POLAND INVADED.
AUSTRIAN ARMY'S ADVANCE MARCHING FROM CRACOW. London*, August 11. The Press Bureau is responsible for the statement that an Austrian array is advancing from Cracow, in Galicia, near the Russian frontier, upon Kielce. an important centre in the south of Russian Poland. Cracow is an important town of 91,000 inhabitants in Austrian Galicia, clo«> to llio Russian frontier. Situated on the left hank of the Vistula, which flows through Russian Poland into the Baltic Sea, it occupies a position of great, strategical importance About 70 miles from Cracow is Kielce, a, town of 20,000 inhabitants, in Russian Poland, and the capital of the Government of Kielce. It is 152 miles by rail south of Warsaw.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 7
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