RUSSIANS ANNIHILATE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2229, 15 August 1914, Page 7

RUSSIANS ANNIHILATE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY

LOST B¥ AN AMBUSH CAUGHT BETWEEN A FOREST AND A SWAMP (Rec. August 14, 11.10 p.m.) London..August H,'nioming. The "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent states that five thousand Cossacks annihilated two Austrian cavalry regiments from Lemberg, in Galicia, which had advanced into Poland emboldened by tho Russian 'withdrawal. The Governor of Lubin got word of the sally, rapidly collected the Cossuclcs and sviporting them by a field'battxiry prepared nn ambiifhin a dense forest skirting Uie main road.' Owing to rains the overflow of the Vistula; and Wiepez convertril tho countryside opposite the forest into a. vast swamp. The Austrians l arrivid in the evening, and the Governor allowed the advance guard to pass, but when the main body appeared sbtuiaa of: Cossacks charged from front and reari and the quickfirers, hidden in the forest, mowed down the cavalry. Hundreds of terrified horses leapt into the marshes, and sank to their haunches, and the• Austrians were'wiped out. i • ' Rome, August 12. The Press stateß that an Austrian caValry brigade on the frontier was attacked, by Cossacks and artillery: The cavalry, unable to hold tho posi'iion, tried to retire during heavy rain, but were caught in marshy land and exterminated.—"Tames" and-Sydney "Sun" services. Lublin is a city of fifty thousand inhabitants in Russian Poland, and is the capitalof tho province of that name adjoining the Austrian frontier. The town of Lublin-lies about forty-five miles north of Austria,' and is about 120 miles north-west of the fortress 'of Lemberg, whore the Austrian Eleventh Army Corps has its .headquarters. The 'Vistula and Wieprz flow nortkwards through the piovince and are separated by a marshy lowland, The surface of the province generally is" an undulating plain. It is largely, covered with forests of oak* beeches, and lime; intersected by ravines, and thinly inhabited. RUSSIAN CONCENTRATION COMPLETE. I _ (Rec. August 14, 8.25 p.m.) , I " . ' .','": Athens, August 13. The Russian Legation here states that the concentration of Russian troops on the Galician frontier has been completed, and an offensive movement against Austria is imminent, and will coinoide with a. Servian advance: , • St.'Petersburg, August 13. Jt is semi-officially stated that tho Russians drove the Austrians out of Sokal, an Austrian frontier town about fifty miles north of Leinborg, and pursued them along the Bug River; blowing up bridges and a viaduct, , A Gorman general commands tho Austrian troops on the Russian frontier. < The Germans .ore fortifying themselves near Kalisz and Sieradz, in Russian Poland, and are destroying the fords of the Warta River. Kalisz is in Russian Poland, north-east'of Breslaii',.and about three miles from tho Gorman frontior. It has a population of 22,000. and is one of tho oldest and finest cities in Russian Poland. Sieradz- is a smaller town of about 8000 inhabitants, and is about twenty-five miles further into Poland than Kalifcz. It is 110 miles south-west of Warsaw. BOMBARDMENT OP BELGRADE .INEFFECTIVE. The.rosult of the bombardment' of Belgrade and Somendria for a few days was insignificant. ALLEGED RUTHLESS REPRESSION OF THE SLAVS. r , . ... London, August 13. It is reported that the Austrians are ruthlessly repressing Slav' disaffection in various provinces. A number of Czeoh soldiers were publicly shot in the Square at Prague. It is also stated that all the leading' Slav representatives for Dalmatia in the Austrian Parliament were summarily snot. \y Dalmatia has eleven representatives in the Austrian RoicLerath; ■—-' ]■ , FORECASTS qF THE DURATION OR THE WAR s WIDE DIFFERENCES "OF OPINION. (Reo. August 15, O.M a..ni.) ' ■'. '. . , , _ • ■',■■■ ■ London, August 14. 1 A prominent European commander considers the Continental war may last three years. 'Economic and financial experts, however, maintain that famine and financial stringency .will crush Germany within six months, unless she accoro> pushes some strikingly decisive military victories! . THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ' ' ■ STATEMENT TO THE AMBASSADOR. ' * ' , . ... , ~,.,.: .'■ London, August 13.' Tho Government informed the Austrian Ambassador (Count' Albert Mens-dorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein), that in consequence of Austrian troops. menacing France, England had been obliged to. announce a state of war with Austria; \ i. i i •i_ 11. i j.> . , .-,,' Paris, August 12, A state of war exists with Austria since midnight.