Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-10-09
RUSSIANS ROU7E0
CLAIM AUSTR|ANs
REPORT ENEMY RETREATS IN
DISORDER FROM cARPA.
THAN PASSES.
STORM BELGIUM DEFENSE
Night Fighting Takes Place und.,
Glare of searchIights-Austrians i
Close Schools Because Of
Cholera.

Manchester, N. H., Oct. 7.-Dr o.,
stantin Dumbe, Austro-Hungarian ON
bassador to the United States soid
Tuesday night he had received tbo
following official messages by wirelo..
from Vienna:
"Our troops progress victoriousv IN
all defenses in Carpathians against
Russians, who are fleeing in disorder
1.-TWO Montenegro brigades which
penetrated in eastern Bosnia wera
crushed after two days sanguinaw
fight and are at present fleeing over
frontier in panic.
Several Austrians were found ino
horribly mutilated state.
"The whole Servian battalion was
captured by us in northern Bosnia"
DR.. Dumbe said the message was
signed by Count Berchtold, secretary
of foreign affairs.
Germans Victory Complete.
Berlin (via Sayville, L. L. Oct. y
1t is officially stated that the Russians
were completely defeated near Su.
walki and Augustowo, on the east
Prussian frontier. The Germans made
several thousand prisoners and can.
tured eighteen cannon and many ma
chine guns.
The situation, it is announced, is
most hopeful everywhere, for the Ger,
mans and Austrians.
Claim Germans Lost.
Paris, Oct. T. Telegraphing from
Petrograd, a correspondent of the
Temps, says that in the retreat across
the Niemen the Germans lost 1870 guns
and all siege artillery. Their heavy
howitzers were abandoned before Os.
sovietz.
Try to Cut Off Left Wing.
Paris, Oct. 1.-THE Germans, in a
surprising show of offensive strength,
are attempting to cut off the left wing
army of Gen. D'Amade and surround
it.
Aviators returning from an aerial
reconnaissance early in the day re-
ported large masses of German caval.
ry in the vicinity of Lille, which the
observers declared was screening a
large force of infantry and artillery
moving through the region north Of
the line from Turcoing, ten miles
northeast of Lille, to Amentieres.
German Attack is Furious.
Antwerp, Oct. German troops
are now storming the defenses of Ant
werp. The attack began late yester-
day after the great siege guns of the
Germans had battered away at the
forts for four days and fighting was
continuous throughout the night A
statement issued at the war offices
early yesterday said that the attack
of the Germans had been repulsed at
all points
The night fighting took place under
the glare of searchlights operated by
both the conflicting armies. Those Of
the Belgians were mounted on the for
tifications, while those of the Germans
played from a number of balloons be-
hind their attacking lines. Several
times German aeroplanes attempted to
fly over the city, but each attempt
was met with a volley of bullets that
drove the aviators to flight.
Close Austrian Schools.
Venice, Oct. THE late messages
from Hungary report an alarm
ing spread of cholera in various parts
of the kingdom Although it is stated
that the sickness was brought from
the Russian front by the troops ana
that no civilians have been affected
an edict has been issued closing the
schools of Budapest because OF the
danger of infection.
Find Missing Submarine.
Rome, Oct. 7.-(via London)-The
Italian built submarine which disap-
peared while undergoing trial trip IN
the gulf of Spezia, arrived today a.
Bastia, a fortified seaport town Oh
France in Corsica. The submarine,
which had just been completed IN
private yard near Spezia for the Rus
sian government was under the com
mand of Lieut. Angelo Bollini, retired,
who was reported to have expressed
dissatisfaction over the neutral att'
tude of Italy in the war
War Costly Business.
Paris, Oct. Yves Guyot, the poF
tical economist, declared at a meetlhs
of the Political Economy society TO-DAY
that a six months war would involve
a total loss to the world of $4,000, OOO'
900 francs (S17. SOC. OOO. OOO).