A RUSSIAN VICTORY

Otago Witness, Issue 3168, 2 December 1914, Page 25

A RUSSIAN VICTORY

DECISIVE VICTORY REPORTED. PARIS, November 24. Le Matin’s Petrograd correspondent reports that, after repulsing a counterattack on the Plock-Lenczyca line, the Russians gained a brilliant and decisive victory. The Germans are fleeing toward the Prussian frontiers, with the Russians closely pursuing. PETROGRAD, November 21. Official: The battle around Lodz continues. The Russian cavalry at one

point attacked the retreating Ger> mans, inflicting great loss and capturing heavy guns. The battle on the CzenstochowaCracow front is developing successfully for the Russians. We took six thousand prisoners. On Sunday we repulsed counter attacks. The Russians trapped three regiments on the bank of the Bzoura River, which is easily fordable. The Germans crossed and found themselves cut off by Cossacks, who had crossed higher up the stream. Meanwhile the Russian infantry crept up at the rear under cover of the artillery. The Germans were surrounded, and only half a regiment escaped. The Austrians recently withdrew from the outer forts round Przemysl. The Russians, suspecting a ruse, drove some cattle towards the forts. The cattle were blown to bits by treading on mines. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY. ROME, November 24. Newspapers state that the attack of the Austrian army in Galicia has weakened. The soldiers are depressed and discouraged, and unable to resist the Russians without the assistance of Germany. WOUNDED FROM GALICIA. VENICE, November 24. Many wounded from Galicia are arriving at Trent. They tell fearful stories of losses and sickness, and state that the German doctors who have superseded the Austrians send invalids back to the front before they are half cured. New Landsturm recruits are compelled to provide their own outfit, and only scanty rations are issued. They largely exist on raw turnips and beetroot. A DUKE’S ESCAPE. AMSTERDAM, November 25. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg narrowlyescaped death in Poland. A grenade exploded in the midst of his staff, killing three. BOMBS DROPPED. WASHINGTON, November 24. The State Department reports that German bombs fell outside the American Consulate at Warsaw, indicating that German forces with Zeppelins are in close proximity to that city. Several persons were killed in front of the Consulate, but the American inmates were uninjured.