IN FULL FLIGHT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16664, 24 September 1914, Page 7

IN FULL FLIGHT.

TIJE AUSTRIAN RETREAT. PETROGRAD, September 22. The Austrian retreat in Galicia was so rapid that the Russians had to cover twenty-five miles a day to keep in touch. The Austrians turned back at one point on the San, but the Russians, throwing three pontoons over, dashed across, A fierce hand-to-hand struggle followed. The cavalry’s horses were shot down and the men’s legs were shattered, but they continued to fire as they lay on the ground. At length a bayonet charge put the Austrians to flight. DIMITRIEFF DECORATED. FOUGHT AGAINST" HEAVY ODDS., General Dimitrieff has been decorated for his brilliant and successful resistance to the Austrians’ attempt to recapture Lemberg. He was four days and nights fighting against odds of four to one. AUSTRIAN ARMY SHATTERED. AN ITALIAN REPORT. * NO RALLY TILL SPRING. ROME, September 22. A telegram from Petrograd states that the pursuit of tho broken Austrian Armv and the fact thlat a fresh defeat has been inflicted during the retreat convince the Russian, headquarters that Austria will be unable to resume the offensive in Galicia until next spring. WOMEN FIGHTINGS. PETROGRAD, September 22. Mimy women are among the prisoners captured in tho fighting on the East Prussian frontier. Cossacks seized over one hundred at Willenberg. One woman of seventy, maddened at tho loss, of her sons and grandsons, climbed to the belfry of a church and fired on thei Russians with a machine gun. She was wounded fifteen tunes before being captured. SERAJEVO TAKEN. AUSTRIANS OVERWHELMINGLY DEFEATED. Tlie following cablegram has been received from the High Commissioner: LQNDON, September 22 (3.30 p.m.). The Servians and Montenegrins have occupied Serajevo, which was abandoned by tlie Austrians after an overwhelming defeat. (Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, is an important post. Hero the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated.) SIEGE OF SERAJEVO. AUSTRIAN SORTIE REPULSED. (Received September 24, 12.30 a.m.) ROME, September 22. A report from Nish states that tho Montenegrins and Servians formed a firing line about Serajevo with a radius of eight kilometres. The first Austrian sortie was repulsed and the siege has begun. , . Prince George of Servia is in hospital with a bullet in his chest, re-, ceived while leading a charge. , THE PRUSSIAN CANCER, ATTITUDE OF BRITISH STATESMEN. (Received September 24, 1.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD, September 22. The “Novoe. Vremya” reproaches British statesmen with not insisting on. the complete crushing of Germany. It adds: “It is necessary that Europe should burn out the Prussian cancer with redliot irons.” HUNGARIAN REGIMENT ANNIHILATED. PETROGRAD, September 22. Die Russians have occupied Jaroslav, north of Przemysl. It is announced that the fiftieth Hungarian regiment was completely annihilated, only three officers and twenty men regaining their lines. • A PRESENT FROM JAPAN. SUPPLANTING GERMAN COMPANIES. PETROGRAD, September 22. Japan has presented surgical instruments to the value of £2OOO to Russia. During the past twenty years Germany has established forty-six companies engaged in electro-metallurgical mining works in Russia, with a capital of nine millions sterling. It is hoped that these will now be supplanted by | British.

ALLEGATIONS DENIED. “ Times" and Sydney “ Sun ” Services. (Received September 23, 5.40 p.m.) PETROGRAD, September 22. An official statement denies the allegations of burning German villages and shooting the inhabitants. There were exceptional cases where villagers fired at the Russians and, just reprisals were ordered. RUMANIAN SYMPATHY WITH ALLIES. (Received September 23, 5.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 22. Bucharest papers express satisfaction at the success of the Allies.