HEAVY FIGHTING EXPECTED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13491, 21 September 1914, Page 3

HEAVY FIGHTING EXPECTED.

THE GERMAN PLANS. PETROGRAD, Sept. 18. German troops were interspersed with the Austrians to raise' the latter's spirits. After a Russian attack m one locality the Austrians fled, while tho Germans perished to the last man. The Russians at Jaivo'row captured the convoys of th© Sixth- and Fourteenth Austrian Corps with thirty guns and enormous quantities of ammunition and five thousand prisoners. The Russians won an important' rearguard action all along the line. General Rennenkampf is : making extensive use of motor lorries to carry reinforcements. 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 m use . against the

enemy. ' " ' •' The Germans occupying the < Kalisch district ordered . all the inhabitants' to enrol m the German Army. The men fled, but some of the fugitives were caught and 20 were hanged. LONDON, Sept. 18. Advices from Vienna state that the Austrians hope m the forthcoming battle of Przemysl to hold up the Russians concentrating m the vicinity until large German forces arrive to rush the Russian troops from Poland. Russia has completed , the mobilisation of six million men. She has only' half a million men operating m East Prussia and half a million m Galicia, Her centre army of .900,000: men is advancing on Posen,' and. another two million men are hurrying westward from Siberia, Turkestan, ahd_ the Caucasus, the rest acting as reserve. , PETROGRAD, September 19. The Russians have captured siege artillery and a train of 36 howitzers, sent from Breslau to attack Hangaroo.