THE CALICIAN CAMPAIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 15600, 17 September 1914, Page 6

THE CALICIAN CAMPAIGN.

THE ADVANCE THROUGH LEMBERO. CLEVER RUSSIAN STROKE. FORTRESSES AVOIDED. PETROGRAI), September 16. (Received. September 17, at 9 a.m.) The BuFwaviß ai« crossing the river San immediately behind the. retreating Austrian*. They avoided the upper and shallower reaches of thf» river, which are guarded by the fortresses of Jaroslav and Przemyal." the construction of which cost many millions, and are thus installed in a riverine triangle, amidst a considerable! quantity of Austrian stores. The "Aiistrians are greatly flustered at this unexpected passage of the Russians | to a district where they had hoped to rest | after a series, of cruel defeats. ITALY'S NEUTRALITY. RUSSIA'S HINT. •'COME OFFTHK FEXCF. " '•OX OUR SIDE." *• PETROGRAD, September 16. (Received September 17. at 9 a.m.) The ' Wratsh' remarks: "Ruwiaand her Allien would willingly sec Trent and Trieste become Italian porU. The concentration of Austrian troops on the Italian frontier and Austrian interference in Albania, are sufficient to warrant Italy in joining the Triple Entente." AX AUSTRIAN ADMISSION. ROME," September 16. (Received September 17. at 9 a.m.) . II is officially admitted in Trieste that 15,000 eokliers' from Trieste and Trent, mostly Italiar.-spenkinj? Austrians, fighting, in the first, line, were killed m recent Galician battle*. SERVIAN SUCCESS. j NISH. September 16. , (Received September 17, at 9.50 a.m.) The Servian- have occupied Vishuegrad. WELL FKD AT LAST. GERMAN PIIISOXERS IN ENGLAXD. LONDON, September 16. (Received September 17, at 9.50 a.m.) A thousand German prisoners have been cent to special prison camps at Aldershot, Dorchester, and elsewhere. They are receiving full army rations. DUM-DUM BULLETS. Mil ASQUITH'S THEORY. LONDON, September 16. (Received September 17, at 9.15 a.m.) Mr Aequith, in the House of Commons, promised an inquiry into the statements of the wounded in the hospitals concerning German violations of the laws of civilised warfare. Ho suggested that the accusations of the use of dum-dum bullets on both sides were due to the fact that the long-pointed bullets caused more serious and jagged wounds when fired at close ranges than any form of expanding bullets, probalr because the pointed . bullets turn sideways often in piercing the flesh. GERMAN CHIVALRY. A TYPICAL™XHIBITION OF HIS ATTITUDE 10 HIS FRAU. COPENHAGEN, September 16. The newspapers in Berlin publish a number of letters from the field complaining bitterly of the reports that German .TUUHfitt fInJL ba*«. r*caived the French,^

and Russian prisoners with kindness, and have even given them small presents of food and tobacco.

One German writes: "In the name of my comrades, who ace shedding their blood for these unnatural women, I express the deepest regret. We are all filled with disgust for such behaviour. Women like this ought to be put in front of the troops, that they might feel in their own bodies what our lot is." AUSTRALIAN CADETS. SERVICEB~ACOEPTED. LONDON, September 16. (Received September 17, at 9.15 a.m.) The Colonial Secretary (Mr Harcourt), in reply to Mr Barrie, M.P., said the Government had accepted the generous offer of an Australian mounted cadet contingent's services for the remaining period of their stay in England. He had communicated with the War Office, with a view to the employment of this efficient body in some useful and congenial duty. JAPAN CLOSING IN. RAILWAY STATION CAPTURED. TOKIO, September 16 (evening). (Received September 17, at 10.5 a.m.) The Japanese captured the Kiao-chau railway station on Sunday. THI-: SACK OF AERSOBOT. AS TOLD BY A WOMAN. LONDON, September 16. (Received September 17. Nt 10.15 a.m.) Louise Mack, the Antwerp correspondent of the 'Evening News,' describes the horrors at Aerschpt. In the cathedral, on (he high altar, sirs- saw many empty wine and beer bottles. The offertory box had lx'cn stolen and replaced with a beer bottle. Bottles of filth were cveiywhere. Tho Madonna's head had been cut off, a Jar'e crucifix burnt, the altar brocades were slashed, pictures chopped from their frames, and a dead pi ; : was found on one side of a chapel. These outrages were the work of drunken soldiers. Street atfer street at, Aersehot-was destroyed, and they ai<> now blackend ruins. At a chemist's shop tho Germans mixed all the drags together and shot the burgomaster's two children. A German colonel was shot in the burgomaster's servant's room from the outside "of the building, it is supposed by the girl's sweetheart. The girl and her swain were instantly executed. ROYAL EXCHANGE RESUMES. GOVERNMENT AND RAILWAYS. LONDON. September 16. (Received September 17, at 10.5 a.m.) The Royal Exchange reopens tomorrow and resumes foreign business. The Government have to compensate the railway companies to the extent of their aggregate net receipts while the Government are in possession, if these fall diort of the receipts for the corresponding period of 191 c.