BATTLE OF LEMBERG---AND AFTER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 5

BATTLE OF LEMBERG---AND AFTER

- STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE RUSSIAN VICTORY FIERCE FIGHTING STILL CONTINUES ' ■ (Roc. September 6, 5.5 p.m.) __ . , Petrograd, September 4. Official. —Austrian casualties in Galicia number twenty thousand. All buildings in Lemberg are crowded with Austrian wounded, abandoned in tie enemy's headlong flight. The capture is important strategically, as Lemborg is a great railway junction and the toy to the roar of the Austrian Army, which is now halted on tho Opolo, Zamostre, JBolz line. ' Official.—The Russians have captured Halicz (about 85 miles south-wost of Lemberg). _ ; Tho Ausfcrians are hastily fortifying Grodek- (twenty miles west and a little south of Lemberg), where the swampy country is easily defensible. The above messages, in so far as they relate to the position of the Austrian Army, are confusing. The statement that the Austrians are entrenched at Grodek,~ about twenty miles west of Lemberg, is .difficult to reconcile with the reported capture by the Russians of Halicz, which lies ,85 miles southwest of that fortress. The further statement that the Austrian Army is Halted on the "Opolo, Zaraostre, Belz lino" does not help'to clear matters ."Opole" is probably Skole, a place about 60 miles S.S.NV. oi but is" forty mile 3 north oi Lemberg. The messages aro obviously conflioting, but it is reasonable to assume thai the Aiistrans aro in retreat towards the Carpathians though their line may lie to some extent north and south. TWENTY RUSSIAN AEMY COEPS FREED FOR PRUSSIA. (Rec. September 6, 5.5p.m) < 'A high military official statee that at the outset of the war Austria was Russia's most serious enemy, because, except for four ariny corps sent to Servia, her entire army was directed against the Russians. Now that the former had been annihilated at Shabatz, and Russia had defeated a force of two hundred thousand Austrians between tho Vistula anil Dniester, ten Russian army corps would be sufficisnt to hold til© Austrians in check, leaving twenty corps free to he launched against Germany. • . HUGE NUMBERS OF WOUNDED ABANDONED. (Rec. September 6, midnight.) . > Rome, September 6.' Thirty-five thousand Austrian and Russian wounded were abandoned between Tarnogrod and Tarnopol, besides those abandoned at Lemberg,' owing to the impossibility of finding transport and the lack of Red Cross camps. Both armies refused to ask for, an armistice. AUSTRIANS ATTEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH. ' (Rec. September 6, midnight.') Petrograd, September 6, morning. Sanguinary fighting continues along the front from Lublin to Kholm, where the Tenth Austrian Army Corps attempted to break through the Russian lines, and was heavily repulsed. Five thousand prisoners and numerous oannon. and machine guns were captured. . 'Lublin, capital of the Government of the same name in Russian Poland lies 63 miles S.E. of Warsaw. It is a manufacturing town, containing an old" citadel. The population is about 60,000, ' , Kholm is a district town of Russian Poland, 66 miles E.S.E. of Lublin. It has a population of about 12,000. SUCCESSFUL STROKE BY THE RUSSIAN LEFT WING. (Reo. September 6, midnight.) . Rome, Sept-ember 6. ' A telegram' received here states that the Russian Left assaulted a strongly fortified position on banks of the Dneister near Guila Lipa, a tributary of the Dneister, and' about 60 miles south-east of Lemberg, Five thousand Austrians were left dead on. the battlefield. The Russians captured the Austrian General, thirty-two cannons, and many'prisoners. (Rec. September 7, 0.55 a.m.) Petrograd, September 6, morning. Official.—The Guila Lipa is a tributary of the Dneister.' The fighting took place there on Sunday, the Russians breaking the Austrian line.