LEMBERG FALLS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 7

LEMBERG FALLS

OCCUPIED BY THE RUSSIANS AUSTRIAN? GREAT LOSSES HUNDRED MILES OF ENTRENCHMENTS FRENCH TROOPS STREAMING INTO THE CITY RUSH OF RECRUITS IN LONDON MR. ASQUITH'S INSPIRITING SPEECH

To-day's messages are silent ais to the doings in the theatre round Paris. The opposing forces have not been in touch since Wednesday. French troops are said to/ be pouring into the city, and that the enemy's intention is to strike a blow before the garrison settles down. The President^ Cabinet Ministers, and Ambassadors have gone to the new seat of Government at Bordeaux. The anniversary of Sedan was celebrated in Berlin. In this connection the New York Tribune pertinently remarks that Sedan Day, J. 914, sees Germany exultant, but what about Sedan Day, 1915 or 1916? An idea of how modern warfare is conducted is conveyed by a lance-corporal of the Connaught Rangers, who states that, though bullets dropped like drops, for three days the enemy was not seen. At a meeting at the Guildhall in London, England's Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has again made it clear that Great Britain would have been basely false to her plighted word if she had stood aloof while heroic Belgium's independence was being strangled. Britain had striven for peace, and Germany alone was responsible for the war. The Russian Army has occupied Lemberg, the capital of Galicia. A tactical move by the Austrians was attended by a whole series of disasters to them. It is officially stated that the Austrians lost 60,000 prisoners. Russia has notified Germany of her intention to levy upon every German town a contribution double that which Germany exacted from Belgian towns. Stories of German brutalities are accumulating. At Louvain the inhabitants were shot haphazard. Italy has added her protest to that of the United States against these repeated violations of international law. ' Turkej' has refused entrance to the Dardanelles to an American warship carrying relief funds for stranded Americans. There has been a great rush of recruits in London, the authorities being unable to cope with it. Despite this, further appeals for more men are being made.