THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16239, 24 November 1914, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE

PREPARATIONS AT CRACOW.

CIVIL POPULATION EXPELLED,

ROME, November 22.

The Military Governor of Cracow haa expelled the civilian population. Fifty thousand Poles fled in all directions.

A MODERN CATAPULT.

BOMBS AS MISSILES,

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

LONDON, November 22.

Copenhagen reports that the Austrians outside Belgrade used contrivances re sembling a Roman catapult, throwing beer barrels filled with stones and explosives with terrible effect, the stones splitting up into thousands of pieces.

AUSTRIANS' RETREAT CUT OFF.

(Times and Sydney Sun Servioes.)

LONDON, November 22

I« # Matin (Paris) is informed that the Russians are cutting off the retreat of tfie Austrians in Hungary. Eighty thousand at Runrisk have been taken prisoners.

Budapest is alarmed because it will be unable thereafter to resist invasion.

Watson's No. 10 is a little dearer than most whiskies, but is worth the money.— Advt.

THE RUSSIAN PRESSURE TELLING

BUDAPEST ALARMED.

THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN

ITS ABANDONMENT PROBABLE

COPENHAGEN, November 23

(Received Nov. 24, at 0.5 a.m.)

Panic and excitement are general in East Prussia. Forty thousand are fleeing daily. The situation is so serious that Germany has been obliged to abandon her intention of evacuating East Prussia and Silesia in order to win a decisive victory in the west.