GERMANS DRIVEN BACK RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 7

GERMANS DRIVEN BACK RUSSIAN SUCCESSES

GREAT BATTLE DEVELOPING PETROGRAD, Bth March. An official communique states: — " The Germans have been driven back behind the _ Sopockinie-Lypsk front. (Lypsk is twenty miles west of Grodno, and Sopockinie twelve miles north-eas-. of Lypsk.) " We have also had further successes at Mlawa, where five hundred Germans were taken prisoner. , ' "A great battle is^ developing near the Pilica. " The Austrians tried to cross to the right bank of the San, south-west of Lutoviska (about twenty miles north- west of the Uszok Pass). The units which crossed were annihilated." AUSTRIAN UNITS ANNIHILATED The Premier has received the following from the High Commissioner :—: — LONDON. Bth March, 4.5 p.m. Petrograd reports :— -"The Russian offensive continues on the left bank of _ the Niemen- and north-west of Grodno, where the Germans have been driven back behind the Sopookinie-Lypsk front. s " In the Mlawa district the Russian attacks were crowned with success. Six hundred prisoners were taken. "On the left bank of the Vistula, in the region of the Pilica, the fighting is assuming the character of a great battle. "In the Carpathians, Austrian units crossed to the right bank of the San and were annihilated."