AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MAY SUE FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2252, 11 September 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MAY SUE FOR PEACE

HER EMPIRE IN PERIL RUSSIANS ENGAGED iN ANOTHER BATTLE j (Reo. September 10, 8.85 p.mj Bordeaux,. September 9. 'A' telegram from Petrograd states that it isjjelieved at the Russian Foreign Office and ra diplomatic quarters that Austria-Hungary will shortly sue for peace as tie only means of averting the complete breaking up of the Empire. DESPERATE FIGHTING NORTH OF LEMBERG. . ' Petrograd, September 9. 1 It is officially stated that fighting was in progress throughout Sunday along the whole of the Austrian battle-front. In the centre, the Austrian Army is In the Rawaxuska district, north-westward of Lemberg, there has been desperate fighting with large Austrian forces. " The Russians are attacking an Austrian stronghold neaT Gobodok, on the left bank of the Vistula. The Russian offensive has had favourable results.The capture of Nikolaieff is strategically as it ie the junction of the railways to Lemberg and Jimacheff, and via Stryi (forty-five miles south of Lemberg) to the Carpathians. AUSTRIAN SLAVS EXPOSED TO RUSSIAN FIRE., (Rec. September 10, 8.85 p.m.)' Bordeaux, September 9. Petro ff rad correspondents in describing the final episode at the capture of Leroberg state that the Austrians hoped to check the Russian advance till the town had been evacuated. To this threw out a rearguard ecreen of Slav troops, with a- backing of Magyars, who were ordered to shoot the Slavs the moment they hesitated. This became known to the Russian Commander, and at the critical moment a terrific artillery fire was opened over the Slavs' heads upon the retreating Austrian columns, dropping a hail of projectiles Which caused a wild panic. ATTEMPT TO OUT OFF 500,000 AUSTRIANS.. (Rec. September 10, 10.15 p.m.) Petrograd, September 9. 'A Russian attempt to cut off half a million Austrians who were advancing on Lublin, in Russian Poland, is on the point of succeeding. A very extensive battle is raging. , HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES. .(Reo. September 11, 1.25 a.m.) Petrograd, September 10. Heavy fighting continues, extending from Rawaniska. north-west of Lemberg, to the Dniester, forty miles south, where the Austrians, • who were beaten at Lemberg, have been reinforced. The Russians captured five hundred prisoners on Monday night. , . . Seeing an Austrian aeroplane watching the Russian forces at the front, a Russian aviator, Captain Nesteroff, gave chase, and charged straight at the enemy's aeroplane,' which was, destroyed by the impact. Both aviators were killed. ■ _ . VIENNA MENACED- BY FAMINE. '' London, September 8. The "Daily Mail" Milan correspondent states that Vienna is menaced with famine. Serbs have been torn to pieces in the streets and all Serb shops bard been packod. . ' ,

Two Russian newspaper correspondents were shot in their rooms by. the police, and five foreign journalists were imprisoned. TJio Government has begun to fortify Vienna, and arrangements have been made to inundate 'the low-lying lands round the city. _ '. j. Refugees from Galicia are flocking into Vienna, aud are helping to make the situation in the.city desperate. • It is reported that Russia is liberating Galician prisoners on parole, in the hope of creating a good impression in Galicia. 'While ,the Austrian-Slovaks and Croatian are treated ae leniently.as possible, the Germane and Hungarians are punished witb full severity. • RISING FEARED IN BUKOVINA, Petrograd, September 9. Austro-Hniigarku fugitives report that the Austriaua fear a rising in Bukovina. Hungarian sympathies with Ruseia aro represented ae increasing^ Bukovina is a Orown land and Duchy of Austria-Hungary, lying to the fiouth-east of Galicia. It has a population of over 800,000, of wbom 40 per cent, aro Ruthenians, 35 per cent. Rumanians, and 13 per cent. Jews. The official language is German. Bukovina was occupied by the Russians in 1769, and by the Auetrians in 1774. In 1777 the Porte under whose suzerainty it was, ceded the province to Austria. ■ ■-■• . EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH SAID TO BE DEAD. T , . , . «. London, September 9. It is rumoured in Holland that the Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph, died twelve days ago. ■