Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 17, 7 September 1914, Page 6

Russia

V " ' J . REPORTS FROM RETURNED i " RUSSIANS.

MORE GERMAN OUTRAGES.

(Received 8.50 ajm.) 1 " Petrograd, September 6

Wounded from Prussia describe that they stood for hours with shrapnel raining down upon them, and that they were unable to see a single German: for dust. Aeroplanes enabled the artillery to direct their fire on the Russian lines. Zeppelins were useless and three were brought doVn. The Germans killed a number of Russian wounded. They fired at them under the White Flag and frequently used dum-dums.

Colonel Tomilof sky’s two daughters and Major Gerard’s daughter at Vilna, disguised as soldiers, stole off to the theatre of war, but eventually their parents allowed them to go to the front as volunteers.

The Germans are using various infernal machines, destroying the highways and bridges.

THE FALL OF LEMBERG.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Petrograd, September 6. The capture of .Lemberg was so sudden that-the station was crowded with trains loaded with munitions of war, dynamite, benzine, and medical stores, which the. Russians seized. THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS AT TOMASCHOFF. Petrograd, September 6. At Tomaschoff Russian infantry put a. majority of the Austrian officers hors do combat, causing a panic. Then they began a general attack, and tho Austrians speedily hoisted tho White Flag. This was of frequent occurence.

Petrograd, September 5

A high military official stated that at the outset of the war Austria was Russia’s most serious enemy, because, except for four arms corps sent to gorvia, her entire army was directed against the Russians. Of those, four had been annihilated at Sbabatz, and Russia had defeated 200,000 between the Vistula and Dniester. Ton Russian army corps were sufficient to hold tho Austrians in check, leaving 20 corps free to launch against Germany. London, September 4.

A diplomatist at Vienna states that tho Emepror takes short walks. His condition is pathetic. It was not thought in Vienna that Germany would rashly jump tho chance of the Austro-Sorvian trouble to force Austria into a greater war than they wished, and to enter into tho long-wisbed-for task of smashing Europe.