THE RUSSIAN HAMMER
GERMAN REPULSES IN PASSES.
INEFFECTUAL SORTIES FEOM
PRZEMYSL.
PETROGRAD, February 20.
Official: The enemy's attacks between the Tuchla and Wyszkow Passes were particularly fierce, but were repulsed. We easily repulsed two sorties from Przemysl, inflicting severe losses.
EAST PRUSSIAN ENGAGEMENT.
HEAVY REARGUARD FIGHTING. GERMAN AIMS ON WARSAW. LONDON, February 20. The Daily Mail correspondents with the Russian armies state that 175,000 troops in East Prussia retired in good order before 400,000 Germans. There was heavy rearguard fighting.
The Russians are concentrating in the Augu&towo forest region, and the Germans are concentrating towards Novo-GeoTgevik, intending to assail Warsaw from the west and north, or to cut the railways on which Warsaw depends.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16315, 23 February 1915, Page 5
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