The Irresistible Russians.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 82, 1 September 1914, Page 5

The Irresistible Russians.

AUSTRIA BEATEN,,

RESISTANCE CANNOT ; ,BE

CONTINUED,

RUSSIAN ARMIES DEVASTATING , THE COUNTRY. '

AUSTRIAN ATTACKING FORCE

RECALLED,

RUSSIANS MENACE CRACOW

Received 31, IUO p.m.

~. Eom e. August 31. Viennese official reports . state that the Russians in immense force are devastatlng the whole region from the Vistula to tile Dniester, over a front of 200 miles.

The Austrians have only! ten army «orps so their cannot he continned.

I Elsewhere it is stated that one Austrian army corps sent to Poland has been .recalled to defend Cracow, which the Russians are seriously menacing. (Cracow i g a city of nearly irtWfcn people, in Austria/Galicia nules north-east of Vienna .. ]*ta2 court of a line of detached city has important manufactures.)

THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER.

FRESH PRUSSIAN TROOPS ARRIVE.

FURIOUS COMBAT CONTINUES.

RUSSIANS STILL VICTORIOUS.

Received 31, 11.50 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 31. It is officially reported tihat fresh troops have appeared on the Prussian frontier, taking the offensive in some places.

The combat southwards of Lublin is being carried on with unabated fury. The fighting near Tornaeheff is particularly stubborn. The Russians captured many prisoners, gurus,'quickfirers, and a flag.

GREAT RATTLE IN PROGRESS.

GERMAN REGIMENT SLAUGHTERED

AUSTRMNS ROUTED.

London, August 30.

Thousands of East Prussian refugees | are flocking to Berlin and' causing disI may. [ St. Petersburg, August 30. Six officers arid 60 sailors of the cruiser Magdeburg have arrived. ■ j A great battle is in progress in the southern districts of Lublin and Khalm (Poland). A magnificent' Russian bayonet charge practically annihilated the 11th Honvoe Regiment. Reports from the White Sea state that all the German vessels found there at the outbreak of the war were set on fire and sunk and the crews imprisoned.

The Russian advance in Prussia continues. Fighting has occurred between the Russians and the garrisons at Thorn and Graudeny. The Russians took prisoners 3000 Austrians east of Lemberg, also 1000 north of Tomas'hew. The 15th Hungarian division was surrounded east of Tonuwhew, the entire regiments surrendering.