AUSTRIAN ARMY ROUTED AT LEMBERG

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIAN ARMY ROUTED AT LEMBERG

, BRILLIANT RUSSIAN VICTORY

MANY THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS CAPTURED

Petrograd, September 2. An official announcement states: "The enemy _ desperately attempted to 6top the advance on Lemberg by a flank attack in the direction of Kalisz, which was heavily repulsed."Wo buried 4800 Austrians on the battlefield, and captured thirty-two guns &nd many prisoners, including a general. "On tie south front in the Warsaw district we repelled all attacks. "Assuming the offensive the right wing forced tlie Austrians to retreat, and captured three guns, ten mitrailleuses, and a thousand prisoners." (Rec. September 3, 9.40 p.m) * Petrograd, September 2, evening. . It is officially stated that the battle,at Lemberg lasted for 6even days. : and three Austrian army corps were engaged in it. Tho Russians made a final assault on Tuesday, and carried the heavily-fortified position ten miles east of tho town. They then advanced on the principal forts. • The Austrians fled in disorder, abandoning entire batteries of artillery, much camp equipment, provisions, and convoys: • , Tho Russian advance guard and cavalry pursued the enemy, inflicting enormous losses in dead, wounded, and prisoners. Tho Russians finally routed the Austrians on Tuesday, inflicting enormous losses. The' Russians captured 150 guns. HUGE CAPTURE OF PRISONERS. (Rec. September 3, 8.35 p.m.) Paris, September 2. The Russian viotory in Galicia was brilliant. The Russians turned the Austrians' right wing, which was cut to pieces, leaving thirty thousand prisoners in the Russians' hands. • ■ ■ , . ' Tho Russians on the Vistula were heavily reinforced when the issue of the battle was doubtful, and they were thus able to take up a vigorous offensive, consisting chiefly of bayonet charges. They captured many guns. (Rec. September 3j ITXS p.m.) • London, September 2, evening. The Russians claim- to have captured 17,000 prisoners between August 26 and 30. . , ' . . • .... It is stated that Austria's force, consisting of a million men, is opposing the Second and Third Russiau Armies. „ Vienna, September 2. The official archives have been removed from Lemberg in expectation of Russian occupation. ' 1 A REVERSE IN EAST PRUSSIA. London, September 2. Reuter's correspondent at Petrograd (St. Petersburg) reports: "Russian reinforcements arrived immediately after their reverse. Place not stated." (Rec. September 3, 8.35 p.m.) . London, September 2, morning. A delayed message from Petrograd says the comments of the Russian newspapers suggest a reverse in East Prussia. There are no details. (Ree. September 3, 8.35 p.m.) - New York, September 2. Messages reoeived from German wireless sources assert that a force of Russians was captured during an attack aoross tho swamps and lakes of Ortelsburg, in East Prussia. • (Rec. September 3, 9.40 p.m.)' ' '' Petrograd, September 2, evening. The Chief of the Stnff states that the reverse in East Prussia was purely local, and was duo to the sudden arrival of German reinforcements with siege suns. . . The offensive in tho southern area of East Prussia continues. / _ AUSTRIANS DEFEATED NEAR POLISH FRONTIER (Rec. September 4, 1.5 a.m.) Petrograd, September 3. It is officially announced that General Rouzsky's army fiiad a great victory at Lemberg. It was preceded by 1 the capture of 44 guns and Maxims. The Fifteenth Austrian Division was annihilated. At Laschocherva, eastward of Tomaszow, i.n Russian Poland, fifty miles north-west of Lemberg, a hundred officers. 4000 men, and 6000 wounded wore made prisoners. The colours of the Sisty-fourtk Regiment and twenty guns wero also captured. GERMANS IN FLIGHT TO BERLIN. ' London, September 2. A telegram from Copenhagen reports that the roads are blocked with carts laden with refugees from East Prussia. Two thousand five hundred arrived iu Berlin in two days. Refugees' from the frontier town of Ortelsburg, 75 miles south of Konigsbcrg, state that the whole neighbourhood is in flames. The residents were ordered to leave on Friday, because (he Cossacks .were only two days' maroh away.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)