Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 5

Russia.

BUDAPESTH ALARMED. REHEATING AUSTRIANS IN AN AWKWARD FIX. Times and Sydney Sun Services, (Received 8 a.m.) • London, November 21. Le Matin (Paris) is informed that the Russians are cutting off the retreat of the Austrians in Hungary, of whom 80,000 run the risk of becoming prisoners. Budapestli is alarmed, ebcause they will be unable thereafter to resist invasion. THE GREAT GERMAN DEFEAT. United Press Association. Petrograd, November 21. The Russians were definitely successful southward of Czestochowa. All the foremost German forces were driven back, and compelled to act on the defensive in their old positions. During the Germans’ last effort at Piever, on the Russian line northward of Kutno, a German cavalry division came under a crossfire from Russian infantry entrenched with a strong support of machine guns. The Germans abandoned 3000 dead and wounded, and the vanguard of their advance retired on the main body, which is now spreading itself among defensive positions round Lodz. The Russian pressure continues.

Generals Von Bredow and Von Bromel committed suicide at Czenstochowa after the great German defeat.

The Kaiser offered to replace the Czehstochowa Virgin’s golden crown, which the Germans stole. The Poles rejected the offer as. a blasphemy emanating from liars, incendiaries, violators andmurderers of women and children.

The Germans have reached Pronisk, eastward of Bzura, having fought their way desperately across a riverbed, which had been filled with barbed wire. Many were entangled and drowned under their maddened horses’ hoofs.

While the Prussian infantry was entrenching near Gostynen, fourteen hundred Russians charged into their midst. The masses were so dense that it was impossible at times to use the bayonet, and the men fought with fists. The Prussians were three times as numerous as the Russians, and the Russians gradually withdrew. INTERESTS OF THE BALKANS WITH THE ENTENTE.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) Petrograd, November 22

M. lonesco, Minister of the Interior, in a> telegram to the Yetchernoye Vremya, says: All the Roumanians’ interests and their future are unseparably ' bound up with victory to the Triple Entente. 1 A German victory would imply the burial of all the Balkan States’ hopes and the neutrals’ 'independence. , GENERAL. Petrograd, November 22. Official: The Austro-German army from Czestocesoja to Cracow maintains a violent offensive, with the intention of helping the centre army. The Russians resumed the offensive, and drove the Germans back, inflicting enormous losses, and making many prisoners. Violent actions occurred at Cracow, but the Russians continue to advance. London, November 21. An eye-witness states that German eastern strategy aims to deliver a blow at the heart of Poland, thus staving off the invasion of Silesia. The Germans are repeating the trick of moving troops backwards and 1 forwards on the railways to give the appearance of large numbers. Amsterdam. November 21.

A German official statement is to the effect that fighting round Lodz and East Czestochowa is still indecisive.