VON MACKENSEN FAREWELLS AUSTRIAN COMMANDER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 6 September 1915, Page 5

VON MACKENSEN FAREWELLS AUSTRIAN COMMANDER

AUSTRIANS WITHDRAWING FROM POLAND THEATRE. ' Vienna, September 3. • Tho Archduke Frederick of Austria visited General von Mackenson at Brest Litovsk. and was officially farewelled. Henceforward the German and Austrian armies in Poland will cease to co-operate. It is understood the Archduke Frederick will shortly move the Austrian troops in Poland against Servia. •YON KLUCK'S NEW COMMAND, Amsterdam, 'September 3. General von Kluck lias recovered from his wounds. He now commands the Silesian Landwehr, and £ wi)l not hold a command at the front in, f«|ure< A JAPANESE COUNCIL' OP WAR, 1 (Rec. September 5, 3 p.m.) London, September 4. The Japanese newspapors are discussing means for more effectively combating Germany. .The Japanese Emperor recently gavo an audience to the Premier, and Russian Ambassador, and later the War Council was assembled. The High' Commissioner reports:— London, September i, 4.40 a.m. "Reports which have been -received in London show that the Japanese aro making strong efforts to supply the maximum quantity of munitions to Russia."- , RIVAL' GOVERNORS OP' POLAND. ((Rec. September 5, 3.30 p.m.) - -". '„ • . , .. . ... Copenhagen, September 4. Despite Germany's action m appointing a Governor of Poland after the " fall' of Warsaw—obviously without Austria's consent—Austria has now nominated' General .von Diller Governor of the whole of the Polish territory that she has conquered. The duties of the two Governors will overlap in Bome districts. . THE STORY OF OSSOWIECZ . GARRISON ASPHYXIATED BY POISON' BALLOONS. (Rec. September 6, 0.35 a.m.) - Petrograd, September 5. Major-General Brjosobsky, Commandant of .the Ossoiviecz Fortress, has fe- . ported to the Tsar that after the'repulse of tho four days' assault at-the end of 1914, the garrison in February carried tho fighting into advanced positions with the object of gaining time to prepare for a >more effective defence. Tlie German'l6-inch guns demolished nearly all the works, but tho infantry assaults in February and March, failed and the Germans were forced to entrench and bring up numerous heavy guns. The lull lasted till August 7, when'the Germans 'dropped six hundred balloons, filled with asphyxiating gas into the fortress. The garrison was nearly all poisoned and liad to yield ground, but animated by their officers made superhuman efforts and drove back .the enemy with the bayonet. - Tlie Germans, on August 9, dropped twelve hundred gas balloons, and the garrison exhausted, and almost incapable of effort, was ordered to evacuate, after razing the fortress. , THE TSAR ON THE GREAT TASK SPEECH TO RUSSIAN BUSINESS-MEN. - - ■'.;?■ .(Rec. September 6, 0.6 a.m.),' Petrograd, September 5. • The Tsar, addressing a conference of business men of Russia, calleH to discuss the organisation of the supply and manufacture of munitions, said: "The! more speedy equipment of the army_ with munitions is the only tiling our valiant troops await in order to stop this invasion and bring success again to our arms. .Parliament has pronounced' in favour of war until , our victory is com- '• plete. This-is the voice of the whole, of Russia. • "This resolution implies greater intensity of effort. We have a great task, and shall conccntrate all our country's human effort. Nothing must distract our thoughts and strength from this single goal, .which is to drive the enemy from our borders."- . . . ' ■ '