AUSTRO GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN HOSPITALS CROWDED. 80,000 WOUNDED AT VIENNA. Bene, Sept. 3. Thirty' thousand Austrian wounded hart arrived in Vienna. The hospitals there and in other pities arejovercrowded and emergency institutions have been opened. The authorities at Budapest declined to receive 2COO wounded, as the hospitals were already overcrowded with .wounded from Galicia and Bukotina. AN OFFICIAL REPORT. THE RUSSIANS BUIfiXISG TRAIL. London, Sept. 3 A German official message says: We eroded the Dvina on both sides of UxIculL and oar troops are making progress. Dense oclnmns arc hastily proceeding north-east from Riga. Burning villages and farms mark the routes of the retreating Russians. We Kpnlsed the Russians and Roumanian* between the Susita and Putn.i Valley, and repulsed the French northjreat of Monaatir. CBUELTY TO SLAVS. * Zurich, Sept. 3. T l * number of political prisoners released in Austria under tho Imperial decree of 'amnesty is eatinutei at between «a«» and 800.000. Their release has re veiled that a Urge number of Slav? were incarcerated without a trial and imprisoned in prisons where i ; :»y suffered from lack of food and terrible privation*. Thousands emerged mere skeletons, and many irere carried from prison to the hospital, on« having ;.<> have both legs amputated owing to frozen feet neglectfedby the prison doctor. IfiIXFOBCEMEXTS FOR ITALLOf FRONT. lioine, Sept. 3. Tto Camus have enabled the Austrian* to transfer five additional diriejons from the eastern to the Italian front. Austria is depleting her home ganuont to provide further rcinforccBMntß. General Koeress is succeeding General Boroerie, owing to the tatter's failure en August 11 in the laonzo battle.