RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

BIG OPERATIONS ON THE VISTULA.

AUSTRIANS STIFFENED BY GER-

MAN FORCES

DOUBLE ENVELOPING MOVE-

MENT ATTEMPTED

EAST PRUSSIAN FIGHTING

WOLVES ON THE BATTLEFIELD

(Received Oct. 15, 10.30 a.m.)

i PETROGRAD, Oct. 14

Official.—A battle commenced on Sunday on the left bank of the Vistula along the roads leading to Ivangorod and Warsaw. The Russian main force is holding the line from Sandomiez to Ivangorod (Russian Poland) against one and a-half million." Germans, including Landstrum and Landwehr brigades, and 270,000 Austrians. Every Austrian division is linked to a German corps, whereby it is hoped to give them the necessary stiffening.

The German line extends to Jaworow, north or Przemysl, but there has been only a tentative advance in Galicia, and the chief strength is in southern Poland, though German reports claim that, there were 40,000 Russian casualties near Przemysl.

The Austro-Germahs are trying to effect a double envelopment of the Russians in Galicia and at Lublin.

The German left was repulsed with heavy losses in a series <of sanguinary skirmishes at Skierniewice, East Prus-

During the fighting in a recent engagement at Ratehka there was a hand-to-hand fight between Don Cossacks and the Germans. The former swam a river and got behind the Germans, and were thus enabled to capture three thousand prisoners, complete batteries and eight armored motors. c

Fighting at Augustowo took place in a dense fog, and the Germans on several occasions advanced to the very muzzles of the Russian, guns.

During the fighting wolves were continually hovering round and pouncing on the dead and wounded. Stretcher bearers frequently fired on the wolves.