FIGHTING ON THE NIEMEN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13732, 22 March 1915, Page 5

FIGHTING ON THE NIEMEN.

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES

THE ENEMY'S VANDALISM

(Received March 21, 3.30 p.m.)

Petrograd, March 20.

We captured Vysee, on the left bank of the Niemen, and repulsed a counterattack in the Voyli region. The Gerj mans sustained heavy infantry losses. ihey sent four squadrons of cavalry through the marshes to support the infantry and envelop our main flank. Our artillery suddenly attacked and killed or wounded most, and dispersed the I remnant. The Germans in Poland devastated ninety-five towns and 4500 hamlets, of which a thousand were burned to the ground. The damage totals a hundred million sterling-