BIG BATTLE FRONT RUSSIANS, AUSTRIANS, AND GERMANS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 93, 16 October 1914, Page 7

BIG BATTLE FRONT RUSSIANS, AUSTRIANS, AND GERMANS

DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES. PETROGRAD, 15th October. The Grand Duke Nicholas, Commane der-in-Ohief of the Russian Army, an nounces that the battlefront of the main Russian and German forces extends from Przemysl to Warsaw, with the Vistula and the San dividing the two lines. Elsewhere it is stated that the Russian Right rests on the fortress Novoe Gecrgiewsk, twenty miles north-west of Warsaw. Already aeroplanes are dropping bombs on Warsaw, and connon can be heard at Chitty. There are indications that Germany has four armies : the first came from th« fortresses of Thorn and Gnesen ; tho «econd, under General yon Hindenberg, was concentrated at Kalisz, on the frontier opposite Warsaw, and is now on the front, Skierniewice— 'Mszconow — Grojec, south-west of Warsaw ; vhe third army, under the King of Bavaria, is operating from Kielce ; while an Austro-German army, based on Cracow, is under the German General yon Dankl, and has advanced along the Vistula to Opatow and Sandomierz, near the Galician frontier. The forward German movement began on 27th September and the strategic deployment concluded on 3rd October, when the Germans occupied a front, Kielce — Piotrkow — Lodz, with the Thorn Army at Plock covering the left wing. The Thorn aimy apparently contemplates an enveloping movement on the right bank of the Vistula, despite the fact that the marshy banks of the Bug and Narew Rivers are serious obstacles to the .attempt. The Russian plan bears a general resemblance to General Joffre's inasmuch as it compels the Germans to fight at a distance from their own highly developed network of railways which with the efficiency of motor transport would increase the enemy's mobility to a degree equivalent to a great multiplication of their forces. RUSSIANS EVACUATE LEMBERG THE HAGUE, 14th October. The Austrian Legation here states that the Russians" evacuated Lembers, the capital of Galicia, after a fierce fight. COSSACKS CAPTURE A ZEPPELIN. PEROGRAD, 14th October. Cossacks brought down a Zeppelin l.ear Warsaw, and captured it intact.