VIENNA STRONGLY ENTRENCHED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 119, 16 November 1914, Page 7

VIENNA STRONGLY ENTRENCHED

CITY FILLED WITH REFUGEES STRONG FEELING AGAINST GERMANY (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received November 16, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 15th November. Vienna has been strongly entrenched, and surrounded by high tension electric wires. The city is filled up with refugees. Food is very dear, and supplies are dwindling. There is a strong feeling against Germany. It is predicted that the Viennese will seek terms of peace the moment the sound of the Eussian guns is heard. A RUMOUR FROM AMERICA NEW YORK, 13th November In financial circles it is believed that Austria has asked the United States to approach the Allies unofficially, asking what terms would be allowed Austria if she abandoned Germany and sued for peace independently. RUSSIAN VEDETTES CLOSE TO CRACOW (Received November 16, 9 a.m.) PETROGRAD, 15th November. Russian vedettes (mounted scouts) are within thirteen miles of Cracow. RUSSIAN PROGRESS IN EAST PRUSSIA PETROGRAD, 14th November. Official. — Our progress in East Russia continues. We captured five howitzers at Soldau. Fighting continues at Stalluponen (on the east frontier of Eastern Prussia) and for the possession of the eastern chain of the Masurian Lakes. A German offensive movement has commenced from Thorn, on both banks of the Vistula, towards Wloclawek. The German are moving towards the frontier. For several weeks six thousand workmen have been engaged 'day and night perfecting the defences of Thorn. The armament includes a thousand guns, 60 per cent, of which are long-range weapons. The Russians have occupied Tarnow. A RUSSIAN ASSAULT [Soldau is in Eastern Prussia, north-north-west of Warsaw and about five Pass on the night of 11th November. The Austrians have retreated. The Russians assaulted a, fortified position held by Austrians near the Uzsok miles north of the frontier. Thorn is a powerful German fortress on the Vistula, ten miles from the Russian frontier; and Wloclawek is on the same river, thirty-five miles to the south-east. Tamo.v is an important point on the railway which runs eastward through Galicia from Jaroslav to Cracow and German Silesia, 'and is less than fifty miles from Cracow. The Uzsok Pass crosses the Carpathians fifty miles due south of Przemysl.] ,