With the Russians

Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13188, 31 May 1915, Page 5

With the Russians

FIGHTING ROUND PRZEMYSL. GERMANS .ATTEMPTING A CIRCLING MOVEMENT. SUPERIOR RUSSIAN STRATEGY. AUSTRO-G ER.M AN ARMY DECIMATED. Received May 31, 9.10 a.m. PETROGRAD, May 3D. OHicial: Ihe enemy made prodigious efforts in the last feew days to encircle Przemysl The enemy on the San began to change front on the 20th, constructing LI bridges. General Mackensen on the 2 Ith hurried the armies between the rivers Liniutalclievka and San simultaneously to the enemy's left, flank with hundreds of thousands of infantry and 1001) guns, and attempted to turn us on the left bank of the San on a 10-mile front in the direction of Radynio and Drogotcher. The Austro - German armies which should have aided General .Mackensen to turn Przemysl from the south were decimated near Gussakow; while (General Rimanof, the hero of Port Arthur, crushed the garrison of Lohisseeo behind General .Mackensen. who is repeating on a much larger scale the manoeuvre at Lodz in November. The present manoeuvre is still incomplete, though some of the infantry regiments lost three-quarters of their effectives. It is prematiure to speak yet of the result, despite the favourable signs. The Observer's Petrograd correspondent states that Grand Duke Nicholas has proved the superiority of his strategy. The German battering ram became immobilised for a week, and was heavily hammered. It then attempted tactical manoeuvres, but the development was slow owing to the distance from the railways, and it was impossible to repair the battering ram's failure.