GERMANS TO DEFEND PRZEMYSL TO THE UTTERMOST
FIGHT BEGUN BETWEEN RIVAL ARTILLERY FORCES.
AUSTRIAN SLAV GENERAL COURT-MARTI ALL.ED AND.SHOT.
Peteogead, September 21.
Three German army corps have been concentrated in a fortified position in the vicinity of Przemysl with orders to defend it to the uttermost to enable the German forces gathering at Posen to arrange for a general forward movement. A fight between the rival artillery forces has commenced at Przemysl.
It is officially stated that the Austrians endeavoured to arrest the Russian advance along the Baranoff-Rainshoff front, but were repulsed with great loss. The Russian siege guns bombarded Grostav.
During the battle of Lemberg the Austrian*, after hoisting the white flag, treacherously shot down General Frolve, hero of Port Arthur. The infuriated Russians sabred them unsparingly.
A telegram from Vienna, received at Rome, states that the Austrians court-martialled and shot General Vodinavski, of Slav origin, who was accused of spying, and also a Slav stationmastef at Lemberg. It is reported that General Frorfich, who was removed from the command of a cavalry division which was nearly annihilated, committed suicide.
Przemysl is a fortified town in Galicia on the River San. Posen is 102 miles east of Frankfurt, and a first-class German fortress.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 7
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