EASTERN STRUGGLE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 6274, 4 January 1915, Page 3

EASTERN STRUGGLE.

RUSSIAN FORCE.

Compels Austrians to Fall Back.

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Amsterdam, Jan d

A Viouna official message btatos :— After severe fighting south of Taruow the situation in the Central Carpathians is uow calm A superior hostile force obliged cur troops to fall back on Ukokpass

Huge German Army. Rec Jail 4, 12.45 a.ru Peti'ograd, Jun o

It i.-: estimated that t-weuty-seveu German army corps arc operatiug from the Mazurian Lnkes to Filica.

Rnssian Successes.

PctiugttU.l, Jau o Official.— Despite the cueuryo artillery \\v repulsed attacks ou Bzura and Rawka. Go Dee 31 the Germans capturee some trenches ne»r Lopuszuo, on th-Vlosgozowa-Krelee tuati. We touud teiiiUaokcd 1 heir n-ar hii«{ furcr<i them to jibau'.luu the occupied works We captured uiwi tuaehiue gt»i> aud several huudred prisoners. Fighting continues at Goriice.

We occupied an Austrian position atUzokjiis. Many prisoners were cap'urai Austrian Retreat. The Austrian retreat from Bukovina is developing into a rout. Consternation in Hungary. Rome, Jan 2 A message from Vienna states there |is consternation and alarm at a for- | midable Russian invasion in Norrh- : east Hungary. Tiie clergy, municipal authorities, and iaiiaiiitniits on tiie frontier are panic .stricken and fleeing to the interior. lice Jan" •!-, 6 oO am' London, Jau 3 The Aloruing Post's Petrograd correspondent says the fighting at Bolimoff, Poland, ended disastrously for the Germans. The Russians have split the Austrian and German armies iu Wast Galicia into three sections. Aviators Captured. Perrograd, Dec 3 A German aeroplane was brought down at Wystegrod, ou the Vistula, ou Friday and two aviators captured. Von der Goltz Moved. Amsterdam, Jan -') General von der Goltz has gone to the Caucasian front. German Version. Amsterdam, Jau 3 A Ge.iman communique says great losses were inflicted on the Russians. The German offensive east of Rawa j slowly progressed. I