RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15139, 1 December 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

STRUGGLE IN POLAND,

STUBBORN FIGHTING PROCEEDING. GERMANS - ENORMOUS LOSSES. (Received November 30th, 7AS p.m.) PETROGRAD, November 30. An official statement says: ''Between tho Vistula and ihe "Warta the Germans continue to maintain a fortified position on the Strykow-Zgicrz-Scha-dek-Zdunskawola lino. Fighting is very .stubborn in the Strykow-Zgierz district, where wo havo captured cannon, machine-guns, and several hundred prisoners. "Wo engaged the enemy on tho Giowno-Bieiiawy-Soboia front. The Germans aro counter-attacking en tho left bank of tho Vistula. ''Prisoners describe the German losses as enormous. Many battalions lost all their officers. "Tho Anstrians eastward of Cracow were defeated and pursued. "Wβ ca P" tured twelve hundred men in tho Carpathians. "Tbo Russians, in several districts in tho vicinity of the Mnzurian lake*, and Agcrap river (East Prussia), drove back the Germans to fortified positions." [Tho nr&t- line mentioned in the above message is in the shape of a crescent, curving from Strykow, which is between Lodz and Lowic'z. to Z/lunskawola. miles t,cuth wost of lx>dzThe Russians apparently hold Glowdo, the souChern end of the other line, is » few miles north-ea.st °* Strykow, and tb* lino li,> s west ox Lowicz. which alro seems to bo i« luo JX'issiaas' hands.j

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. AMSTERDAM. November 29. It is. oflir;nily stated at Berlin:— 'The situation on the right bank of Vistula is unchanged. ••"V\V- reputed attacks in thf> region of Ixxlz. *t»d our counter-attacks, were su γ-ccs-nil. PAXIC IN NORTHERN AUSTRIA PKOPLE WANT PEACE. i'Tin.'j" i"d "hyincy Sun" S«tt),-cs ) LONDON. November 29. A traveller from Vienna say- tiiat- there is panic through tho whole oj Northern Austria. The people declare that ihe xiltimatiim to Servia was ''li'atlo '» Germany." ! Austria adopted Germany's scheme- oiw the as,iir;iic!. t that it would be carried out without Avar. The Aii.sirians wish, for pfiif-o. and are willing to yield up Galicia :o obtain it. The Polish Party demands* the (surrender ol Cracow befr.ro it is bombarded in order to spare the city from destruction. CZERNOVriTZ OCCrPIED. < PETROGRAD. November 20. I The Austrian* hnvo ,ibandcncd Czernowitz, which the Russians occupied after a fiorce bombardment. fCzoriiowitz is a thriving to'vn of 70,'XiO inhabitants, capital of tho Austrian Crown land.s of Hukovir.a, and 87 miles ft.E. of T<*rnonol 3 in Eastern (Jalifia. It is a cpntro of trado ivith Moldavia and Bessarabia.] TO HELP SEBYJA. RUSSIAN FORCES SENT VIA THJi DANUBE. ("Times" and "Svlney Sun" Services.) LONDON, November 2!.'. It is reported tbat fifteen Russian regiments, with seventy bargelcads of ammunition and stores, have arrived at Raduycvityi, on the Danube, in Servia. UE3T3UN& IS THE GERMANS. STARVING AND FROZEN UNITS SURRENDER. CAPTURES OF AUSTRIAN'S. (Received December Ist. 12.10 a.m.) . PETROGRAD. November 30. The "Novoc Vremya" says that the enemy, pressed mi all sides, is striving to forco ;i way to Strykoxv through a steadily narrowing corridor. Tbo Ruseian occupation of Brzeziny prevents escape via KoluszUi and- Strykow. Tho wall of the corridor beeu moved westward and alonji it. between Brzczinv and Glowno, the Co&sacks are attacking tho German flanks. Despito tho enemy's high valour and tactical ekill, his efforts in this region are destined to be futile. Entire battalions of half-frozen, starving Germans have been separated from their unite in tho Lodz district, and have willingly surrendered. It is estimated that tho Austrians captured since tho 9th on tho Raba and in tho Cracow districts, number 58,000. LONDON. November 30. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent reports that tho surrounded Germans, except a captured division, broko through one sido of tho Russian trap, but are etill imperilled. GERMAN LOSSES. (Received December Ist. 1.10 a.m-)' LONDON, November 30. The "Daijy News" Petrograd correspondent says, that tho number of Gentians killed in tho ten days' battle between the river Bzura and Lodz is estimated at a hundred thousand.