RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 102, 23 September 1914, Page 5

RUSSIA.

_ ' AUSTRIAN TREACHERY. ABUSE OF THE WHITE FLAG. TO SECURE FREEDOM FOR THE SLAVS.

Petrograd, September -1. Three German army corps (120.001 men) have been concentrated in a for'.ified position in the vicinity of Przemysl, with orders to defend it to the utternost, to enable the Gorman forces, wlj/ h «re gathering at Posen, to arrange a general forward movement. It is officially stated that the All--trians endeavored to arrest the advance on the Baranofl-Kani.-hotl front ml were repulsed with great !o--. Our siege guns bombarded Grostav. An artillery Sght has commenced at l*m-:nj-sl. During tlie battle of Leiaberg the ' Austrian.<, after liui.-tlr.;: IV wliit.; flag, treachcrou-ly phot dov.ii I'rolve, the liero of Port Arthur"; 'fh - infuriated lluaians sabred tio-m unsparingly. The Gazetto say.-,: "J: •:*. r.' peace is proclaimed Ru-sia mu-t secure the freedom of the Slavs from the foreign yoke and end tho nightmare of <>-rmaii militarism. This *id involve the dissolution of the Hapsburg monarchy and tlie abolition of tha Prussian hegemony. Austria must be deprived of Galicia and iier Slav territory and also cede Trieste and Trent to-Italy, and Transylvania tod part of Bukovina to Ronmania.