A COMPLETE ROUT
AUSTRIANS EVACUATE GALICIA GERMANS ALSO RETREATING (Received September 19, 8.20 a.m.) ™ . . . . „ . . LONDON, 17th September. The Austrians are evacuating Gahcia in a state of complete rout. The German corps which reinforced the Austrians is now retreating. CAUSE OF AUSTRIAN LOSSES (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received September 19, 8 a.m.) t, , , 4 it L iV LONDON, 18th September. jFetrograd reports attribute the enormous Austrian losses largely to the fact that raw Landsturm troops are often placed in the firing line. In the recent fighting at Josefow Russian cavalry enveloped the Austrian flank before it was able ta deploy, while the Cossack batteries mowed down the entire formations of the leading companies. Whole battalions bolted and hid in the woods. Badly-driven and ill-horsed . batteries made a feeble attempt to unlimber, and all the gunners perished Ihere are indications that the shattered Austrians are retreating towards" GerStrc? l^ ° ° * UIM ih&y ai ' e I>einforce d by fresh [Josefow is on the Vistula in Poland, and is just south of the confluence of that river and its tributary the Kamieano, and about twenty-five mile7no?th wertVffbE? and tho San> llfc is thirfcy miles »«*£3£
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 70, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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191A COMPLETE ROUT Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 70, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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