HUGE LOSSES OF PRZEMYSL GARRISON.
REDUCED FROM 80,000 TO 25,000.
TERRIBLE LOSSES IN FINAL -SOBTEB.
(Received 2.50 p.m.)
PETROGRAD, March 22. Over half the garrison of Przemysl partook of a eort\e at dawn on Thursday. If was preceded by a tremendous artillery- attack, in which 30,000 ■hells -were thrown daily.
, The. Russians allowed the garrison within a short distance of their trenches, and then; the guns were brought to bear, and the 23rd JTonved Dhision, consisting of four regiments, was wiped, out, while six thousand
wer« taken. prisoner.?,.^
The Russians throughout were determined not to sacrifice lives, their casualties latterly numbering.only ten daily.
The garrison; estimated at eighty thousand in September, was only twentyfive thonsknd at'the time- of 'the capitulation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1915, Page 2
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