Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-10-16 | Page 2 | Russians Capture Village at Night

RUSSIANS CAPTURE VILLAGEAT NIGHT FOLLOWERS OF CZAR GET THE BEST OF GERMANS IN SEVERAL ENCOUNTERS. German Detachment Surrounded at Night in Forest and Partly Exterminated, Ex-terminated, After Abandoning Their Guns. Petrograd. An official communication communica-tion issued from general headquarters says: Th Jghting on the East Prussian frontier continued on October 7 with ferocity. In spite of German reinforcements rein-forcements all their attacks in the region of Wirballen (Russian Poland) and Philipoff have been repulsed with great losses. By a night assault the Russian troops have captured the village of Kamenka, near Bakalar-gewo. Bakalar-gewo. In the forest of Massalstchiznak west of Ratchka our troops in a night attack surrounded a German detachment detach-ment which was partly exterminated, the others being dispersed, abandoning abandon-ing their rapid-firers. Russian troops have also captured the town of Biala (in Galicia, forty-three forty-three miles west-southwest of Cracow). Cra-cow). . In other regions there Is nothing of importance to record. In the attack against the Przemysl garrison conditions are in our favor, our troops capturing by assault a strong fortification, constituting the principal positions.