RUSSIA'S ADVANCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 September 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA'S ADVANCE.

EAST PRUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

AUSTRIAN CASUALTIES

THIRTY-FIVE PER CENT. OF

THOSE ENGAGED

LONDON, Sep. 21, The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd 'correspondent describes General Rennenkampff's rushing of a brigade forward by a night march as spoiling the German preparations to envelop his left flank.

The Russians, under a tremendous artillery and rifle fire, repeatedly drove back the Germans. They eventually carried the trenches, -which were filled with corpses. ' ■

They next captured the town, ;in which the stone houses had been converted into miniature fortresses, surrounded by deep trenches and wire entanglements. Each iad to be taken separately.

A collection of handsome coffins :ound for the use of officers.

The Germans did not suspect- ?the ridiculous inferiority of the Russians, whose success enabled General Rennenkampff to carry out the defensive movement recently concluded.

PETROGRAD, Sep. .21.

It is estimated that the total Austrian casualties in Gatlicia amount to thirty-five per cent.'-of the million engaged. The Russian casualties ansount to 25,000. This great ••disparity is attributed to the superiority of the gunnery.