WINTER WARFARE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15120, 9 November 1914, Page 7

WINTER WARFARE.

DEAD UNBURIED AND WOUNDED PERISH.

GERMANS PREPARING FOR A STAND.

(Received November Sth, 10.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD," November 7. The Russians in Ea-st Prussia occupy a line from Schirvindt to Lyok. Thousands of German dead remain unburiod in many districts, because the I ground is frozen- The Germans havo everywhere abandoned tho wounded, aud "tho resources of the Russian Medical Corps aro heavily taxed in dealing with them. The practice of.not permitting an armistice for Hie removal of wounded causes many deaths from exposure by night time. the Germans in Poland are steadily withdrawing to strongly-fortified positions on the Czenstochowa-KaHseh line. There, with Breshui a* 'a base, tho Germans have accumulated stores, proposing to remain on the defensive during the winter. Ail the towns which tbo Germans have traversed have been wrecked, and Jtiie.j-ailwn-r rri-W-' 'l'_________j_______________

the Germans, on leaving Radoni, shot all their prisoners, including a Cossack officer, who wa> compelled to dig his own grave. The Pauline Monastery was held as a hostage for the inhabitants' good The threat to burn tho building.", which ar<> famous for the pilgrimages made to them, strikes at the religious sentimeats ot the whole of Poland. The monks, who wero expelled, have arrived in the Russian lines. They report that the monwas prepnred as a residence for the Kais-or. Furniture was broughtfrom Germany, and rooms, prepared for a staff of sixty.