Battle of Lemberg

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 86, 7 September 1914, Page 5

Battle of Lemberg

WORST KXEMY WEAKEXED.

TWEXTY ARMY CORPS AGAIXST

UERMAXY.

deceived C, 5.5 p.m. 'l'etrograd, Sept. 5 (morning)

A high military official stated that at the outset of the war Austria was Russia's most serious enemy, becain-, except for four army corps sent to Servia, her entire army was directed agaiast the Russians. Of these, four had boon annihilated at Shabatz, and Russia had defeated 200,000 between th.t Vistula and Dniester. Ten Russian army corps were sufficient to hold the Anstrians in check, leaving 20 corps free to launch against Germany.

AX IMPORTANT STRATEGIC

rosmox.

KEY TO THE AI\ST HAX REAR,

Petrograd, .Septemhpr 5.

Ollicial news stales that Austrian casualties in Calicia were, 200,000. All the buildings at Lemberg are packed with Austrian wouncle.l. The latter were abandoned in the enemy's headlong (light. The capture is important strategically, a s Lemberg is a great railway junction, and Hi'." key to the rear of the Austrian army, which has now halted on the Opo'c-Zamostie-Rilz line. J'ctrograd, Sept 4 (evening*. Il is officially announced that Russians have captured llalicz. (Ifnlit-z is a town in the Crown land of Oalieia, Austria, on the right bank of the Dniester, 00 miles smtli-south-east of Lemberg. Ropulati a\, about mo.) GREATEST DEFEAT IN AXXAL.S OF AUSTRIA. London, September 4. The Times, in a leader, refers to tlic Russians' defeat of the Austrian* on Sedan day as a fresh Sedan. It was ■ the greatest defeat the Austrians ever met on a battlefield. The wonderful victory at Lemberg makes the Rattle of AYagram and Mack's surrender of Ulm small by comnarison.

PROCESSIONS IN lIF.UUX

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Merlin, September 4

Berlin celebrated the anniversary of Sedan with a military, procession, captured French, Itc.lgiun and Russian guns forming u promim-nt feature. (The Battle of Wajjram was fou»ht on July li, I.W. when the and French both lost about "25.000 men. It has been described as the most glorious in the annals of Austria. Oineral Mack, with ott.OtJO men, surrendered at l.lin to Napobjon on October 20, 1IK15).

RESENTMENT AGAINST GERMANY

Received f. 5At ]i.m,

London, September 4,

iA diplomatist at Vienna states that the Emperor takes short walki. Ilia condition is pathetic. It was not thought in Vienna that Germany wmiiil rashly jump the chance of the Austro-Si-rvian trouble io force Austria into a sweater war 111 an ihey wished, pml to enter into the long-wished for tusk of smashing Europe.