STUBBORN REARGUARD ACTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 2 December 1914, Page 5

STUBBORN REARGUARD ACTION.

A GERMAN FORCE CUT OFF

SHELTERING IN STRONG ENTRENCHMENTS.

REINFORCEMENTS SENT TO CRACOW.

CARNAGE AMONGST THE MADDENED GERMANS.

BUKOVINA OQ&CUPIED

HUNGARIAN FRONTIER OPEN TO RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD, Dec. 1

An army messenger states that the Germans west of Lowicz are abandoning the wounded, rifles, ammunition, and transport in their retreat, but the rearguard is . fighting stubbornly and defending the prepared entrenchments. The German force which was endeavoring to escape north of Koluzski has been cut off, and is sheltering m strong entrenchments. They have also been reinforced by two infantry and one cavalry divisions.

Au official report tells that stubborn fighting near Lodz continues. The Germans have suffered great losses.*

The Russians captured severaj Austrian positions in the Carpathian passes, also capturing quick-firers and numerous prisoners.

PARIS, Dee. 1

Le Matin states that it is understood that 30,003 Breslau troops have been sent to Cracow.

LONDON, Dec. 1

The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports that, under the inspiration of a misleading order from the Kaiser, promising that the war would be ended if "Warsaw were taken, the entrapped Germans hurled themselves against the encircling wall of Russians with the desperation of maddened wild animals. The carnage was awful. The Germans were obliged to climb over heaps of their dead comrades in order to reach the Russian bayonets.

The Russians fought magnificently, I-at were in h sufficient numbers, and the Germans avoided a Sedan, but their retreat is perilous owing to the absence of roads.

Russians from Lodz and Morga river still threaten the flanks, and Cossacks persistently harry the retreat.

BUCHAREST, Dec. 1

Russians have occupied the whole of Bukovina, capturing enormous quantities of arms, ammunition, and provisions. The Austrian Catholics fled. The Hungarian frontier is now entirely open.

(Bukovina as an easttern province of Austria-Hungary.- Czernowitz is the capital town.)