HOW LEMBERG FELL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 221, 22 October 1914, Page 8

HOW LEMBERG FELL.

NARRATIVE OF AN ENGLISHMAN. PETROGRAD, September 16. ' A graphic story of the fall of Lemberg. has been given to me by an Englishman who has just arrived here. He says:— "I am an engineer, and "with a friend had a business in Lemberg. About a week before the arrival of the Russians we were suddenly sent for by the Austrian police and conveyed to prison. All our money was confiscated. We were kept for fhre days without food. Only water was supplied to us. We were released, in an exhausted state, during the panic which broke out on the approach of the Russian army. "No defence of the tow*n was attempted. The Russians gave the demoralised Austrian, military authorities three days in which to evacuate the place in order that the inhabitants might be spared the horrors of a bombardment. The Russians made some show of opening a bombardment. I should say it was only a feint; no shells seemed to fall in the/town. The noise terrified the citizens, 35,000 of whom bolted helter-skelter. The Jewish community was particularly alarmed, owing to the lying stories concerning the Russians in the Austrian papers. Bankers escaped with money belonging to other people, and sayings bank boxes of poor people were broken open. Nobody was allowed to leave by train for Vienna unless he. or she could deposit at the railway station £2OO 'to be returned on reaching the capital.' Passengers for Budapest had to deposit £4O. "There were'pitiful sights in the streets. Wounded Austrian soldiers, disabled in the arm? or legs, shoeless, and almost i'Ja rags, begged for bread. The utter disorganisation of the Austrian military administration and the state of chaos into which the Austrian war commissariat degenerated are beneath ail criticism. The Austrian Army proved to be a disunited and unwilling mass of men, of whom large numbers were only too delighted to throw down their arms "and surrender to the Russians. . • " The Russian Army entered Lemberg in splendid condition. It was attended by an enormous provision... train, with every requisite in abundance. The inhabitants, especially the Ruthenian Slavs, met the Tsar's soldiers with demonstrations ofj delight, showering (lowers on them, and kissing the hands of the officers."—"Central News." GERMAN CADETS FOR THE FRONT KAISEH: "NOW MARCH WITH

GOD." BEKLIN, September 22. The Kaiser's address to the cadets ordered to the field, which is now published in the "Kreuz Zeitung," was as follows: — ,-''"Cadets: Already in your early youth, I send .you out to my regiments to fight against the enemy as guides at the head of my brave troops. You shall take with you to the army all the , moral qualities which have been im- : planted in your young hearts in the corps of cadets. "Be regardless in your bravery, keep your blood cold, your head clear in hard times, and your heart high, and have faith in God. Then you will lead , my troops to victory. "I need not recall the historic in- ■ stances of the valour of your corps. You have learned them all. At any t rate, should the Lord grant us victory, f . I ask you not to forget the song of Leuthen. Now march with God. Adieu, ;, cadets. "-—American Exchange,