FIERCE BATTLE RAGING IN RUSSIAN POLAND.
GERMANS REPULSED AT SEVERAL POINTS. HOSTILE FORCES IN CONTACT IN CARPATHIANS. 'Received October 1, 2.30 a.m.) Petrograd, September 30. The Kaiser is commanding 12 army corps in Eastern Prussia. A fierce battle between the Russian, General Renneniampf, and the German, General Hindenberg, has been raging since Sunday morning along a front extending from Grodno, in Russian Poland, to Druskeniki, 23 miles north of Grodno. Four army corps are engaged on both sides. The Russians, who have been constantly reinforced from Wilm, have already repulsed the Germans at several points. The Germans' object is to cut the railway from Warsaw to Vilna, which continues to St. Petersburg.
A new German army corps has made a junction with the remnant of the Austrian Army in Galicia. The combined army is in contact with Russians m the Carpathians, along a front from Tarrow to Cracow^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15728, 1 October 1914, Page 8
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