Russian Campaign

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign

THE RUSSIANS HIT. GERMAN OFFENSIVE STOPPED. Received July 7, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, July 7. Official: There was most desperate fighting on Sunday evening and Monday morning between the Vistula and tho Western Bug on the sector between Urzendow and Lychawa. The German offensive east of Krasnik was stopped by a blow on the German flank on the heights north-west of Wilkolaz,, where two thousand Germans were taken prisoner and two thousand were killed. RUSSIAN BURNED ALIVE. GERMANS ADMIT CRUELTY. Received July 7, 11.30 p.m. Petrograd, July 7. The Novoe Vreniya has carefully investigated the case of Germans in'.'lalicia burning alive Russian wounded soldiers, together with doctors. The wounded men were infections cases from the Carpathians, left in the .Jesuit College, Cliyrow. When the Germans came up tliey removed the infected eases to isolated wooden barracks, with the Russian doctors attending them, and shut all the windows and doors, and poured paraffin on tlie building, burning a hundred alive. The 'Germans do not deny the fact that German sernrplancs dropped n proclamation, pointing out that they were forced to resort to cruelty by stern necessity in order not to carry infection to their army, and to teach tho Russians not to leave sick and wounded behind, thus burdening the German medical staff. The proclamation concludes with the hope that the Rus> sians will learn a lesson from thi9. The "camels" have come! You will find them at your grocers on packets of "Desert Gold" Tea. Start saving them and win £2O. See your grocer today. ' "Tha Pnn that Cheers" giwa men test