THE RUSSIANS MOVING.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4946, 22 September 1914, Page 5

THE RUSSIANS MOVING.

FORTIFICATIONS OCCUPIED. Petrograd, Last Night. The Russians have occupied the fortifications of Siniawa and Sambor. The Austrian rear-guard was driven out of Vischtia across the river San. The Russians burnt-at Jaroslav 3000 ammunition waggons. They also took prisoners 3000 men and captured ten guns in the Sandomie and Rabomyail region. Tho Russians captured a siege artillery tfflin with thirty-six howitzers, which had been sent from Breslau to assist the Austrians. It is stated that the Russians captured altogether a thousand Austrian guns.

WOUNDED RUSSIANS. Petrograd, Last Night. Eighty per ’cent, of the Russian wounded are suffering from injuries I to* the legs and arms. The dangerously wounded average only one per ■ cent. IBR.IGADE rushed forward. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK. London, Last Night. The Daily Chonicle’s Petrograd correspondent describes General Ren- ' nenkampf’s rushing his brigade forward by a night march, spoiling tho German preparations to envelop hie left flank. The Russians under a tremendous artillery and rifle fire repeatedly drove back the Germans, and eventually carried tho trenches, which were filled with corpses. They next captured the town, the stone houses of which were converted into miniature cfortresscs, surrounded by deep trenches and wire entanglements, and each had to be taken separately. The Germans consider the Russians ridiculously inferior, hut tho success enabled General Rennenkampf to cany the defensive works they recently constructed. JAPANESE SUCCESS. Tokio, Last Night. Official. —The Japanese troops have landed in Loa.shan Bay, north of Tsingtao. The Japanese state that the German troops at Tsingf.ao number 6000, and there are also several hundreds of civil guards. The Japanese on Thursday attacked a fortified position near Thimo. The enemy used machine guns, but abandoned tho position, at nightfall, leaving their supplies and equipment. ‘ BRITISH CRUISERS ATTACKED. THE PEGASUS DISABLED. London j Last Night. “Tho Times” publishes messages from British East Africa, reporting that the German cruiser Konigsberg unexpectedly attacked the cruiser Pegasus while the latter was anchored at Zanzibar having her boilers cleaned,. The Pegasus was disabled, and twenty-five of her crew were killed and eighty wounded. The Konigsberg escaped 1 .