RUSSIAN ARMY STEADILY ADVANCING WEST

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 5

RUSSIAN ARMY STEADILY ADVANCING WEST

GERMANS PRESSED BACK \ — TSAR WILL TAKE THE FIELD WITH THE TROOPS * (Rec August 19, 8.15 p.m.) ' , St- Potßrßburg, August 18,, evening, It is officially stated that tho Russian vanguard has occupied five points in " the enemy's territory, and tho enemy's fortvaid movements havo been stopped. Sinco August 14, all encounters havo bcen-iti favour of the Ilussians, and several hundred' Qcrinaris have, boon taken prisoners. The Tsar has decided to join the army and remain in tho field throughout tlie campaign. ' • . , (Roe. August 19, 5.5 p.m.! i'.. , "■ -.' London, August 18. It Is estimated that Russia is able to raise tivbnty millions of men capable of bearing arms. ~,,„. 'St. Petersburg, August 18. The Grand Duke Nioholas, Commander-m-Chiof of. the Russian Forces,, has appealed to Russian inhabitants of Gnlicin, 'Austria, to let the country throw , off the foreign yoko and raise tho bannor of a united Russia! an indivisible land. ' MONTENEGRINS INVADJB HERZEGOVINA. , - 1 ■ (Rec. August 19, 9.5 p.m.) ' Osttinia, August 10. .The Montenegrins are invading Dalmatia through ■ Herzegovina', and aro within two hours' march of Ragus'a, which lies tbirty-flvo miles from tho Montenegrin frontier. \ (Rec. August 19, 9 p.m.) , - • • ' ■ Paris, Ancust 19. The Frenoh detachment at Scutari, in Albania, has been ordered to Cettiuje to assist Montenegro. , . ■ l Ragusa is an old walled town of about 8000 Oroato-Servian inhabitant*, and the headquarters of tho Austrian Sixteenth Army Corps. Tho town lies on the Adriatic, at tho foot and on tho slopes of Mount Sorgia. It owes its origin to refugees from Epidonr'aim, From tho thirteenth' century onwards it was an independent republic, first undor tho protection of Venice and then of Hungary and-Turkey, but it lost its independence in 1808 through Marshal Marmont (Duke of Ragusa), and was annexed-by Napoleon to the now "Kingdom of Illyria." Sinoe 1814 theitown has.helengcd to Austria. Ragtfsa was soriously damaged by earthquake in 1667. Tho word "argosy" (i.e., vessel of Rugusa) still boars witnesjs to the former commercial importance of the town. , DESULTORY FIGHTING IN THE NORTH SEA BRITISH'"AND GERMAN PATROLS, /' (Rec.. August 19, 9 p.m.) ■ •. London, August 19, morning. Tho British Press Bureau states that desultory fighting took place on Tuesday "between the British patrolling squadron of flotillas and German reconnoitring cruisers. There were no losses. Liveliness is apparent in the southern area of the North Sea. - AMERICAN PACIFIC COASTS NOT YET SAFE. , (Rec, August 20, 0.40 a.m.) ' London, August 19. The Admiralty, in responding to a shipping inquiry, excludes the Pacific coast North and Central America from tho seas where voyages aro 6afe.