Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 62, 9 November 1914, Page 5

Russia

CREAT RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. I'.NITKO P.HKBB ASSOCIATION. Petrograd, November 7. Official: Between October 28 and November 2 we overcame the enemy's resistance in the region of New Alexandria and Sandomir. The principal Austrian forces in Galicia were forced to retreat on the sth. During the eighteen deays our successes doug J stX>-verst front broke down the enemy's resistance, and he is now generally retreating. London, November 7. The Tinies' Copenhagen correspondent states tiiat three million Germans and Austro-JJungarians are concentrated on the line from Thorn to Cracow, i Petrograd, November 7. Official: During theN fighting between October 23 and November 4, on the Thorn to Cracow line, the Russians captured 274 officers, 18,500 men, three howitzers, 40 cannons, 38 mitrailleuses, and many shells, arms, and ammunition. Petrograd, November 8. All the towns which the Germans traversed were wrecked, and the railway bridges blown up. The Germans when quitting Radom shot all their prisoners, including a- Cossack officer who was compelled to dig his own grave. The Pauline monastery is held as a hostage for the inhabitants' good behaviour. The threat to burn the building which is famous for pilgrimages, strikes at the religius sentiment of the whole of Poland. Monks who were expelled and nave arrived in the Russian lines report that the monastery has been prepared as a residence for the Kaiser, the furniture having been brought from Germany and rooms? prepared for a staff' of sixty. The Russians in East Prussia occupy a line from Schirvindt to Lyck. Thousands' of German dead remain unburied in many districts because the ground is frozen. Germans everywhere abandoned their wounded, and the resources of the Russian medical corps are heavily taxed in dealing with them. The practice of not permitting an armistice for the removal of wounded is the eaiise of many deaths from exposure at night time.

The Germans in Poland are steadily withdrawing to strongly fortified positions on the Czenstochowo-to-Kalisch line. Here with Breslau in the, rear, the Germans have accumulated stores, F■ , \ and are proposing to remain oil the defensive .through the winter. HOW VIENNA COT THE.NEWS. Rome, November 8. Upwards of 100,000 wounded arrived in Vienna in a few days,and the public gradually became qware of a grave, Austrian defeat on the Sail. ' .!:;' MOST IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESS YET REPORTED. I Paris, November 7? The Grand Duke Nicholas, commanding the Russian forces, sent a message to General Joffre, announcing a Russian victory in Galicia, the most important in the eastern theatre since the beginning of the war. OFFICIAL. Petrograd,November'"' 7. a Official: The Russians are successfully advancing on Rominite and Lyck. Tlie German rearguard driven out of TJlava on Wednesday, with heavy losses. The Germans continue to fall back to the other side of the Vistula. A German column passed Czensockovo to the westwards. The Austrians left many cholera victims jat Jarowlav and Przevorsk, villages en the San.