COLOSSAL AUSTRIAN DEFEAT REPORTED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2245, 3 September 1914, Page 5

COLOSSAL AUSTRIAN DEFEAT REPORTED

BATTLE SAID TO BE DECISIVE ENEMY'S LOSS ESTIMATED AT 20,000 MEN (Rec. September 2, 2:50 p m.) Rome, September 1. Messages from Bukarest (Rumania) state that the Austrian defeat in Galioia was colossal, and trains are transporting tens of thousands of wounded. A number of regiments were destroyed, and the Landwehr and Landsturn are. replacing them The Rumanian General Staff declares that the battle will bo found to have been decisive. Other advices received show that the Russians are maintaining air positions and are continuing in the aggressive. London, September 1. The Rome correspondent of the "Daily News" reports that the have lost twenty thousand men in Galicia. Tho'Hague, September 1. It is reported that the Kaiser has gone to the Russian frontier. The' Austrian Landwehr is the second line of the army, and has a peace strength of about 50,000 men. After 12 years of service the soldier passes to the Landsturn, in which he remains until his 42nd birthday. THE POLES AND RUSSIA. \ St. Petersburg, September 1. Russia's overtures to the Poles have had aii extraordinary eifect on the German Poles. . . .. • It is stated that Poles belonging to the Sixth German Army Corps from Breslau, when approaching Namur, mutinied and killed their officers. Slav regiments in the Austrian ser vice arc disaffected. A whole AustrianSlav regiment, with its band and colours, went over to the Russians. CANADA TO RAISE ARMY OF 300,000 MEN A MILLION MEN TO BE TRAINED TO SHOOT. _ (R«c. September 2, 9.35 p.m.) Ottawa, September 1. Colonel Hughes, Minister of Defence, announces that the Militia Department proposedfto train one million Canadians to shoot straight at a thousand yards range. A force of at least three hundred thousand men Trill be placed on a war basis throughout the Dominion. Tho population of Canada is about 7$ millions. Tho number of males is about four millions, about hall of whom would bo adults.