RUSSIANS" BEFORE CRACOW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 5

RUSSIANS" BEFORE CRACOW

PART OF THE CITY ABLAZE

REFUGEES STREAMING INTO BERLIN

" : ' • Rome, November 17. .-.. 'Advices from Vienna state that part of Cracow is invested and ablaze, end that the inhabitants are fleeing. . . • London, November' 17. :. The Socialist paper Vorwaerts states that 18,000 East Prussian.refugeee have arrived at Berlin.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ■ ' . ■ i ■ ' ■ ■ . Paris, November 17. Swiss newspapers state that nearly. 100,000 refugees from.East Prussia and Silesia have arrived in Berlin. ■ ' -/'•/ " ■ ■■. GERMANS SAVED BY RAPID RAILWAY TRANSPORT, ...Petrograri, November 17. S ■■.. Official.—!' The retreating Germans destroyed railways and bridges wholesale, greatly delaying pursuit, as they iioared their own territory; and afterwards their extensive network of railways .facilitated the rapid transfer. of their troops against the Russian loft. The movement was covered,by strong detachments of cavalry from the western front, and partly reinforced hy Austrian cavalrj , The German- offensive has led to the battles now in progress on the Plock-Lenezyca-Uniejew front. . "The Russians captured ten officers and a thousand- men southward of Lysko, Galicia." ...[Plock is on the Vistula, sixty miles west-north-west of Warsaw'; Lonczyca is forty miles eouth-west of/Plock, and "Uhiejew ten -miles further to the south-west.] •'' .: \ ■ ' ■ , '■', ' ~~ "~~~~~" f • ■ * ■ DESPERATE SORTIE FROM PRZEMYSL REPULSED. , ' . '' , Rome, November 17. The Giornalo d'ltalia's Petrograd .correspondent states that the' Russian artillery and cavalry repulsed a desperate sortie.from Przeniysl'. The Austrian losses were heavy. . ' ■ •'• /■• , .■ BATTLE RAGING IN POLAND. - (Ree. November.lß, 7.30 p.m.) ; "'■.-■■■■■.•'■. ' '■" ■ Petrograd, November 17. Official.—'.lh© Germans are retreating on the Gumbinnen and Augerberg front, but still hold the passages to the Masurian Lakes. .' >'" .■ .. "A battlo on a large.scale is proceeding between the Vistula'and Warta Rivers (in Poland), where the Germans are- in great force."' RUSSIANS CAPTURE A PRUSSIAN TILLAGE. * (Reo. November 19, 1.40 a.m.) ■ ■-■■•■■• ' ■■ t ■. Petrograd, November 18, 'After a twelve-hours' battle the Russians occupied the Prussian village of Langszaren, in East Prussia, near Tam'oggen. ■ The Russians have crossed the River Schrenjawa, ,_and are encamped within range of the searchlight from Kbpio, Koscansko Hill, in Cracow. .' ' AUSTRIANS PENETRATE INTO SERVIA ; "WARM" RECEPTION AT VALJEVO. ; ' . (Rec. November 18, 10.35 p.m.) ■•-.-• • _ ~-■'■■■._ ' Vienna,' November 18.. Official.—The Austrians have entered Valjevo (in Servian territory, 50 milee south-west by south of Belgrade). They were welcomed by a shower of flowers, for tbo purpose of deceiving them as to the temper of the city. Subsequently people 'dropped bombs and opened riflb fire from the houses. This reception, is described as characteristic of the Servians. '.'. . ..-.•.' (Rec. November 19, 1.20 a.m.) ■ ■ ..,"•■; .; ••■'.■' . , ■ .-. Rome, November 18. : ■ According to an official statement from Vienna the Austrians have occupied Valjevo. The Servians have retired sis miles in the direction of Kragu-" jevaks. The'fighting continues in new positions..