DESERTED BY THEIR ALLIES
INCIDENT OF THE FIGHTING AT LUBLIN' AUSTRIANS FAIL THE GERMANS (Reo. September 16, 11.10 p.m.) Petrograd, Sept. 16, morning. Details of the llussiaa' victory -at' Krasnik, which followed, tjie failure.of tie Austrian attack on the entrenchments at Dedjvitzs,' eleven miles from Lublin, show that two German divisions participated in the battle. Tlio Austrian, position stretchscl over, seventeen miles, including several lines' of armoured entrenchments on the hillside. The Russians broke the Austrian front at Vysoky, a village to tlio eastward, and the Austrians abandoned the whole position, disregarding v the Germans, 'who retired on Annapol, a few inilea south-west of. Krasnik, fighting bravely, although they lost thirty-two guns. A German officer afterwards remarked: "The Austrians asked us to help them and then deserted us. The German Army will never forgive this act of dishonour." ■The Russians followed the retreating Austrians over the frontier. Some of the Austrians founlit splendidly, but others were glad of the opportunity to surrender.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2257, 17 September 1914, Page 5
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162DESERTED BY THEIR ALLIES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2257, 17 September 1914, Page 5
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