THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 5

THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS.

INEFFECTIVE FIRE FROM

PRZEMYSL.

FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE

NAREW.

VILLAGES CONTINUALLY CHANG-

ING HANDS.

GERMAN LOSSES IN THE PILITZA

REGION.

(Received March 20, 1.50 a.m.)

Petrograd, March 19

Official —The guns of Przemysl continue to fire 1000 heavy projectiles a day, with little effect. There has been fierce fighting for the possession of the villages on the right bank of the Narew, which continually change hands. There is murderous machine-gun fighting in the daytime, and desperate bayoneting at night.

The German losses in the Pilitza region since the sth total 25,000.

CABLE NEWS.

[Pbksb Association— Copymght.]