GERMAN ATTACKS ON BANKS OF THE VISTULA
A RUSSIAN RETREAT. AUSTRIAN'S CHECKED IN THE CARPATHIANS. PETROGRAD, Dec. 17. (Official.) The Germans made obstinate attaints on the left- bank of the Vistula, mainly towards Kernoti. We were obliged to resist attacks neai" Sochatshev under conditions of local disadvantage, and retreated slightly. : pur counter attacks elsewhere along; the f i"ont held the enemy in his posi-: tions. ' • The progress of the Austiians in the, ■Carpathians has been checked. AUSTRIAN MISMANAGEMENT OF TROOPS. LONDON, Dec. 15. , The superintendent of a London organi- ' sation in Venice states that the Austrian.; authorities mismanage their forces. Their men are marched for six days and nights without rest, and hundreds of them fall out exhausted. Anybody revealing the I truth about Galicia is hanged, as being; I a possible cause of revolution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 5
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