THE LUMBERING BEAR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4946, 21 September 1914, Page 5

THE LUMBERING BEAR.

SIX MILLIONS MOBILISED. A GENERAL ADVANCE. Rome, Last Night. Russia has completed the mobilisation of six millions. Gnlv half a million are operating in East Prussia and half a million in Galicia. The centre army of 900,000 is advancing on Posen. The other two millions are hurrying westward from Siberia, Turkestan and the Caucasus, and the rest are acting as reserve. Petrograd, This Day. General Rennenliampf is making extensive use of motor lorries to carry re-inforcements. Over a hundred lorries, each containing twenty men, are travelling at forty miles an hour towards the Russian flank. Some German howitzers captured at Lublin are now in use against the enemy. The Germans when occupying Kaiisch district ordered all inhabitants to enrol in the German army. Hie men fled, but some fugitives were caught and twenty were hanged. AUSTRIANS BEATEN AGAIN. Petrograd, This Day. The Russians at Jaworow captured convoys of tho sixth and fourteenth Austrian Corps, thirty guns, enormous quantities of ammunition and 5000 prisoners. They also won an important rearguard action all along the line. THE SHATTERED AUSTRIANS. EXPECT GERMAN HELP. London, Last Night. Petrograd reports attribute the enormous Austrian losses largely to the tact that raw Tjandstmm troops were often placed in the firing line. In the recent fighting a t Josefow, tho Russian cavalry onvelojHxl the Austrian flank before it was able to deploy. while Cossack batteries mowed down entire formations. The leading companies of tho battalions bolted and bid in the woods. Badly-driven and ill-horsed batteries made a feeble attempt to unlimber, and all tho gun. ners perished. There are indications that the shattered Austrians are retreating tovvartis Cracow, hoping to make a, stand there until ro-inforeed bv fresh German troops. Advices from Vienna state that the Austrians hope, in the forthcoming battle at Prezemsyl, to hold up the Russians who are concentrating in the vicinity until large Goraian forces arrive to crash tho Russian troops from Poland. German troops were interspersed among the Austrians to raise the latter’s spirits, hut after a. Russian nthave agreed to exchange prisoners through Washington. LORD JOHN HAMILTON KILLED London. Last Night. Lord John Hamilton was killed while fighting with the Trisli Guards. JAPS WITH BOMBS. ~ . Tokio, Last Night. (l trie ml.— Japanese aeroplanes drop pod bombs on a German ship and the wiroloKN fltfttion fit TOiio-clwUi It, is believed that the ship was blown up.