Sanguinary Battle

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

Sanguinary Battle

AUSTRIAN'S AGAIN REPULSED.

Received t, midnight. Petrogvad, Sept. 0 (morning)

Sunpuiuary fighting continues alorg the front from Lubli.i to Kholm, where the tenth Austrian army corps attempted to break the Russian lines, but wen heavily repulsed. Five thousand prisoners, numerous cannon, and inaeliine-guns were captured.

LKFT TO DIE

WOUNDED SOLDIERS ARAXDONKD

IN THOUSANDS.

Received <>, midnight. Rome, September 0.

Thirty-live thousand Austrian and Knsi-ian wounded were abandoned between Tarnogrod and Tarnopol, besides those at Lemuel;:', owing to the impossibility of finding transport and latk of the Red Cross camps. Roth armicj refused to ask for an armistice.

HVK THOUSAND KfLI.LD.

SUCCESSFUL 'RUSSIAN' ASSAULT IX

AUSTItIA.

Received fi, nvjnijjht. liomc, Septcmbor 6. A telegram received states that tV Russian left ussauked a strongly-forti-fied position on the banks of the Vistula near the Cnilalipu.

Five thousand Au-trians were left dead on the battlefield. The Russians captured an Austrian general, 33 cannon, and many prisoner*. Receive* 7, T2.53 a.m.

r.-trojfi-ad, Sept. 6 (morning)

Official.-The Gnilaftpa is a tributary of the Dnei.tcr. The fighting took place there ou Sunday, the Russians breaking the Austrian line.

FKF.SII KtiUTIFU'A'nOXS,

Reerived fl, 6..'i p.m. Petrol-lid, September 5. The Austrian* an. hastily fortifyiii;; Orodck, where the swampy country :a easily defensible. ' (Grodek is a town of about 14,000 people, 25 mite* by rail west-joutk-wst of lemlierg. Its chief industry as the Afoita'd to in the .wpy