HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE POLISH FRONTIER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE POLISH FRONTIER.

I GERMANS BRING GREAT FORCES INTO FIGHTING LINE. { REPULSED NEAR FLOCK WITH HEAVY LOSS. * WELLINGTON, March 10. The Prime Minister has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner: — i Petrograd reports that along the whole of the front between the Nienieu and the Vistula the fighting on Monday was of an extremely desperate character. The Russian cavalry captured part of a supply column. The artillery of the Osowiec fortress, between Grodno and Lomza, ! successfully engaged the enemy's siege batteries. South of Chorzelle—north of Prasnysz, on the Polish-Prussian frontier—. the enemy is bringing great forces into the fighting line. Near Drobin, north-east of Plock, the Germans were repulsed with heavy loss. Further west, on the left bank of the Vistula, the action was alternately offensive and defensive. Here the Russians captured prisoners and machine-guns. In the Carpathians, in the region of Baligorodi .40 miles south-west of Przemysl, the Austrians continue their offensive, notwithstanding crushing losses. Near Studente, the enemy took the Russians' advanced trenches and two battalions. North-east of Klausse, the Russians took as prisoners the " remnants of an Austrian column. Near Kozsouvka, south of Lemburg,"* the Russians regained all the positions captured by the enemy, after a desperate battle on Sunday. BOMBARDING THE DARDANELLES. OPERATIONS HINDERED BY BAD WEATHER. FRENCH ADMIRAL'S NARROW ESCAPE. •{Received 11.10 a.m.) 1 PARIS, March ro. It i» officially announced that the super-Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth, with four battleships supporting her, bombarded Rumili, inside the Dardanelles, on Monday. Bad weather hindered the operations. The French warship Suffren advanced to the edge of the minefield, and Admiral Gueprattc had a narrow escape from being struck by fragments of a shelL ,