FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14463, 30 November 1914, Page 5

FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

THE ENEMY ROUTED. PETROGRAD, November 28. ' . Official.—The Russians gained decisive success on the Proszowice-Brzesko-Boch-nia-Wisiricz front on Thursday. They routdd the enemy and captured seventhousand prisoners and thirty guns, whereof ten were with complete teams; also twenty machine-guns. A Russian battalion ■ captured the. commander, twenty officers and 1250 men 'with the colours, which were in remnants, of the 31st Hanover regiment at Brzesko ;■ also a • motor-car with several members of the General Staft. We are eiiergtically pursuing the enemy. We progressed at certain points at Lodz, and are attacking important forces in the Carpathians. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK. ' IMMENSE LOSSES. PETROGRAD, November 28. It is officially announced that many exaggerated statements of .the dimensions of. the Russian victory on the Vistula are based oir private ‘letters, and should be accepted with reserve, but beyond doubt the German plan to break the Russian front has failed and the Germans have been compelled .to fall back, suffering immense losses. GERMANS IN DESPERATE STRAITS LONDON, November 28. Tile Doily News’ Petwograd correspondent states that the Germans are in a crooked triangle. The apex is west of Koluszki and the base between .Lowicz and Lodz. The Russians have a force turned inward upon the triangle, but the main body is resisting determined efforts from Thorn to reach the isolated army corps. The railway to Thorn is exposed to constant raids by Russian cavalry. ■’ IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIAN SUCCESS. PETROGRAD, November 28. Official.—Our troops, advancing from Lzura, have reached Goobin. We captured Breziny and other villages in the Warta Valley by bayonet attacks. The cavalry charged the retreating enemy and captured guns and many prisoners. The positio non tho whole Wartavistula front is favourable. Our success at; Gzenstochowa and Cracow was of marked importance. >Ve took prisoners over four thousand Germans. The Russians forded the Raba, neck deep, amid rushing ice floes, and carried a ,strongly fortified position. We carried' Bochnia against desperate resistance, capturing two thousand; also , ten guns and a number of machineguns. The enemy’s retreat was disor-, deny near Cracow. HEAVY RUSSIAN .REINFORCEMENTS. . GERMANS UNEASY. , • ■ .• -.it COPENHAGEN^.November. 28. Private adviccs fromußprlin state that the Germans are uneasy over heavy Russian reinforcements. They' state that new forces seem’ to spring up out of the ground. Th© Russians have been marching through Warsaw day and night for five weeks without a break. It is estimated , that four, millions have passed. NERVOUSNESS IN BERLIN.; GERMAN ARMIES IN RETREAT.' COPENHAGEN, November 29. Nervousness in Berlin is increasing. Official reports deal with ‘news several days old. It is rumoured that the German armies in Poland are retreating *■) several points. Thousands of fugitives, mostly of Slav nationalities, are fleeing along the roads in East Prussia, Posen, and Silesia, suffering terrible privations.' Hundreds of children have died from lack of milk. Many thousand wounded are arriving by rail in Posen, Breslau, and Berlin. SENDING TROOPS TO POLAND. MANY WITHDRAWN FROM BELGIUM. AMSTERDAM.' November 29. Whereas the Germans reported that great reinforcements were being sent 1 into Flanders, it has now been ascertained that all the Belgian railways for many nights and days have been mononolised in transporting troops to Poland. . ,

AMERICAN NEUTRALITY.

A PERUVIAN PROPOSAL, WASHINGTON, Tlie Peruvian Minister has laid a scheme before Mr Bryan laying out the areas in South American waters in both oceans for establishing neutral zones in which merchantmen of all nationalities will be free from molestation. The proposal briefly comprised the extension of territorial waters seaward for a distance to be later determined. ■ The Brazilian Minister asked the United States’ co-operation with the object of restoring crippled trade. Mr Bryan refused decision until the President consulted the Cabinet. THE GERMAN CRUISERS. STILL IN CHILIAN WATERS. LONDON, November 28. The German cruisers in the Pacific do not appear to have left Chilian waters. A DISCREDITED REPORT. OTTAWA, November 28. Seattle reports ; that arriving steamers indicate that the German cruisers are off the Aleutian Islands. The Navy Yard .discredits the report, as .the' danger of the capture of the Germans, is great owing to Japan’s naval activity. THE BULWARK DISASTER. LONDON, November 28. The Bulwark 'was loading ammunition from barges at the time of the explosion. THIRTY BODIES RECOVERED. Thirty bodies have” been recovered, of 1 victims of the Bulwark disaster. They are mostly unidentifiable.