PROGRESS OF RUSSIANS.
ENEMY REINFORCED.
REARGUARDS DEFEATED.
(Received October 27, 2 a.m.)
Petrograd, October 26. It is officially stated that the Russians inflicted a, series of defeats on the German rearguards attempting to retain positions along the Rivers Rawka, Skierniewka, and Rylka. The Russians, by means of bayonet attacks, occupied Lowicz, 40 miles west of Warsaw, Skierniewice, and Rawa. The Austro-Germans are retreating towards Radom, south of Warsaw. They have been reinforced and are stubbornly resisting the Russian progress. Fighting here ha 1 ! assumed considerable dimensions. The Russians captured prisoners. Maxims, and other guns.
Hard fighting continues on the San River, south of Przemysl, where the Austrian attempts against the Russian flank have been repulsed with heavy losses. An Austrian column which descended the Carpathians towards Dolina, 70 miles south of Lemberg, was defeated and dispersed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 8
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