RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA.

LEMBERG., IMPORTANT POST. EVACUATED BY AUSTRIANS. PETROGRAD, Sept. 4. Official.—Austrian casualties in Galicia numbered twenty thousand. All buildings in Lemberg are packed with Austrian wounded. The latter were abandoned in the enemy's headlong flight. Tho capture is important strategically, as Leiiiberg is a great railway junction, and tho key to the rear of the Austrian army, which is now halted on the Opole-Lamostie-Belz line. The Austrians are hastily fortifying Grcdekj south of Lemberg, where swampy country is easily defensible. The Russians have captured Haliez. DEATH OF GENERAL SAMSONOFF. PETROGRAD, Sept. 5. General Samsonoff paid no heed to warnings of danger, declaring "My place is with my men." Presently a shell killed the general and most of his staff. GERMAN FORCE INCREASED. PARIS, Sept. 5. The "Matin's" Rome correspondent states that five German army corps, withdrawn from Belgium and the north of France, have arrived in West Prussia. THE PRESENT POSITION. THREATENING TO GERMANY. Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 6th. PETROGRAD, Sept. 5 (p.m.). A high military official states that at tho outset of the war Austria was Russia's most serious enemy, because, except for four army corps sent to Servia, her entire army was directed against the Russians. Now that the former has been annihilated at Shabatz, and Russia has defeated two hundred thousand between the Vistula and the Dniester, ten Russian Army Corps will be sufficient to hold the Austrians in check, leaving twenty corps free to launch against Germany. HORRORS OF WAR, AYOUNDED ABANDONED. Received 12 a.m., Sept. 7th. ROME, Sept. o. Thirty-firo thousand Austrian and Russian wounded were abandoned between Tarnagrod and Tarnopol, besides thoso at Lemberg, owing to the impossibility of finding transport, and th-j. lack of Red Cross camps. Both armies refused an armistice. SEVERE FIGHTING. AUSTRIANS LOSING. PETROGRAD, Sept 6 (a.m.) Sanguinary fighting continues atang the front Lublin to Kholm, where the tenth Austrian army corps attempted to break tho Russian lines, and were heavily repulsed. Five thousand prisoners, numerous cannon and machine guns were captured. ROME, Sept. 6 (a.m.) A telegram received states that the Russian left assaulted a strongly fortified posit ; on on tho banks of the Vistula near Gnilalipa, a tributary of the Dniester. Five thousand Austrians were left dead on tlic battlefield. The Russians captured an Austrian general, thirty-two cannon and many prisoners. , Official. —Fighting took place r,t Snila.lipa on Sunday, tho Russians breaking the Austrian line.