AUSTRIAN ARMY SURROUNDED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIAN ARMY SURROUNDED

MUST FIGHT OR CAPITULATE RUSSIANS WITHIN SIGHT OF CRACOW (Reo. November 18, 0.20 a.m.) _, _ . ' . , London, November 11. •i. « Embassy announces that the Russian Army has arrived within sight of Cracow, and-the siege of the place is imminent. The Austrian Army has been surrounded, and will be forced to accept a decisive battle or capitulate. Retreat across the Carpathians is impossible. Another Russian Army is marching towards Silesia, and has already arrived at Mekhov (24 miles nortE of Cracow), enveloping the German Right GROWN PRINCE COMMANDS AUSTRO-GERMAN ARMIES. (Reo. November 12, 11.10 p.m.) Parln, November 11. The "Matin's" Petrograd correspondent reports that the Kaiser presided at a Council of War which appointed the Crown Prince Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-German armies operating against the Russians; General von Hindenburg commands the Left Wing, and General Denkyl the Right. REPORTED OFFERS OF PEACE TO RUSSIA GERMANY ALARMED AT MUSCOVITE SUCCESSES. London, November 11. The "Morning Post's" Rome correspondent states that Germany ie alarmed at the Russian successes, and has made preliminary offers of peace to the Russian Government, which; however, rejected them. , Petrograd, November 11. Ths Germans, in the recent fighting in East Prussia, lost 70 per cent, of their officers. The Russians captured four howitzers, sixty-two guns, sixty machine guns, and immense quantities of ammunition; also 323 offioers.