In Poland.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1915, Page 5

In Poland.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGES. Germans claim uueat successes Paris, July 22. Zurich reports tliat five luib!-.;" I» O Ji.-li ladies in Vienna were convicted <>l espionage ami hanged l)y the neck. The judge who presided at" the trial was obliged to see the .sentence carried out. The spectacle was so harrowing ll u , t. he collated. M. Xadand, correspondent of the Journal de.s Ivi.ats, says that in jiuiiiorous J'„li s |, villages tile Hermans compelled tanners to watch their little girls outraged by bands of thirty or forty soldiers, led by officers. Several Ajoung girls escaped and drowned themselves" whereon the Hermans burned many house, and thrashed and buried alive il priest who interfered. la several places wounded Russians were tortured or drenched with petrol, shut in bams and burned alive.

l-e -Matin states that an army order 'was loiiiul on a Herman lieutenant, in which the Emperor Franz Josef ordered the 28th Regiment of the Jtoval Infantry to be erased from the list of th? army for .eternity, for cowardice and high treason in the face of the enemy .The order stated that those officers mid linen who remained would have to expiate this grievous fault with their blood. Two battalions of this Bohemian regiment .surrendered to a Russian battalion in the Dukla Pass in April without using their arms.

I'etrograd, July 22. The^ grouping of the Russian troops uti the Vistula to which- the communiques refer is understood to amount to :■ withdrawal to the left bank 'between the inflow of the P.zura and the town of Novo H'eorgievsk. Only one of the outlying works to the north of Xovo Georgiovsk so far has been in action against the Hermans, who are advancing on the N'arew. Prisoners of the lith Austrian Army Corps, captured on the Lublin-Choliii line, state that tli.v saw a huge common grave at Ruwaruska, where five thousand prisoners were buried after being shot in cold Mood. The crime indicates that Germany is feeling the pinch of tile strained' means of'communication. Amsterdam, July 22. A Herman communique states":— Our advancing troops north-east of Shavli captured 41.30 prisoners and five machine-guns. The irruption on the lower Dubissa resulted in the attackers entering the districts of Hrynkiskzi and Gndsinny. Several enemy positions were stormed. The Russians are n-r treating on tin' entire front from Lake Rakiewo to the Xiemen. We enlarged the breach in the enemy lines south of the Mariampol-Koyno road and gained further ground eastwards, capturing four officers, 121(1 men, and four machineguns.

The enemy on the Xarew discontinued u-eless coimtor-attiicks. The Russians south of the Vistula were pressed back into an enlarged bridgehead position. On the 'Warsaw front General von Wovrsch's army liy a bold attack frustrated the enemy's latest attempt to ar-re-t his retreat before Ivangorod. Our silesian troops, with the help of the Austrian*, at noon stormed \ the great bridgehead positions near Lagow and Lugownwola. The enemy's entire front was thrown into a fortress, which ia now closely invested. Yesterday the Austrian* north-west of Ivangorod captured 3000 prisoners and eleven maehine-guns. General Mackensen's battle between the Vistula and the Bug is proceeding.

THE FIGHT FOR WARSAW. INTENSE IXTF.REST IX ENGLAND. Kcocive.l July 23, 11.30 p.m. London, July 23. Tlic public is absorbed in.the struggle for Warsaw. A coimriunique shows that the Russians arc holding all vital point* on the front, and the essential railways arc still intact. Though the communiques mention fighting at Rejowiee Village, half a. mile from the CholmWangorod railway, critics point out that the Germans have not yet readied a point west of the Vistula. The Germans claim that they are investing Wangorod, but an Austrian official message admits they are still westward'of the Vistula, anil north, of the. fortress of Blouie. The line mentioned in a Petrograd official .message is 'about twenty miles west of the Vistula. General Mackensen's advance was arrested twenty miles south-west, and thirteen miles southj east, of Lublin, while Mackensen's centre is 'butting towards the railway, eight miles west of Cholm. Unless success is speedy. Mafk'ensen is bound to he troubled with a. shortage of supplies. A single German army corps consumes 250 tons daily, apart from ammunition, and fourteen army corps require 700 .motorlorries, assuming that a, doutiu! journey of 120 miles can be performed daily. ' General Mackonscn formed large magazines, during the pause in the fighting, at •Krnsnostaw early in June, but ha? onlv one good road. The "Morning Post's' Petrograd correspondent say. Unit if previous occasions furnish a precedent the stoppage of tile enemy on the Chodel-Piaski line is likelv to continue, and similarly the Russians will contrive to keep the enemy at a distance on the Xarew front. There is still no indication of Grand Duke Nicholas's intentions. Everything points .to a plan of holding up tlic enemv on one front and smashing him on (brother.

cermanys nightmare. FKYKMSH ANXIETY. lieeeivcd .Tilly 24, 12.2"> a.m. London, July 24. Tin' correspondent a'l'is that it is generally felt in I'etrograd that the situation is a. serious one. an indication thereof being the cui'tness of the bulletins, hut the public is confident of a successful issue. Berlin 'telegrams show that the battle for Warsaw is followed with feverish anxiety in Germany, where the dear of another winter campaign has become a nightmare among commercial classes. The general belief is that a crushing defeat of the Russians will enable Germany to dictate peace soon.

MORE KULTUR. CTODPICLSOUY ALCOHOLISM. licfeived July 23, 7 p.m. Paris, Julv 2.1. The [Paris Journal states that tiie Cermaiw are enforcing a system of compulsory alcoholism upon the Poles, exempting from war indemnities only those wbo purchase liquor from German establishments.