Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 303, 21 December 1914, Page 5

Russia

THE INVASION OF SILESIA. A PROCESS OF ATTRITION IN GALICIA. United Pbbbs Association. London, December 19. The Times’ Petrograd correspondent says the German Ge’neral Hindenberg s real objective was not Warsaw, but the prevention of the invasion of Silesia, hence his feverish activity. His inability to adhere to a consecutive line of operations was because the Russian plans were well served there. The enemy advanced and destroyed instead of waiting in the trenches, all their efforts being desisted only to postponing the day of reckoning. The Russian armies are within a stone’s throw of the Silesian border, north of Cracow, which is the real pivot of all the present operations. Moreover, desperate flanking moves at Bzura and from the Carpathians merely serves to indicate that the Russians hold the pivot firmly, whence they will duly sweep away the flanking movements and advance into the heart of Germany. (

The Daily Telegraph’s Petrograd correspondent says the Germans’ massing of so many army corps along the narrow Lloff-Lowicz front is obviously intended to tie down as many Russians as possible to prevent their reinfoi’cing the armies before Cracow and elsewhere in Gtilicia. The, Russians meanwhile are content with a policy of subjecting (Germany to a process of attrition.

AMBUSHED PRUSSIAN GUARDS.

Petrograd, December 19

During the recent fighting 3000 Hussars of the Prussian Guards were ambuscaded, and only 50 escaped.

ALLEGED GERMAN VICTORY IN POLAND.

Petrograd, December 19

A semi-official statement ridicules the Germans’ claim to victory in Poland, remarking that they do not give a single name or tell the number of prisoners. Such a fanfare may deceive Germans and Austrians, but not neutrals. Really, the Germans were driven from Bekhanoff, with the Russians at their heels, and already tripping them.

Paris, December 20

A Vienna official message claims to have routed the Russians in West Galicia and also in South Poland. The garrison successfullv sortied from Przemysl, taking hundreds of prisoners.

A LULL 6n THE VISTULA.

Petrograd, December 14.

Official.—A lull along almost the whole front on the left bank of the Vistula succeeded the enemy’s several days’; attacks, all of which were repulsed. The enemy’s offensive in western Galicia has been checked. We have been successfully, executing offensive operations on the Sanok-Lisko front, where we captured three thousand prisoners and several guns and machine-guns.

Paris, December 19

Advices from Petrograd show that the sudden lull on the Vistula arises from the awkward position of the German left wing, due to the Russian success in the Mlava region. It is now certain that the German plan to seize the right bank of the Vistula by making, a dash on the left, simultaneously advancing from Mlava, has Completely failed.

GENERAL.

Petrograd, December 20.

Official: Artillery prevented the enemy’s attempt to cross to the right bank of the Vistula, near Dobrain, and forced the Germans to evacuate an island occupied in mid-stream. We captured their pontoon^. Fighting in the Bzura is beginning to develop. Several German attacks have been repulsed. We recaptured a thousand prisoriers on the left bank at Dunaietz, in Western Galicia. A strong force of the Przemysl garrison is trying to get out in the direction of Bmreza.