BATTLE GROWING IN INTENSITY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 5

BATTLE GROWING IN INTENSITY

GERMAN REPULSE REPORTED

RUSSIA ON THE OFFENSIVE

DOUBTFUL AUSTRIAN FORCES USED FAR FROM HOME.

VIENNA, Oct.' 22. The battle in Central Galicia is rapidly growing in intensity.: The Russians are making fierce efforts to capture Magiorahil.

petrograd; Oct. Official.—Germans towards Warsaw and in tha region north of the river at Pilitza were repulsed, and are in full retreat, leaving their wounded lying within the area of conflict. Positions fortified in advance were abandoned.

. The, Russians energetically advanced along the whole front. The enemy is still resisting on the left bank of the Vistula south of. Pilitza to the S,an river. Russians are gallantly holding the regions at Knosenitz, under heavy artillery fire. The position on the left bank of the Vistula is now secured below Przemysl.

Austrian .attempts to cross the San were prevented. The Russians are assuming the offensive. In the regions south of Przemysl the Russians repulsed the advance of numerous bodies. The position in East Prussia is unchanged.

LONDON, Oct. 2,2. The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent states that many of the Austrian troops have been removed from the Italian frontier, ostensibly, to fight the Russians.

Servians have actually been used to strengthen the German right wing in the neighborhood of the North Sea.