIONS IN BOSPHORUS. TURKISH VESSELS SUNK. Received July !!, 1.5 a.m. Petrograd, July 8. Official: Our destroyers in the Bospliorus concentrated hoary and accurate lire upon an enemy submarine, wbioh dived, its fats being unknown. We sank five Turkish sailing vessels and four galleys. eonl-laden, and bound for Constantinople.

PLOT TO TAKE WARSAW. A TREACHEROUS RUSSIAN. • FAILURE .OF THE, PLANS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received July 8, 0 p.m. London, July 7. 'J'l'.a hanging of Colonel Mjas'oodoff lias revealed a German plot to take /Warsaw by tlie spying and treacliory of iljasoedoff. When in the gendarmerie Mjasocdoff was employed on the frontier station of AVirballcn, close to the Kaiser's shooting-box, and he was a frequent guest at the Kaisor'a private table. Having charge of passports, Jljasoedoff enabled swarms of Germans to penetrate Russia, and an extensive contraband trade was discovered, lljasoodoff was dismissed, and lie went to a famous German watering-place. Thanks to female intrigue lie emerged with the rank of colonel, and was n|ipointed to the' interpreter's staff operating against East Prussia. This gave him access to the most confidential information. A bridge was burned at a critical moment on the Vistula, and the explanation did not fit the facts. Aviator? ascended without proper instructions, and finally Cossacks caught two men taking German copies of tho Russian orders for the day. Th:- canm day Russians were celebrating a feast where it was fairly certain tbat staff officers and corps command l ers would foregather. Several had assembled, when a Herman officer appeared at the duor n:r ii: *. "CSpntlcmen, villi are nv |:r!..:.t rrv' A i a'.irm TVOS given, air' --le : r '•• • -U in his

night-cloth. ■ The coi;:. 1. It Was intended to .arturc the r> s;ior officers and surround the Tenth Army, and by a lightning dash to rush on 'VYars'aw. Mjusoedofl' was arrested, and when confronted with the evidence lie confessed. The aviator who carried the messages was seized, and other arrests followed, stretching ba»k to Petrograd. Thus a gigantic system of espionage was "scotched."