Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 18 August 1914, Page 5

Russia.

AUSTRIANS DRIVEN BACK BY RUSSIANS IN POLAND.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] St. Petersburg, August 16. Russian cavalry on Thursday dispersed the Austrians, forcing them to

evacuate Kielce (in Russian Poland)

THE CZAR IN MOSCOW

St. Petersburg, August 17

j The Czar lias gone to Moscow

RUSSIANS IN GERMANY REPULSE THE HOME FORCE.

THE DOWAGER-EMPRESS SAFE.

St. Petersburg, August 18,

The first German infantry division on Thursday and Friday attacked thp Russian front .at Eydtknhnen, and were repulsed after an artillery engagement.

Many women, principally Cossacks, are applying for service in the ranks. The Dowager-Empress reached St. Petersburg, having travelled hy a circuitous route. She was accorded a great reception. The previous report-, from .Switzerland were circulated as a blind to her real movements. THE CZAR’S PROCLAMATION. London, August 1,6. The Daily Chronicle’s St. Petersburg correspondent says the Czar’s proclamation thrilled Russians and Poles alike. This is the first official indication of the vast historical changes that the war is likely to produce. Intense enthusiasm was aroused at Warsaw. The proclamation Jiad an excellent result on the mobilisation, and the efforts to counteract the GerraauAnstrian incitements to revolution.

The Poles admit that owing to their hatred of Germans and the growing anti-Slav policy of Austria, Poland’s only hope is a re-union under the Russian Crown.