RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 8

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

AN OFFICIAL REPORT. y •*£■' . ■*• - TRIBUTE TO COURAGE OF - SIBERIANS, AUSTRIA'S BAD CASE. ALARMING OUTBREAKS OF : DISEASE.

f^ \ (Received Oct. 23, 12.30 p.m;) PETROGRAD, Oct. 22. ■ - The official reporter pays a "tribute -to the courage of the Siberians, who '•■ "-detrained in the suburbs of Warsaw -and immediately engaged in the great „> lattle. They inflicted terrible losses with the bayonet and captured many prisoner*. .

, "; The reporter adds: "The Caucasians • showed extraordinary courage. Near . Kozisniel they fought for eight days ;"<ieep in a bog on the left bank of the .HVistula, and' exposed to heavy- artillery £\fire. They repulsed all attacks, though ■, - the Germans had all the advantages of . the ground. Despite their heavy 1 losses the Caucasians did not yield a yard, and frequently saved the most - desperate situations, enabling other " -troops to have free action.

Referring to the great battle south iw ©f Przemysl the reporter says the Aus--fcrians were fighting in confusion and 1 had enormous losses. ROME* Oct. 22. Advices from Austria give news of sVafc alarming spread of cholera, small-; %;pox, typhoid, plague and lockjaw. An *& Austrian communique admits a hun- ), tired cases of cholera, arid adds that - typhoid and small-pox have broken out -at Trieste among the wounded from Cralicia.