VISTULA FIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11216, 23 October 1914, Page 6

VISTULA FIGHT.

THE OFFICIAL REPORT. SIBERIANS TO THE TORE.

AUSTRIAN'S BEATEH IN GAUCU.

(flcreived October 23, noon.)

PET.ROG RAV), October 22

The ofliciiil reporter pays it tribute

to the courage of the Siberians who

detrained in a suburb of Warsaw, and

immediately engaged in the great

battle. They inflicted terrible losses

with the bayonet, and ca-ptuied many

prisoners

Tlie reporter adds: "The Caucasians

showed extraordinary courage near Ko-

zisnid. They' fought for eight days in a deep bog on tlje left bank of the

Vistula, all the time exposed to heavy

artillery fire. They ropulsed all at-

ta,c;ks, though the Germans had all ad-

vantage in the matter of the ground

Despite' heavy losses, the Caucasians

did not yield a yard,-frequently sav<jd tho most desperate situations:, onabl-

ing other troops to be free for action."

Referring to the great; battle south of Przemysl, the reporter says that the Atistnnns.- are lighting in confusion, and have sustained enormous losses. STRICKEN BY PLAGUES. ROME, October 22. Advices from Austria give news of an alarming spread of cholera, smallpox, typhoid, plague and lockjaw. An Austrian communique admits 100 cases of cholera, and. adds that typhoid and. smallpox have broken out at Trieste .among the wounded from Galicia.