RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 8

RUSSIA.

AUSTRIANS CRUSHED. iALF THE ARMY HAS BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR, (High Commissioner's Cable). LONDON. Sept. 4. Official.—Seven days of most stubborn fig.iting in Eastern Galicia resulted in a complete victory for tlio Russians. F.ve Austrian army corps were completely routed and retreated in disorder westward, abandoning their arms and baggage. Resides an enormovs number killed the Austrians have lost -10.000 prisoners, including many Generals. Panic is spreading among the Austrian troops. During seven days the Russians have taken two hundred guns and seventy thousand prisoners, their operations extending over a front of two 'hundred m:lcs. Tho Austrians' extreme right sustained the greatest losses. Tho crushing victory means that Russia and Servia have accounted for practically half the Austro-Hungarian army, and that Germany cannot expect help from her ally. AUSTRIA'S SEDAN. LONDON, Sept. 4. "'J ho Times'' in a leading article rc:ers to the Ru>s r.ns' defeat of ihir Austrians on Sedan Day as a fresh Sedan, the greatest defeat tlio Austr'ans have ever met on a battlefield. This wonderful victory of tho Russians at tho Battle of Lcmberg makes tlio Battle of V. ngran in ISfit), and General Macks' surrender at Ulm in ISO 3 small by comparison. GERMANY'S EXAMPLE BETTERED. PARIS. Sept. 4. The newspaper 1 states t'iat Russ'a lias nr.tilled Germany of her intention to levy upon every Gernien town occupied a contribution double that which Germany has exacted from the Belgian towns.