RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15443, 4 September 1914, Page 8

RUSSIA.

''PF.TROGRAD''—ST. PETERSBURG. change of name. By :m Imperial order St. Petersburg lias boon renamed Petrograd, to get lid of the Gorman word " burp;." The new name still means "Peter's Town/' after Peter the Great. AUSTRIAN'S "WELL BEATEX. (High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON', Sept. 2 (9.10 p.m.) Russia, continues her progress in Galicia, and has inflicted eiiormous losses on the Austrians. The occupation of Lemberg is expected. LONDON", Sept. 2 (11.20 p.m.) j Official.—Tl'.e Russian army completely routed four Austrian corps near Lemberg with enormous losses, and captured one hundred and fifty guns. A GERMAN STRONGHOLD. A Russian army is investing Konigsberg. THE HUNGARIAN CAMPAIGN. AUSTRIANS LOSING HEAVILY. PETROGRAD, Sept, 1. Official.—The enemy desperately attempted to stop the Russian advance at Lemberg by a flank attack in the ing one general. direction of Tvaliez, which was heavily repulsed. The Russians buried 4800 Austrians in one battlefield, captured 32 guns, and many prisoners, includYIENNA, Sept. 1. Official.—The archives have been removed from Lemberg, in expectation of the Russian occupation. REPORTED GERMAN VICTORY. ON IMPORTANT SCALE. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The German Ambassador is daily issuing reports of German victories over the Russians. The latest appears to be the capture of 30,000 Russians near Alienstin, including two generals and all the artillery. LONDON, Sept. 2. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd reports that Russian reinforcements arrived immediately after their reverse (place not stated). AUSTRIAN'S AGGRESSIVE. PETROGRAD, Sept. 1. On the south front, in the Warsaw district, the Russians repelled all attacks. Assuming the offensive on the right iving, they forced the Austrians ( ?) to retreat, and captured three guns, ten mitrailleuses, and one thousand prisoners. "FOR VALOUR," PETROGRAD, Sept, 1. Tho Czar conferred 20 crosses of the military order of St. George upon an infantry company for rescuing a disabled battery in East Prussia under a raking fire.