Fearful Carnage

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 73, 15 August 1914, Page 5

Fearful Carnage

REPORTED 1,088,01? A BIUGADE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ■ Rome, August 13. The press states that an Austrian eavarly brigade on the frontier was attacked by. Cossacks, and' the artillery, being unable to hold the position, tried to retire. Heavy rain caught them in marshy land, and they were extennin'ated. | TWO AUSTRIAN R-EGIMENTS WIPED OUT. j AMBUSHED AXD ENFILADED. ' COSSACKS DRIVE ENEMY INTO THE j , MARSHES. Received 14, 11.10 pm.. London. August 14 (morning). The Daily Chronicle's Milan correspondent states that five thousand Cos ; sacks annihilated two Austrian cavalry regiments from Lemberg (Galicia), which had advanced, emboldened by the Russian withdrawal. The Governor of Ludlin got wind of the sally and rapidly collected the Cossacks, who, supported by a Held batitcry, prepared an ambush in the [dense forest skirting the main'road. The overflow from the Vistula and the Wieperz had converted 'Uhe countrywide opposite the forest into a vast swamp. The Austrians arrived in the evening. The Governor allowed the advance 1 guard to pass, and when the main body appeared the Sotnias and Cossacks charged front and rear. The terrific, discharge of the quickflrers hidden in the forest mowed down the cavalry in hundreds. The horses leapt into the marshes and sank to their haundhes. The Austrians were wined" out. '