RUSSIA'S MOVEMENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16646, 3 September 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA'S MOVEMENT.

' THE APPEAL TO POLES. ROUSING RACE SENTIMENT. GERMAN SUBJECTS RESPONDING. By T6:egraph~p rtßs Association-Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, September 1. Russia's overtures to the Poles have had an extraordinary effect on the German Poles, . U j 8 ate d here' that Poles belong- ? g t0 _ the ' Sixth Breslau (German) Army Corps when approaching Namur, mutinied and killed their officers. Slav regiments.in the Austrian service are disaffected Ji *W AUSttian Anient with band and colours wentf oyer to the Russians.

FIGHTING IN GALICIA. HUGE AUSTRIAN LOSS. LONDON, September 1. The Rome correspondent of the "Daily News" sends his journal a report that tho Austrians i liave lost twenty thousand men in Galicia. RUSSIANS AGGRESSIVE. LONDON, September 1. Rome advices state that the Russians are maintaining all positions and continuing on the aggressive. PETROGRAD. RUSSIAN CAPITAL RENAMED. ST PETERSBURG, September 1. By an Imperial order St Petersburg has boon renamed Petrogrnd. This eliminates the German word. KAISER GOES EAST. THE HAGUE, September 1. It is reported that the Kaiser has gone to tho Russian frontier. AUSTRIAN ROUT IN GALICIA. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WOUNDED. WHOLE REGIMENTS DESTROYED. BATTLE EXPECTED TO PROVE DECISIVE. (Received September 2, 7.50 p.m.) ROME, September 1. Bucharest messages state that the Austrian defeat in Galicia was colossal. Trains are transporting tens of thousands of wounded. Numerous regiments were destroyed and the Landwehr and Landsturm are replacing them. The Roumanian General Staff declares that the battle will be found decisive.