RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15501, 31 January 1916, Page 8

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

IN BUKOWINA. «> AN AUSTRIAN CLAIM. RUSSIAN TRENCHES CAPTURED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received January 30th, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 29. An Austrian communique says: "We captured a number of advanced trenches at Toporoutz." Toporoutz is east by north of Czernowitz, close to the frontier of Bessarabia. THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. FIGHTING LESS SEVERE. LONDON, January 28. Tlie Petrograd correspondent says the fighting in Bukowina is simmering down, and experts do not expect a revival of operations on a large scale. The enemy is industriously entrenching and laying railway lines. Czernowitz is being elaborately prepared for the defensive which, according to the German practice, may at any moment bccome an offensive. FIRE IN VILNA. MUCH DAMAGE DONE. (Received January 30th, 5.5 p.m.) PETROGRAD, January 29. A fire has been raging for several days in Vilna. The wooden quarters of the city have been consumed. A LITTLE HEROINE. STOR/ OF EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM. PETROGRAD, January 28. yi little girl, aged seventeen, has been awarded the Cross of Saint George. Twenty Germans marched, up to her father's farm.' in Courland, and the lieutenant threatened that she would be violated and the farm burnt unless she produced wine. The girl recalled two barrels of old liqueur in the cellar but before they . were brought she dropped in some' powder made from bluebells, which brings on drowsiness. The barrels were soon emptied, the Germans roiling on the floor one after another. The girl filled the bowj and gave it to the sentries, saying: "It is the lieutenant's order." Then, return- j ing she disarmed the Germans, and hid the weapons in the cellar while her father roped the limbs of the insensible men. Finally the girl traversed the swamps and summoned men from a Siberian outpost. With a few pails of ice cold water they woke up the Germans, who were horrified to find themselves prisoners.