Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 39, 2 October 1914, Page 5

Russia

IN EAST PRUSSIA. FIGHTING ALONG A FRONT OF 100 MILES. "REVENGE IS SWEET." United Treks (Association. Petrograd, October 1. Two German divisions in the battle of Druskeniki were annihilated. The lighting on the frontier extended over a hundred-mile front. All the German attempts to force the passage of the River Niemen were repulsed. The Forest of Augustovo, through which the Germans are now retreating, is 24 miles from north to south, and 35 miles from east to west. It is intercepted by a canal connecting the Niemen and Vistula, and studded with lakes. Heavy rain latterly reduced some parts of the district to a quagmire. The Russians are operating in the forest, attacking the German flank with a view of cutting its communications.

The German barbarities in Russian Poland provoked reprisals. Three German officers and 19 soldiers were hanged to trees in one place, to expiate the hanging of six Russian peasants. (Niemen, or Memel, is a river rising in the Russian province of. Minsk and flowing 500 miles (the latter part through Prussia) to Kurisches Haff, 50 miles N.E. of KonigsbergV

FLEEING AUSTRIAN ARMY SURROUNDED. GERMAN DEFEAT AT SUWALKI. Rome, October 1. The Russian Aipbassador states that the fleeing Austrian army was surrounded near Dukla, and the Russians captured 500 automobiles, much ammunition, and food. The Russians defeated the Germans in the Suwalki district, and occuped Augustovo. l

COSSACKS PRAISED. "PANIC IN EAST PRUSSIA EXISTS IN BERLIN.'' (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, October 1. Herr Vousache, Mayor of Insterberg, in an article in newspaper Derton, says that when the German troops withdrew from Gumbinnen the citizens were transferred to senseless cowards and fled in dismay, crowding the railways and hampering the soldiers. Herr Vousache pays a tribute to the Cossacks' behaviour, which was exemplary. Notwithstanding the provocativ e acts of some youths, there ywas not a single instance of lack of respect to women. He adds: "The panic in East Prussia exists exclusively irt the Berlin press."