RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 7

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS

GERMANS EVACUATE LODZ FEAR OF AN ENVELOPING MOVEMENT (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received December 22, 8.30 a.m.) v LONDON^ 21st December. A message from a, Berlin source announces that the Germans have evacuated Lodz, fearing an enveloping movement as a consequence of the Russians penetrating Prussia. SERIOUS ENGAGEMENTS (Press Association.) , PETROGRAD, 21st December. Official. — Serious engagements have taken place at certain points on the left bank of the Vistula and between the Bzura and the Rawka. We attacked two companies of the enemy, who crossed the Zzura near Dakhovo. Many of the enemy were taken prisoners, and quickfirers wefe captured. The Austrian sortie from Przemysl failed. We caught them on the flank and routed them, a number being taken prisoners. _ [The Bzura is a tributary of the Vistula, flowing up from the south and joining the Vistula thirty-five miles westward of Warsaw. The Rawka is a tributary of the Bzura, flowing into it from the south-east, fifteen miles south of the Vistula.] OFFICIAL, MESSAGE FROM BERLIN . _ .. _. , LONDON, 21st December. A Berlin official message states that the Russians tried to maintain themselves on the Rawka, and nearly everywhere attacked. It claims, also, that the Germans repulsed the Franco-British near La Basses. GREAT BATTLE DEVELOPING . rt « . . „, VIENNA, 21st December. Official.— We were successful on the Krosno and Zackliczyn front. At Mezolaborcz a great battle is developing. In the Lupkow Pass strong Russian forces appeared from Galicia. [Krosno and Zackliczyn are in Galicia, the former forty-five miles east of Przemysl, and the latter 18 miles ,east-south-east of Bochnia. Lupkow is a point on the railway which crosses the Carpathians by the Mezolaborcz Pass, and is ten miles (by rail) eastward of Mezolaborcz itself. It is about thirty miles south-south-east of Krosno.] ANNIHILATION OF GERMAN COMPANIES .... „ . , , , ■ PETROGRAD, 21st December. Umcial.—l he remainder of the two companies which were attempting to cross the Bzura River were annihilated. COMPLETE DEFEAT OF GERMANS DRIVEN BACK INTO EAST PRUSSIA (Received December 22, 10.50 a.m.) , ROME, 21st December, lhe Messageros Petrograd correspondent confirms the complete defeat of the Germans northward of the Vistula. The Germans were driven back into East Prussia. MOVEMENT AGAINST TRIPOLI ITALY DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION THREATENED RUPTURE OF RELATIONS WITH TURKEY (Received December 22, 8.20 a.m.) ' _, _ „ PETROGRAD, 21st December. The Bourse Gazette states that Italy demands of the Porte an explanation tor the movement of four thousand Arabs, under Turkish and German officers against Tripoli, and has threatened rupture of relations failing a satisfactory answer. J