RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15824, 22 January 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN OPERATIONS.

FURTHER SUCCESSES.

LOSSES OF THE ENEMY.

London. January 20. * A Petrograd communique says there is nothing important to report. On January 19 the Germans suffered heavy losses in an, attack on Radloff, in Western Galicia. The Russian forces in the Austrian province of Bukovina captured Joahanneachti, to the north of Dornavatra

VICTORIES CONFIRMED.

ENEMY FALLING BACK.

Wellington. January 21

The following message from the High Commissioner in London, dated January 21, has been received by the Prime Minister: —

Pctrograd reports state that north of Rawa two attacks by the enemy were checked by Russian artillery, the Germans being compelled to fall back.

A Gorman offensive movement at a bridgehead at Xitkuvitze was repelled.

In Western Galicia the enemy, having heavily bombarded the Russian position south of Radlow, fired two villages- A compact force reached the Russian wire entanglements, where a withering fire met them, and they suffered great losses and had to fall back. .

The Russians have successfully advanced in the Austrian province of Bukovina, and have occupied the village of Joahannedchti, taking several prisoners.

CAMPAIGN IN POLAND.

SLAUGHTER OF GERMANS.

Times and Sydney Sen Services.

London, January 20.

The latest German casualty lists show that several regiments hare practically vanished as a result of the wholesale slaughter in Poland

FUTURE FOR RUSSIA.

EDUCATION VERSUS DRINK.

Times and Sydney Sun Services.

London, January 20.

Lecturing before the British National Liberal Club, Mr. Stephen Graham, author, and an authority on Russia, declared that if the prohibition of vodka, the Russian national spirituous beverage; becomes permanent, Russia, after the war, will have the extraordinary driving power necessary to provide education in the industrial communities. Education will thus largely occupy the time formerly speat-oier vodka, and-Russia . will take her place as a western power hi virtue of industrialism.