RUSSIAN PLANS FOR THE INVASION OF GERMANY.
PROBABLE ADVANCE ON THE CAPITAL jOF SItESIA;- • AUSTRIAN ARMY BEING DRIVEN 'SOUTHWARD.' i tt- . , V. Rome, September 30*!"".■ -b • A telegram from Vienna states that the Russians have'lpft ' ' Przemysl completely surrounded. Two columns are' advancing rapidly 1 ' along the railways of Galicia.) - -,-, .'. -■•' - . ..\ ; ;,, .....^ V'.-. The northern, column has made an assault upon Tarnow, and the""'f;', ' southern having occupied Sanok, is advancing westward 'to ' cut -off aT* section of Austrian& wbichijthe r southward. ' '* ' '"■'. »\-v" •/••■.■' ■;■. . /[ \: ..:'..*'. \ ", ' .',' There is every indication that the Russians do not-intend to -" capture Cracow, but will invest it similar to Przemysl, advance upon '■ Breslau,. the capital, of the German province of Silesia, and junction ... > with the Russian centre for the invasionof Germany. ' ...--. Tarnow is situated in Galicia, 164 miles north-west. of. Lemberg by rail, .''A? between Przemysl and Cracow. . ' ."* ' ■~'..'. 7 ;.--.J -'v ; : Sanok lies about 30 miles south-west of Przemysl, and about 15 miles from : the Hungarian border. , ' A "" "■'&? '-/-*'-•'•" •'• . Breslau is the capital of the Prussian province - of. Silesia,'; in - south-eastern' " Germany. It is 202 miles south-east of Berlin,' and about 140 miles' norfctweßt :; of Cracow, in Galicia. A railway runs from Berlin through Breslau to Vienna.' ■■■ ', \ Cracow is in Galicia, and lies 158 miles south-west of Warsaw, near;"the ' meeting point of the Russian, German and Austrian territory. .'• '-^j'^rk^^iK
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15729, 2 October 1914, Page 5
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