Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 5

Russia

AUSTRIANS STATE THAT RUSSIANS EVACUATE LEMBERG. The Hague, October 14. The Austrian Legation states that tho Russians evacuated Lemberg, after a. fierce fight. FOUR GERMAN ARMIES. THE PLANS OF THE OPPOSING FORCES. Petrograd, October 15. Grand Duke Nicholas has announced that the battle front of the main Russian and German forces extends from Przemysl to Warsaw, with the Vistula and the San dividing the two lines. Elsewhere, he stated, the Russian right rests on the fortress of Novoo Georgiewsk. Already aeroplanes are dropping bombs in Warsaw, and cannon can be heard at Chitty. The indications are that Germany has four armies against the Russians. The first operates from Thorn to Gnesen. .The .second, under General Lindenberg, concentrates at Kalier, and now has its front on Mezconow, Skverniewici, and Growec. The third, under the King of Bavaria, is'operating from Kieler. The fourth, an Austro-Ger-man army, based on Cracow, under the German General Dankl, has advanced along the Vistula to Opatoa and Sendo- '} mir. A forward German movement from the 27th September, a strategic deployment, concluded on 3rd October, when the Germans occupied the" front, Kieler, Petrokow, and Lodz, with the Thorn army at Plock coverin gtho left wing. The Thorne army apparently contemplates an enveloping movement on the right bank of the Vistula, dospite the fact that the marshy banks of the Bug and Nerew present serious obstacles to the attempt. The Russians' plan bears a general resemblance to General Joffre's, inasmuch as it compels the Germans to fight some distance from their own highly-developed network of railways," which, with the efficiency of their transport, would increase the enemy's mobility to a degree equivalent to a great multiplication of forces. WITH THE AIRCRAFT. CAPTURE OF A ZEPPELIN. ,', • •■"' Petrograd, October 14. Cossacks brought, down a Zeppelin near Warsaw, and captured it intact.