RUSSIA'S CRUSHING STROKE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2254, 14 September 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA'S CRUSHING STROKE

♦ : —> TWO AUSTRIAN ARMIES SURROUNDED : ; SURRENDER EXPECTED ALLIES'.. SUCCESS IN FMNCE ' BRILLIANT COUP GREAT SEIZURE'OF MUNITIONS ,i OF WAR ■ & SEKIAN-. VMDK AUSTRALIAN FLEET AT WORK I••1 . . . : MORE ISLANDS CAPTURED News from all quarters to-day is good. In France the main Ger- .' .)rian. force is in retreat from its position near Paris, and apparently • lias suffered heavy losses. The British troops have again distinguished and so also has General Pau, who captured a huge.quantity of munitions of war. The waggons ■ containing theso covered a distance of about four miles, and the loss to the Germans must seri- ' ously hamper the efforts of their northern wing. Away to the east, , between Verdun and Sedan, the Gernman Crown Prince is trying un- ; successfully so far to fight his way through the French Army stationed ••>' there. The distance between the nearest points of these two battles would bo between thirty and forty miles. In Belgium the Germans '...■ have suffered a further defeat at Tormonde, and are stated to have ' been routed by the Belgians with heavy loss. News of two engagements in which the Russians participated is to hand. The most im- . portant of these apparently is that in which the, Russians were following up the Austrian force in retreat from the disastrous conflict near Lublin. It would seem that the Austriaris are now "cornered," . but are fighting desperately in the hope of assistance from a.large force of Germans, .who are stated to be at Grodek, near j Lember'g." The latest news to hand however indicates that the Rus- / sians ' have the Austrians at their mercy, and that.the early sur- - render of'two armies who are surrounded is expected. Sixty thous-- . and Austrian prisoners have already been taken. .The second Rus- . sian engagement reported to-day was against the Germans at' Chor- . zele, near the border of East Prussia and Russian Poland, and the Germans are stated to have been repulsed with heavy' losses. The •Servians are showing great activity, and are stated to be marching in the direction of Budapest. Nearer home the Australian Fleet has been capturing islands in the Bismarck Archipelago (German New Guinea), and has met with opposition at. Simpsonhaf en, where some! sharp fighting has taken place. There are many minor matters of in- ; terest in to-day's messages. ■