EVACUATION OF LEMBERG REPORTED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 16 October 1914, Page 5

EVACUATION OF LEMBERG REPORTED.

EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS IN

POLAND

FOUR GERMAN ARMIES IN THE

FIELD

TURKEY TAKING A HAND

BLACK SEA FLEET TO BE

ATTACKED

THREATENED RAID ON RUSSIAN

COAST. *

NAVAL FIGHTING REPORTED

THE HAGUE, Oct. 15

: The Austrian Legation states that the Russians evacuated Lemberg, after a fierce fight.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 15

Grand Duke Nicholas has announced that the battle front of the main Russian: and German forces extends from Przemysl to Warsaw, with the Vistula arid the San dividing the two lines. Elsewhere, he stated, the Russian right rests on the fortress of Novo Georgievsk. Already aeroplanes are dropping bombs in Warsaw, and cannon can be heard in the city. The indications are that Germany has four armies against the Russians. The first operates from Thorn to Gnesen. ■ ' ! ' The second, under General Lindenberg, concentrates at Kalisch, and now has his front on Mszceonow, Skierniewice and Growec. The third, under the King of Bavaria, is operating from Kielee. The fourth, an Austro-German army based on Cracow, under the German General Dankl, has advanced along the Vistula to Opatow and Sandomierz. A forward;" German movement from the 27th September, a strategic deployment, concluded on 3rd October, when the Germans occupied the front, [Kielee, Piotrkow and Lodz, with the Thorn army at Plock covering the left wing. The Thorn army apparently, contemplates an enveloping movement*.on the right bank of the Vistula, despite the fact that the marshy banks of the Bug .and Narew present serious-obstacles to. the attempt.. . \ . The Russians' plan bears a general resemblance to General Jonre's,- inasmuch as it compels the Germans to fight some distance from their own highly-developed network of railways, j which, with the efficiency of their trans-1 port, would increase the enemy's mobility to degree equivalent to a great! multiplication of forces. Cossacks brought down a Zeppelin near Warsaw, and captured it intact. ROME, Oct. 15. A Constantinople telegram states that the commander of, the Goeben aims at attacking the Russian Black Sea fleet, and threatens to raid the Russian coast. A message from Bucharest states that heavy cannonading was heard throughout the whole of Wednesday off Constariza. '" It was believed that the Goeben and •Breslau were fighting the Russian fleet. THE HAGUE, Oct. 15. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Sir Edward Mallet, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, has requested the ladies of the Embassy to leave Constantinople.