In the East

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1915, Page 5

In the East

GENERAL. t'Nli'lD Pb»l AeBOOIATIOH. Petrograd, January 21. Our offensive on the Lower Vistula. is increasing. The country contains many hillocks, forests, and swamps. The Russians along the MlawaWarsaw railway reached Conopki, t?n miles north of.Ciechanof, worsting the Germans' heavy artillery. The Germans are also entrenched at Bietoun, eleven miles north-east of Sirpce. Thence the lino reaches to the Vistula at Dobrzyn. The last German counter-attack was defeated only ten miles from Slo clave. A communique states that nothing important happened on the 19th. The Germans suffered heavy losses in an attack' on Radloff, in Western Galicia. The Russians in Bukovina captured Johaneschti, 15 versts north of Fornawatra.