RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 March 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S CAMPAIGN.

PROGRESS ON EAST J»RUSSJAN

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HEAVY GERMAN CONCENTRA-

TION.

GALTOTAN OPERATIONS

BOMBARDMENT OF PRZEMYSL

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AUSTRIANS CLAIM SUCCESS

JRETROGRAD, March 16. Official.— We progressed on the whole Prasnysz front from the-Mlawa railway to the Erjiec river, and -on the left hank of the latter, fighting all the way.. German counter-attacks were everywhere repulsed. The ,gua6 -at .Qsowiec .wrecked several of the enemy's batteries of heavy calibre. LONDON, .March .16. Germans in the neighborhood of Sieradz, ,in south-west Poland, have commenced to build a strategic railway, using the forced labor of .thousaade ;©£ willagere. Copenhagen says the Austrian prisoners in the Carpathians \were ■ shot in the iack, showing the manner in which .the officers encourage them to adv&na©. PARIS, .March 16. The Jcouvnal .states that \there iis every .indication of the concentration of eight German ;army corps in the ! Prstznysz region. Tie Germans dragged 3iea,vy .guns into position at LOsso- j wieCs, .and unsuccessfully endeavored to disperse a mobile force 'before the fortress. The winter losses on both sides have been ifcerriMe. PEmmmArD, TVfarch 16. The capture of Markowice enabled , the Russians to approach, cclose to J the outworks of Przemysl, and the "braabardmenft has "begun. The Russian and German lines in the Prasnysz region are so close that large ■masses <of troops -are <unab"le *to move freely. AMSTERDAM, March 16. An Austrian communique reports that Austrians repulsed the Russians in Opor Valley, taking thousands of. prisoners. They drove "back the Russians to the north off TJszok Pass.along the entire frcraft.