RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 7

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

MUCH FIGHTING HAS TAKEN PLACE GERMANS RETREAT * --i i ii s PETROGRAD, 26th October. A semi-official message says that there has been much fighting between Radom and Iva'ngorod (fifty miles south of Warsaw). When the Russians pursued the Germans they found many Austriana among the retreating force. Evidently the German corps operating in thiß region have been strengthened by * Austrian infantry brigades, upon whom the Germans impose everywhere the task of rearguard fighting, thus succeeding in sparing their own troops. The heaviest fighting has been allotted to the Ist Polish ahd 6th Hungarian Corps. SPLENDID RUSSIAN CAVALRY WORK • (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) • PETHOGRAD, 25th October. The Bourse Gazette emphasises the splendid services of the Russian cavalry in the "Vistula Operations. In the regions of Poitrkow and Sieradz they destroyed several German cavalry regiments, including King Wilhelra.'s Cuirassiers, the most honoured in Prussia, which was wholly wiped out. A Uhlan regiment likewise perished. [Sierada is thirty miles south-east of Kalisz, which is on the GermanRussian frontier. Poitrkow is about thirty miles south-east of Sieradz, and ninety miles south-west of Warsaw.] GERMAN PRISONERS ARRIVING AT WARSAW LONDON, 25th October. \ The Paris Figaro states that large convoys of German prisoners are arriving at Warsaw. Amongst them is a Gel-man General, who brought his troops the gifts which were sent to them by the Kaiser. (Press Association.) SERIES OP DEFEATS INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY PETROGRAD, 26th October. Official.— -The Russians inflicted a series of defeats on the German rearguards, while attempting to retain positions along the Rivers Rawka, Skierniewka, and Rylka. The Russians, by means of bayonet attacks, occupied Lowicz, Skierniewice, and Rawa. The Austro-German forces, retreating towards Radom, have been reinforced, and are stubbornly resisting the Russian progress. The fighting here has assumed considerable dimensions. The Russians captured prisoners, and Maxim and other guns. Hard fighting continues on the San River, south of Przemysl, where the " Austrian 'attempts to belt the Russiah dank were repulsed with heavy loss. A column w«hich descended the Carpathians towards ©olina was defeated and dispersed. J [Lowicz, Skierniewice, and Rawa are all to the south-west of Warsaw, and occupy a line thirty miles long, running in a north-westerly direction from Rawa, which is forty miles south-west of Warsaw. Lowicz and Skiorniewice are both on railways from the city to Lodz. Radom is forty miles south-east N of Rawa. Dolina is about twenty * miles from the crest of the Carpathian range, and is twenty-two miles south of Stryi.]