RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7

RUSSIA.

SMASHING THE AUSTRIANS. j (High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON, Sept. 6 (8.50 p.m.). ! Russian successes continue. The Austrian army which is operating in Russian Poland, and which met with success at Lublin, was caught by Rus>sians on Saturday at Tomaszow, between Lublin and Kohlm. The Austrian j Tenth Army Corps were defeated and 5000 prisoners were taken. j A CHECK IN GERMANY. i Two Russian army corps were caught between Soldau and Allenstein, and driven back with loss by an overwhelming force of Germans, who have reoccupied Allenstein. RUSSIA'S PLAN. ■ It is anticipated that central Germany will bo invaded at three points—■ •East Prussia, towards Posen, and in Silisia. There is no sound confirmation of the withdrawal of the enemy's forces from west to east. STILL HITTING AUSTRIA. ENTERING THE CARPATHIANS. Received 5.40 p.m., Sept. 7th. PETROGRAD, Sept. 6. It is officially reported that the Russians on Friday continued an energetic offensivo along the whole of the Austrian line. The enemy's centre suffered most. The forty-fifth regiment of infantry was surrounded westward of Krasnostow and surrendered to a man, with tho commander, fifty-four officers, and a thousand soldiers. Russian cavalry are amongst the Carpathian passes. TROPHIES AND SUPPLIES. AT LEMBURG. Received 9.20 p.m., Sept. 7th. PETROGRAD, Sept. 6. The Russians between the rivers Vistula and Bug have captured since the 28th three flags, twenty guns., eighteen machine guns, 150 officers and twelve thousand soldiers, and made seventy thousand prisoners. In the direction of Lemburg also they captured three hundred guns, thirty locomotives, 150 tsucks and numerous convoys of supplies, besides twelve months)' provisions seized in Lemburg. Vienna admits that ten days' fighting resulted in an Austrian defeat. MUTINOUS AUSTRIANS. Czech soldiers refused to march against Slavs.

The Russians attacked a German division marching to the Austrians' help, on the left bank of the Vistula. The Russians have occupied the Stryi district.

A FORWARD MOVEMENT. WASHINGTON, Sept. G. Tlio British Embassy announces that the Russians are about to enter centrr.l Germany. IMITATING GERMANY. AUSTRIA THINKS BETTER. Received 5.20 p.m., Sept. 7th. PETROGRAD, Sent. 6. A Red Cross doctor states that the Austrian General demanded 200,000 roubles (£2-j,000) from Iv.uiieiitz. in Podolia, otherwise the provisional head of the town would be hanged and the town destroyed. Ho declared that the citizens had fired after hoisting the whito flag. As the bankers and the wealthiest part of tho populace had left, only six thousand roubles were raised by sacrificing the jewel led crucifixes in the churches and plate. Ono colonel, however, returned tlie levy. He said that a military council had over-ruled the general, who was wounded upon entering the town and wanted to imitate the Prussians.

GERMAN INVITATION. REJECTED"BY POLES. LONDON, Sept. 6. German aeroplanes aro showering pamplilots in Poland, inciting tho pooplo to rise against the hated Russians, adding "Away with Oriental barbarism." Tho Poles, having experienced German culture, repudiate community with the savagery of the Army Staff. GERMANS IN POLAND. COPY ALLIES IN FRANCE. Received 11.30 p.m., Sept. 7th. PETROGRAD, Sept. 7 (a.m.). Germans are gradually evacuating the frontier districts of Russian Poland. CAVALRY SKIRMISH. RUSSIAN BEATS PRUSSIAN. A squadron of tho Crown Prince's (late "Deaths Head") Hussars, from Danzig, under Major Count Stolberg, hurriedly left Petrican. They were met by Russian Hussars, who in a fierce skirmish cut them in pieces, only a few escaping. .All the officers were killed. GERMAN ZEPPELINS EMPLOYED. A Zeppelin airship was shot down near Jerads. It contained two staff, two artillery officers, and twenty-six men. AH were made prisoners, and their bombs and other explosives were captured.

A RUSSIAN VICTORY

Received 12.30 a.m., Sept. Sth. PETP.OGRAD, Sept, 7. The defences of Holiez consisted of ten infantry redoubts and six battery emplacements on ono side of Guistalip' river, six redoubts and six emplacements on tlie other side. The works were held by ten thousand men, but the Russians quickly carried them. THE HOSTAGES SYSTEM. Received 12.45 a.m., Sept. SthPETROGRAD, Sept. h Germans seized the President and a number of citizens of one town as hostages for the good behaviour of the inhabitants. Later a German general on a pretext that a shot had been fired on the ordered the hostages to prepare for execution, but the order was countermanded. A GERMAN OFFER. ■ ■ ■— - A Polish Archbishop visited the hostages and said the Kaiser had personally charged him to say that the Poles could expect from the Kaiser regeneration of the Polish race through western culture. t CAPTURE OF LEMBERG. A TRIUMPH OF STRATEGY. Received 1.20 a.m., Sept-. Sth. PETROGRAD, Sept. 7 (a.m.) The Russian victory at Lembnj'g was the culmination of daring and secret strategy. Russia allowed the Austrians to advance in the direction of Lublin and Ivhoim. Meanwhile two Russian armies, starting from 'the frontier at points four hundred miles apart, were converging on Lemberg, the northern from Poland, the eastern from Podo'iia and Bessarabia, In latter region the Austrians entrusted their defence to strong bodies of troops in fortified camps. Austria continued to concentrate on the Russian, right flunk, believing that she had discovered an opening, and only saw the trap when the combined Russian armies reached the Guilalipa. It was then, tr.o late. AUSTRIA'S INVADING FORCE. NO"W IN DIFFICULTIES. The Austrian defeat between Lublin and Kholm placed the main army in a critical position and it is now forced to retire southwards, and is in grave danger cf be:ng cut off by the victorious: army from Lemburg. The Russians threaten it on three sides, and extensive marshes impede retreat by the fourth side between San and the Vistula,