ENORMOUS CAPTURE OF PRISONERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1914, Page 7

ENORMOUS CAPTURE OF PRISONERS

ALSO OF SUPPLIES. PETROGRAD, 6lh September. The Russians between the Vistula and Bug Rivers, in Galicia, captured, since 28th August, three flags, twenty guns, eighteen machine guns, 150 officers, and twelve thousand soldiers. They made seventy thousand prisoners in the direction of Lemberg alone, and also captured three hundred guns, thirty locomotives, 150 trucks, and numerous convoys of supplies. Besides this, they secured twelve months' provisions when they seized Lemberg. The Austro-Hungarian Czech soldiers have refused to march against the Slavs. The Russians attacked a German division marching to the Austrians' help on the left bank of the Vistula. The Russians have occupied the Stryj district, forty miles south of Lemberg. CULMINATION OF DARING STRATEGY PETROGRAD, 7th September (Morning). The Russians' victory at Lemberg was the culmination of daring secret strategy. Russia allowed the Austrians to advance in Russian Poland in the direction of Lublin and Kholm. In the meanwhile, two Russian armies started from the frontier, at points four hundred miles apart, and converged on Lemberg, the northern from Poland and the eastern from Podolia and Bessarabia. In the latter regian the Austrians had entrusted the defence to strong bodies of troops in fortified camps. The Austrians continued to concentrate on the Russian right Hank, believing they had discovered an opening. They only saw the trap when the combined Russian armies reached Cnita Lipa, and then it was too late.

The Austrian defeat between Lublin and Kholm placed the main army in a critical position, and it was now forced to retire southwards, and was in grave danger of being cut off by the victorious army from Lemberg. The Russians threaten three sides of the extensive marshes, and impede retreat on the fourth side between the San and Vistula Rivers. GERMANS EVACUATE RUSSIAN POLAND FRONTIER PETROGRAD, 7th September (Morning). The Germans are gradually evacuating the frontier districts of Russian Poland. A squadron of_ the Crown Prince's (late "Death's Head") Hussars, from Danzig, under Major Count Stolberg, hurriedly left Petvican and met Russian Hussars, who, after a fierce skirmish, cut them in pieces, only a few escaping. All the officers were killed. A Zeppelin airship was shot down near Jeiads. It contained two staff and two artillery officers, and twenty-six men. All were made prisoners, and tho bombs and other explosives captured. PETROGRAD. 7th September. The defences of Halicz, which the Russians have occupied, consisted of ten infantry redoubts ami six battery emplacements. On one side of the Cnita Lipa were six redoubts, and six emplacements on the 'other side. The works were held by ten thousand, but the Russians quickly carried them. WASHINGTON, 6th September. The British Embassy announces that the Russians are about to enter Central Germany.