Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1915, Page 5

Russia

THE INFLUENCE OF RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. • Timbi and Sydney Sun Bbbvicm. Petrograd, January 5. The Bourse Gazette says: "Our victorious advance in Bukovina will compel the Austrians to surrender or cross the Roumanian boundary. Meanwhile, our successes are influencing Roumanian sentiment.

THE BATTLE OF SARYKAMISH. RUSSIAN CAPTURE OF NINTH TURKISH ARMY CORPS. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, January 5. Router's Petrograd correspondent states that the Russians at Sarykamish captured the whole of the ninth Turkish army corps. THE TWO RUSSIAN ARMIES. London, January 5. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports that one Russian army is pursuing the Austrians on the Hungarian side of' the Carpathians, and another is approaching the frontier of Transylvania, having almost subdued [resistance in Bukovina.

THE CRACOW CATHEDRAL. TOMBS OF THE POLISH KINGS. (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, January 5. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent says the Poles sent a delegation to implore the Pope's help in saving the cathedral at Cracow in ca -e the Austrians would carry out their threat to blow up the city. (In the Cathedral are the tombs of the most distinguished Polish Kings and great men of the country, and here the Crown jewels were formerly deposited. Besides the cathedral, there are nearly' forty churches, twenty-five monasteries,and nunneries, and several synagogues, an ancient castle, university (founded in 1564, and re-organised in 1817), a botanical garden and observatory and a library. Cracow is connected with Vienna, Berlin, Lemberg and Warsaw. A tomb to the memory of Kosciusko, with a height of 120 feet and formed of earth taken from the famous battle fields of Poland, stands at about three miles from the city. About one third of the population is composed of Jews. The city was founded by Krak, Prince of Poland, in the early part of the Bth century, and was the capital of Poland from 1320 to 1609. It was. annexed by the Austrian dominions in 1846).