CAPTURE OF TOMASCHOFF.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13573, 14 September 1914, Page 5

CAPTURE OF TOMASCHOFF.

A SANGUINARY CONFLICT

AUSTRIAN LEFT CUT OFF

GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS

(Received Sept. 13, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, Sept. 12

The Russians captured Tomaschoff after a sanguinary conflict. They also captured fortified .positions at Opole and Turobin, west of Lublin, and repulsed the Germans with hei.vy losses at Choroele.

A semi-official statement says the Russians cut off the Austrian left from the troops operating between Tomaschoff and Ravarusska.

News from South Poland indicates | that the chief Austrian army is fighting a desperate rearguard action, fieeiii£ amid increasing disorder. It is believed that 300,000 Germans have been withdrawn from the western front and are intended to assist the Austrians instead of East Prussia. Russian pairols are in contact with the Germans at Blaski near Kalisz. It is officially stated that on Wednesday Germans arrived at Grodek to assist the Austrians. • _ The Rus.-uan operations against the Austrian' two wings and the rr-;ir of the western anvy have b-:>en iavourar. 10, uud the tn;-nii?r>; movement at KavariUl«n i> proceeding succor fully.