FIGHTING IN GALICIA

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 31

FIGHTING IN GALICIA

IMPORTAsNT RUSSIAN SUCCESSES PETROGRAD, June 3.

Official: There -was stubborn fighting on Monday on the front between the Vistula end Przemysl. The Russians had somewhat important successes on the left bank pf the lower San, taking several villages at the bayonet point. They captured a t>ase southward of Karnikouve, on the right bank of the San, taking 1200 prisoners, including 22 officers.

GERMAN COMMANDANT CAPTURED.

PETROGRAD, June 2,

A Russian patrol captured General- von Pritvitz, the German commandant at iiibau (on the Baltic), when he was motoring with several officers and an escort. Most of the escort Avere killed, and the test were taken prisoners. General von Pritvitz was slightly wounded.

BOMB ON A THEATRE

WARSAW, June 2.

A bomb from a German aeroplane struck $ kinema theatre at Girador, in Poland, lyhen it was full of people. It pierced tke roof and exploded, killing six and wounding 25 persons, mostly women and children.

GERMAN CLAIMS. BERLIN, June 2,

A communique states that 863 officers and 268,889 men were taken prisoners in Jjay in the south-eastern theatre, also 251 and 576 machine guns, of which General von Mackensen captured two gene--|als, 400 officers, 153,254 men, 160 cannon, and 403 machine guns. The total Russians captured in May were 1000 officers and over 300,000 men.

THE ZEPPELIN RAID. LONDON, June 2.

At the inquest on the bodies of the man and his wife killed in the last Zeppelin taid the verdict was that deceased were murdered by some agent of a hostile jforco.

A doctor said that death was due to suffocation. The evidence showed that two flashes of light were seen, and the house was set afiro immediately, also the wooden blocks in the paving of the street, where were

found remnants of bombs —metal framework bound with tarred rope. The coroner said that the composition of which the bombs were made caused them to give out enormous heat, the temperature being said to be 5000 deg. Fahr. At the inquest on the bodies of a man and his wife, victims of the Zeppelin raid, the evidence showed that they were found with their night clothes burnt off, kneeling at the bedside in an attitude of prayer, and that they ■were suffocated. Two bombs were found in the basement of the house, one unexploded tilled with themite. At a second inquest, on a girl aged three, who was burned to death, the evidence showed that a bomb crashed into the children’s bed. Four other children were rescued, but the fifth was left, her father believing that all had been saved.

STEAMER TORPEDOED. LONDON, June 2,

The steamer Sideh (? Saidieh), with a general cargo, bound from Alexandria to Hull, was torpedoed in the North Sea. Part of her crew were lost.

BELGIAN TRAWLER SUNK. LONDON, June 3.

A submarine sank a Belgian trawler. The crew were landed on one of the Scilly Islands.