RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ON EAST PRUSSIAN BORDER. MANY GERMANS SENT BACK ACROSS FRONTIER. HEAVY LOSSES AT LODZ. BOTH SIDES SUFFER SEVERELY. FROSTBITTEN SOLDIERS FROM GALICIA.

PETROGRAD, Dec. 18

Official.—The Russians towards Mlawa are vigorously pursuing the defeated Germans, a large number of whom crossed the frontier. They captured prisoners and several guns. There has been no engagement of importance on the left bank of the Vistula or i n Galicia.

It is estimated that the German losses in the Lodz district, comprising killed, wounded and prisoners, were 160,000, and the Russian losses 120,000. Prisoners state that the* Kaiser ordered Warsaw to \ye taken at all costs.

ROME, Dec. 18. Of 800 severely wounded from Galicia, who have arrived at Trieste, 200 are doomed to amputation of hands and feet owing to frostbite.