HEAVY FIGHTING.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 3

HEAVY FIGHTING.

THE PRASNYSZ VICTORY

HOW THE RUSSIANS TURNED

THE TABLES

Loudon, March 6

The Germans, in superior numbers, almost surrounded the Russians at Prasnysz. They enclosed them as with the blades of shears, with the handle at Lyekovo. The Russians turned the tables on February 24, when they captured Krasnioltz, boat back the German left to Schliar, am! took Prasnysz. They enveloped the other Hank'westwards, preventing retreat towards Mlawa. The remainder of the Germans are now falling back on Thorn.

An observer of the fighting in the Carpathians states that the most terrific mountain .battle in the annals of the world is proceeding among the snowbound precipices and unexplored woods around Dukla. Tlie sirow is so deep that the dead who were bayonetted remain standing. A French military expert at-War-saw states the Russian success ;vt Prasnysz opens the Prussian frontier at the most vulnerable spot. Forced marches night and day through snow resulted in a masterly envelopment, from which the Germans were only able to extricate the remnants of three army corp s with the greatest difficulty, It is estimated that General yon Hiudeuburg has lost over 250,000 men during tho last mouth in the eastern operations. Nearly 30,000 were killed at Prasnysz alone. The Chronicle's Novesilitza correspondent reports a reign of terror in Bukovina. Spies swarm the province denouncing innocents Roumanian sympathies and extorting money by threats of denunciation: There have boon wholesale executions at Czoriuiwitz. Others than Austriaiis fled fearing persecution. The Times correspondent in Petrograd says that between the Nienien and the' Vistula _ the snqw has disappeared and spring is now in fujl sway. The battle lines are moving •irresistibly towards German soil, and j the Kaiser's staunehost regiments cannot stem the t\(.\o. , iPetrograd, March 0Details of the battle at Stanislayqff show that the Aiistrians at the outset had 20 big guns on heights commanding the Russian positions. After initial successes, the infantry advanced in four lines, each comprising four regiments, with auxiliary troops. When a hundred yards bad been covered, a masked Russian battery opened against the artillery and the avian trvT After the latter had been heavily shelled, the Cossacks galloped in. throwing the. lines into confusion, Tito Cossacks then withdrew and the quiekfirers took up the work, mowing down the Austrian front line and forcing the. others to retreat. The Austrians thereafter vainly endeavoured tq make a stand. The Russians on the 26th and 2mi forced two army corps to retire tv a neck seven miles wide between Dzoelin and Schhiir, Of one army corps, mostly. freshly trained, only a quarter escaped, Tbe Russians oaptured 153 officers, 18,522 mon, five guns, _52 machine guns, and many trains in the Stanisiavoff region in ten days. Tbo Russians captured 12 guns, 29 machine guns, 122 caissons, and many trains at Prasnysz,