The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1914, Page 3

-GIAR SEEKS TO CRUSH ENTIRE AUSTRIAN ARMY _ INBATTLEIN POLAND —_— —-—<+. Tries to Annihilate Franz Josef’s, Troops So March to Berlin and | | Vienna May Begin in Great Force. Py PETROGRA pt. {United Prese.]—The Russian army fs engaged terday fea supreme offort w cnnthtlate Austria's war power, Gen, Roursky, swith Sts victortous armies which deseated the Austrian armies at Lemoezg, Galicia, Additional reinforcements have been sent to Gen. Rouzsky, and while/ Bis main army is attacking the Austrian position, which is heavily en- @renched, other divisions will attempt a flanking movement designed to cut off the Austrian retreat and also to prevent German reinforcements Teaching the scene, It is certain that this battle will last for stveral days. In order that thie fighting strength of Austria shall be eompletely crushed it {s necessary that the combined Austrian armies In Poland be annihilated, They are command by Gen. von Auffenberg, formerly: Minister of ‘War, and they were giving the Russian army very great annoyance until Gen. Rouzsky's victorious movement against Lemberg permitted the cut- ting of the lines of communication and threw von Auffenberg on his own Tesources, compelling him to abandon his offensive measures and resume the defensive. ‘The Germans have tried desperately to reinforce von Auffenberg, but @e far they have been unable to do so with any material force, Because of the danger of a junction being effected, however, the Russian General @te@ decided to annihilate the Austrians at once, and Lieut.-Gen. Yanu- @wkovich sent orders to Gen. Rouzsky to abandon for the present his pur- Vs ‘euit of the Austrian army defeated at Lemberg and to assail von Auffen- en the operations in Galicia continue under the personal di- rection of Grand Duke Nicholas, with Gen. Brussalof, who was successful a¢ Malies, in command of the direct operations ¥¢ fe stated here to-day that this army has already pushed forward Stty-one miles to Przemyal, the strongest fortification on the San River, whieh is gradually being surrounded, Heavy Russian sjege guns have Been posted to command the citadel and it was being shelled to-day. Mean- while the Russians will bridge the river to the south of tne city and will BELGIAN OUTPOST AWAITING GERMANS NEAR DIEST 7 if as successful as the Russian operations against Lemberg, will overthrow the Austrian forces and practically open the road to Berlin, saya: “Reliable information as to the progress of the battle enables me to state that the outlook is no whit less promising, but that several days may elapse before the final overthrow of the Austrian army. “The enemy disposes at least thirty divisions (360,000 men), besides several German corps, and will fight with the courage of despair. “On the East Prussian front there is nows of the appearance of part, attempt an enveloping movement. It is the intention of the General Staff not to waste too much time with fortified towns, The Russian army is so vast that it will be possible to detach overwhelming forces to besiege all Garrisoned fortifications and then sweep on toward Berlin and Vien! ‘without a halt, The Russian army operating in East Prussia to-day advanced against the strongly fortified positions held by the Germans along the River Deime, The Russian advance covers a wavering line that commences at Tilsit, northeast of the strong fortress of Koenigsberg, and extends across Poland, through Miaw, then west of Warsaw through the province of Radom into} Eastern Galicia, The Russians are besieging Koenigsberg, having mounted heavy siege guns to command the citadel. The Austrian ar:nies in Russian Poland are being pressed very hard nd the Germans are rushing reinforcements to their relief, The Aus- trigns have failed to make any decisive stand anywhere east of the San River. The German forces sent to reinforce the Austrians have fortified Dositions along the line of the San, but so far their artillery has not come up snd the Russian advance is being pushed in an attempt to carry the positions before they are made any more formidable. ‘The Russian expeditions to seize the passes of the Carpathian moun- tains, but especially the Borgo Pass, giving an entrance into Hungary, are Feperted as successful. It is also stated that the.entire Slav population of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bukowina have welcomed the invading Rysisans with open arms and expressed the hope that Russia will hence- forth retain the territory. “Desperate fighting continues along the front from Lublin to Kholm, where the Tenth Austrian Army Corps made am attempt to break through the Russian line,” an official statement issued here. “The Austrians were heavily repulsed and 6,009 were made prisoners, The Russians secured various Aocuments in which the Austrian Generals meée urgent appeals for help from Germany. “At Viotslavek a German armored train coming from Alexandrov at- tempted to shell the town, but was beaten off, An official communication issued in reply to statements of Berfin aod Vienna semi-official news agencies that the Austrians were victorious over the Russians in the districts of Zamosc and Tyschowszy says: “The Russian official agency is authorized to declare that the Russian who, since Aug. 21, have maintained an incessant offensive ageinat the enemy in the district between the Vistula and Bug Rivers, completely efeated on Aug. 28 the Fifteenth Austrian Division, and that up to Sept. 4, ~ continuing their operations in that direction, had captured 3 flags, 23 guns, | “16 machine guns, 2 seroplanes, 160 officers and 12,000 soldiers, “Bince Sept. 4, having broken the resistance of the Austrians, our troops have been continuing their offen toward the south. “AU reports concerning alleged victories of Gen. von Auffenberg near Zamese and Tyschowszy are wilful falsehoods and intended to lessen the importance of the Russian success in Gallela, where, In the direction of Lemberg alone, the Russians took rich booty, namely, 70,000 prisoners, more than 800 aah 80 locomotives, 150 trucks merous conveys of BOME (via Paris), Sept. 7 [Associated Press]—A Russian official re- pest received here says that thelr troops are gradually surro ing Preemsyl, a strong fortified town in Galicia, fifty-one miles west of Lem- berg, and that it will soon either be completely surrounded or taken sy Unofficial news which has reached here states that the Austrians etill continue their flight southwest of Lemberg and that everywhere the pursuing Russians collect arms and stores abandoned by the enemy, while whole de- tachments willingly ask to be made prisoners, saying the rigor of their offl- cara, together with the privations, make their life impossible, Refugees from Dalmatia, along the Austrian coast of the Adriatic Sea, say that life there 1s entirely paralyzed, The public service corporations, fmcluding the lighting plants, are out of commission and militarism reigns espotically everywhere. PARIS, Sept. 7 (Associated Press),—Aecording to advices received here f@ second Austrian army operating In front of Krasnosedow, in the Lublin region, has suffered great losses and Is now on the defensive, Some of the Avotrians have heen forced to retreat, if not the whole, of the Third, Bavarian army corps... Th installed at Allenstein, whic. is bess Teconnoitred by We MONTENEGRIN REPORT OF r OF AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN. ANTIVARI, Sept. 7 (United Press).—It Js officially announced that in addition to sending troops to aid the Montenegring, the French have sent a quantity of great siege guns, with experienced artillerymen to man them, to assist the Montenegrins in reducing the Cattaro fortifications. These guns have been mounted on Mount Lowcen and are already re- ducing the Cattaro fortifications, Meanwhile the British-French squadrons are bombarding the harbor forts, and it is believed the city must surrender within a short time. The French are very anxious to take the city, as it would give them a much needed naval base on the Adriatic. walry.” reer AUSTRIAN REPORT OF RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. VIENNA, via Rome, Sept. 7 (United Press].—The main Austrian army of invasion, commanded by Gens. Moritz von Auffenberg and Dankl, are desperately engaged to-day with an overwhelming Russian force between Hrubieszow, Russian Poland, and the Galician border. The Rilssians are endeavoring to overwhelm the Austrians before the main body of German reinforcements now being rushed from Graudenz and Thorn can reach the scene. The Russian troops are commanded by Gen. Rouzsky, who recently forced the Austrians to evacuate Lemberg, and it is stated here that the Russians outnumber the Austrians four or five to one. The Austrians have heavily entrenched and are fighting on the de- fense, Gen. von Auffenberg in his oficial report admits that his armies are hard pressed, but expresses the confident belief that they will be able to withstand the initial attack and finally drive back the assaulting columa. Although Gen. von Auffenberg’s forces are tard pressed, they are made up of the best forces in Austria, and the General Staff believes they will not only check the Russians, but will be able to administer a complete defeat so soon as the German reinforcements can get to the scene. The Galician situation is improving, The Austrian forces on the San River have been reinforced, and the Germans are bringing up their heavy guns with which to guard the points on the river where the enémy might make an attempt to ford it or to build pontoon bridges. The centre of the Russian attack is the fortifications at Przemysl, west of Lemberg. The Austrian position there is heavily fortified and new quns have been mounted which command a sweep of the river. An attempt of the Russians to lay pontoon bridges to the south was frustrated by a strong Austrian cavalry force, supported by artillery mounted on armored auto- fhobiles. These guns proved very effective and the Russian supply train ‘was completely destroyed. Austrian Dead at Shabats | Too Thick to Be Buried: LONDON, Sept. 7.-The Standard’s| ing else but a charnel house, I could correspondent at Nish has finally got] Bot say which of these two confilcts through, apparently uncensored, the} ¥4s the more r.urderous, but this fer- no WORLD, , Mom USSIANS CLATI CLAIM ROA DS TO BERLIN AND VIENNA ARE NOW OPE: first comprehensive description of the| tile region, with Its countless frutt slaughter of the Austrian army by the Bervians at the battle of Shabates, more than a fortnight ago, and the Austrian atrocities that accompanied it. This is the battle along the Drina and Save rivers, which sent the broken Austrian army in retrent out of Servia. “The fierce battle which the Ser- vians gave them (the Austrians) for more than a week," says the corre- @pondent, “may be divided into two! | connicts of equal intensity which raged along the ridge of heights of BRITISH REPOR® OF RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. 4 LONDON, Sept. 7 (Associated Press).—The correspe! it of the Times y sh Ueinapoaas'coter tate of Somber, bvecing ta s toile ied berms wate, seh ee ey Oe ascending, one to <ie River Save and) the town of Shabats and the other to he River Drina, which is now noth- eral 4 Tser, on each of the two slopes de- | trees, is now sheltering the last re- mains of hundreds of butchered m worsen and children, whose corp: can be seen everywhere, TOLL OF DEAD SO GREAT THEY LIE UNBURIED. “When, after three days and three nights of truceless fighting, the Ser- vians succeeded in surprising the enemy in the middie of the night at 1 aeate the toll of dead was so colossal the Servian troops were con | strained for the time being to aban- don burying the co e heaps ut di t it is ab- 8 the trail “ ywhere the fighting the flercest nature, for to r invaders meant ie, the we Serv’ me a quent ion of life or deat! . points they DAY SEBPTEMBE Bresy weer ‘Ser Diny News SEM OG: ORE THE BS. RT, 1916. LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Chroni- ecle’s Petrograd correspondent says that the remnant ef the Austrian army from Lemberg is reported to be |fortifying Jarosiaw (at the junction lof the ‘River San and the Galician Railways, sixty miles northwest o! Lemberg on the way to Cracow), The correspondent adds that although the nature of the ground may retard the Russian pursuit, the Auetrians are @ bea army. “It js another atage on the way to Prussia,” says the despatch, “amd it has reassured the public, which was unable to understand the siowners of loperations on the Russian western | frontier. “The Russians have 2,000,000 men | Seized by LONDON, Sept. 7.—The St, Petera- burg correspondakt ‘of the Post in an articlo dealing with the capture of Lemberg and Halica, says: “The establishment of Russian au- thority in this region Is being enor- mously facilitated by the fact that the native Slav population, after long experience with the tyrannical policy of Germaniam in time of peace, wel comed the advent of the Ruasians even under (he stern’ conditions of war, “The Lemberg victory \s @ signal triumph for the daring strategy of the Russian commander in chief and en- tirely reconciles the public to the se- vere censorship which enabled bim to carry out protracted rations over a vast territory without the en- emy getting a single hint to give them 6 alarm. That the Russian forces, during the preparation of their real attack, were merely playing with the Aus- OFA MILE FROM on iehs AT THAT BAG <e the last man, succumbing, but never falling buck. “The volunteer Tankopsitch, a famous leader whose head Austria te so anxious to gain, ‘was charged to defend Kroupuge, sit- uated south of the battle front be- tween Losnitsa and Lionbovia. Con- siderable Aystrian forces attempted ae Chg with @ view to oe the back, For two days and ts | ingore and ie vol- unteers he po “iy tate three whole Austrian sey them, but rat! er them yield to o snomy Tankositoh and hie Gallen iature army re- eolved to taht to the last. In the dead of night he sent out a mere handful of men to meet the Austrians. This group hurled a shower of bombs at the evemy, Php songs up their gird q pecuring 8 ree passage. the first break of day when TFankomten I counted his men only eid B they | surrpun: -wIxX an~ led ~more nearest town to the flold of battle, large masses of Servian and Austrian wounded keep pouring in incessantly. About 10,000 already ha’ rrived. All had to be examined and all had to have wounds dressed; and at Vallevo there are only six doctors, “Yesterday a cart drawn by oxen brought to the hospital at Vallevo its heavy load of mutilated flesb. In the first section were three wounded Aus- tria od in tl econd two wounded Servians and two more Austrians. The conyoys wanted to carry their Aua- trian wounded to the dreasing room before their own wounded, The Ser- vian doctor stopped them. ‘Brag the wounded in the order in which they come,’ he commanded, and ./ithout any regard for the nationality of the patients the doctor and his colleagues comppenced thelr work, e whole of Servia is atali with blood, the whole country ove: run with atrocities and crimes co: the invading Austi bat then are the ing for? Why do they not come h BAYS AUSTRIANS, RETREATING, BUTCHERED PRISONERS. “f wanted to witness the Austro- Hungarian excesses & second time be- fore a] ing of them, so that I could give ap exact and eevine account of the sous facts. Courage failed me oan the epvivene. of Shabats the trhi ut the finish- te of fearful savagery by but ‘ing their Servian prisoners, Whose corpses were found heaped up in the town, “Further porth, varely forty miles| from Valievo, at Seablatcha, refugees who had fied from thelr houses be-| fore the onslaught of the Austrians! showed me elght young people tied one to another who were all pierced by bayonets. “Five miles from there, at Bella Tserka, fugitives of the village with indescribable despair were burying fourteen littl girls, of whom the old- was only sixteen, Most of them had t abdomens ripped aod throats cut. ‘It is not war that Austria-Hun- gary has made on Servie. ly that great nation the Servian Paouik, 3 affirm that they re 0 burn all the in the most savage manner | conceivable. “The Servian Quartermaster-Gen- eral is drawing up an official list of Austro-Hungarian crimes.” ‘ Seat GERMAN AND AMERICAN | VESSELS ARE CAPTURED BY BRITISH WARSHIPS. SHANGHAI, Sept. 7 (Axsociated Press).—Hongkong reports the arrival there of @ number of prizes, including the American steamer Hanamet and the German steamers Paklat, Frisia and Rajaburi. ‘The prise erew of the Paklat held the German engineers at for three days at the point o| and ated an attempt to disuble| the engines. The American revolvi mer Hapamet ts) nd is owned by ‘The Pallat and| corps of Capt. |" Norte “flag day," according to despatebes, trian advance into undefended Poland German Lloyd, the former being of 227 tons burden and the Rajaburt 1189 ons. The is a whip of 3,150 tone, Both the Hanomet nnd the Frisia have | previously orted as having been | pelzed. The Hanemet is sunperted at carrying contr Katz, Consut LONDON (by mall to New York), Aug. 29.—(United Press).—Not to be outdone by Tommy Atkins, who has adopted @ war song in a Long Way to Tipperary,” the British suilore now have as their favorite “All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor,” ‘The chorus of the war song of the British tars follows: All the nice girls love a sailor, All the nice girls love a tar; Pocisicdnions athe GERMANS MUST BE MAD, SAYS DEPOSED DICTATOR OF MEXICO IN ENGLAND. LONDON, by mail to New York, Sept, 7 (United Press).—Before leaving Eng- land for Spain Gen. Victoriano Huerta, deposed dictator ¢ that he had a tion in-smind when. aske ment regarding the Kuropean war. reply wai “The Germans must be mad.” 1, you know what sailors are. Retreating Austrians Beaten Army, Says Lona Direct Route to Budapest — Here Are New War Songs — Of British Troops and Taré For there's something about a aallor— Vv The London Times takes this fling at those backward in enlisting: “Wanted: petticoats for all able-bodied youths in this country who have not yet Joined the Navy or Army The War OMce in London has at least one woman despatch rider, though when she first volunteered her services we! leclined, Bhe is « motor cyclist, and soon after she had n turned down she found three men without any tdea how to repair th which had broken down, She made the nece she was accepted, jury repairs and again volunteered, This time ' When Austrian aviators descended at Ramen on the Austro-Russlan frontier, women of the village captured them. The Austrians threatened to ghoot, but the women rushed in and overpowered them. Jules Vedrines, the French airman, is chafing because he ts not al- lowed more activity than nnoitering for aps and artillery, “If only they would let me go and leave my visiting card with Emperor Wiliam!" he said, When a waitrens in Hubin’s restaurant was asked why ahe hadn't left Paris she replied: “Why, L would not leave Paris for a million!” Following a style used by the Hritish against the Boers, Russian Cos- sacks have painted all their white and gray horses gr ao they will harmonize with the foliage and make their movements invisible to scouting aeroplanes, Several large halls are to be equipped by the Red Cross In Berlin for serving nourishing meals to needy people for ten pfennixs, or two and one. half centa, Two of them, accommodating 6,000 persona dally, have al- ready been opened, The Germans levied @ tribue of $400,000 on the city of Amiens, but tt was the additional 3,000 bottles of wine and 8,000 cigars they demanded that seemed to burt A number of women nurses have left Folkstone for the front attired In riding breeches, spurs, long coats and helmets ike those worn in the tropica, Their duties will be to ride over battlefields, look for the wounded, and render firat ald until other nurses arrive to take away the stricken soldiers, The British sprong something new on the Germans during the fighting at St. Quentin, When the Scots Greys charged, every troper had a man of the Heventy-fourth Scots Infantry—the Black Watch—hanging to his stirrup leathers, The weight of the horses carried the infantrymen far into the ranks of the Germane, where the Scots, horse and foot, inflicted terrible losses, German sp.es are reported aw thick as fies tn moat parts of Europe, In places where ten a day are sometimes shot, there are sometimes double that number within a few hours, Two German asples were arrested in Sielly disguised os beggars, with plans and photographs of fortifications. lAt Re » the police found a concealed wireless station on the terrace of a German hotel. A German spy arrested in Bellevue had taken possession of an empty Villa by means of false keys, and was signalling information to Germans approaching Paris with a bicycle lamp. The allies have discovered that Germans are not fond of ewimming. When Belgians cut the dikes around Termonde and flooded the country, the Germans were taken completely by surprise, Many who could not swim climbed trees, from which they were icisurely picked by soldiers who came around and took thelr surrender. The firgt Russian soldier to enter Berlin will win a purse of 6100,000, which was contributed for the purpose by the people of St. Petersburg on ee * Fg actually in the field, and ott huge, leisurely machine of nN continuse te grind aut brigades. Russia means to keep word te Europe.” The big reserves of m Lemberg account tor ber of guns reported Official statement gives the at 2,000, most of which are guns, and 30,000,000 number of prisosers, bt yp je still unknown, Prussia, the eort 41 briety—a level and indomitable nimity of temper never the Russians be sately assumed from that when the Austria) Povey finally attempt a forward they only covered twi from Zavikhoft to Op time the Russian forces fought more than seven Gmes distance. “As I understand the eitt Austrian main armies by adequate Russian front. The Austrian centre is and her right wing is demolisi “The Russians fave o position as has been them since they left Podelta, ‘asion of Galicia. ‘On the East Prissiag ing important the last few day: dent, therefore, that Germany. hurried troops to the eesterm tier from the west, not on the Russian eng bog Be in East but in order to help the a “The spirit of the Rugian excellent and events on * are moving with great ra f de ig for Arise. ¥ He's the la Jack, ahoy! Sate The chorus of the esidiew berary song, which promises te come famous, goes: a Jong way to Ti long —t, to oO dee bwastoet, Goodby, Plecadilly; Farewell, Leicester Ite @ long, lot to BRITISH CRUISER . AND LINER SUN: : BY FLOATING MINES Loss of Lisson on Pathfinder U on Runo Go Down, LONDON, Sept. 1.—The crulser Pathfinder of the Beithe®, has been biown up by a mise ae North Sea, Tho loss of tite ~e definitely known. ‘The paymaster, Sidney W, was killed, and the commanéer, Francis Leake, was Junior officers and two petty are minsin, The Pathfinder was scout crulser of 2,040 tena ment and speed of twenty-five She called for 8 complement of 908. men, The Pathfinder and her sigter the Patrol, were completed tm zach carried nine four-inch gums, The length of the Pathfinder was feet. armor was one-half five-eightha inches, Nearly 900 persons reseusé we the Wilson liner Runo hy when the steamship wae gunk is @Re North Sea by @ contact mipe o'clock Saturday afternoon have landed at Grimeby and Heit. prompt work of four trewieta, Silanton, Strethon, Cameo Prince Victor, saved the lives nearly all those on board. Wilson line officials @ey all crew and all but Sweaty ts paeeneyry rs oltttert"? u Fit ane could hold, vane oe nearly a hundred and o otkar trawlers seventy. a sh le VAS ¥ = een) AS Bs Constipatio