Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20
Dumba Protests Against Re-
ports About Russian Cam
paign in GaIicia and Poland.
POINTS TO INCONSISTENCY
OF LOSSES AND RALLIES
Gives Statement Of What He Says
Really Happened in Recent Bat
ties With Cars Men.

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| lowing statement:
J II am compelled to protest most en-
phatically against the false reports sent
| via London from Rome, Milan, Geneva,
Copenhagen and St. Petersburg about the
] Austrian campaign in Russian Poland
and Galicia. To quote some Of these
reports purporting to come from official
| sources:
/ 1.-The Austrians lost since the battle
of Lemberg $4,000 dead and wounded
and 100000 prisoners l read this in
credible lie at least twenty times, in big
headlines. repeated even in the SAINT
paper several times. But we hear that
Immediately afterward the Austrian
generals Dankl and Auffenberg, who
had to retreat from Russian Poland
succeeded in uniting and rallying fol
a new fight I do not think that any
| body endowed with little common
sense can for one moment believe that
an army of 100000 having lost $50,
| 900 men should be able Immediately t.
| rally for new fight. y
According to onicial(?) St. Peters,
berg news. the Austrians, while reced-
ing and holly pursued to Lemberg.
(There was hardly anybody left to tell
| the tale.) The steel forts of the first
class fortress of Nichailowsk had been
| si1enced and stormed with incredible
Nichaliowsk is a small village with 81.
inhabitants, where the Austrian troops
had erected provisional field trenches.)
1000 Heavy Guns Mythical.
1.-THE reports spoke of 500 Austrian
field guns and 1000 heavy guns cap
tured. Nobody knows the where
abouts of these mythical 1000 heavy
guns, as no Austrian fortress had been
taken.) Then. again, the backbone OF
the Austrian army in Galicia was ut
| terly broken after the fall Of Lem
berg, it practically no longer existed,
| choice between a rush to Budapest to
| join hands with the Serbs and the an
nounced onslaught to Berlin via Bres-
| lau.
Some days later we hear from
Vienna that the Austrian troops made
a firm stand in Grodek, southwest OF
Lemberg, and after a fve-day battle
took 10000 Russian prisoners and cap
! "St. Petersburg cables that the two
Austrian generals. Dankl and Auffen-
berg, are entrapped between the for
tress of Przemysl and craeow and that
| their surrender is shortly expected
(evidentaly by the reporter alone).
Ih1S happened, he says.
| What in reality happened is this:
The Austro-Hungarian troops had from
the beginning to wage in eastern Cali
| cha a defensive war against great odds.
| After repeated engagements they fell
| back on their strong line of defense
under the protection of the f1rst-class
| fortress of Przemysl. The advance of
| our northern and central army to Lub-
lin and to the River Bug, although A.
nally checked and repulsed, achieved its
end to arrest the progress of a huge
Russian army in the direction of Thorn
and Bresiau and to relieve the enor-
nous pressure brought to bear by Rem
| nenkamp's army on two or three Ger
man army corps left to defend Eastern
Prussia. Here the Russian invasion
recently resulted in defeat and disaster.
AS to the central Russian army with
the fortress of Brest-Litowsk to lean
upon, its onslaught on the Prussian
| provinces of Silesia and Posen is tar
from imminent, as the Polish territory
| on the eflt bank of the Vistula, occupied
by German troops, must be first con-
Quered. The only tangible result of
the Russian victories announced to the
world with the eloquence of Mounte-
banks is the occupation Of eastern Cali
| cha, a fiat, open country without any
strategical positions, which had to be
given up to the enemy, as everybody
knew In Austria.
Bears Color of Truth, He Declares.
THE general staff of the dual mon
archy on the other hand announced, Is
a result of four weeks fighting. the
| capture Of 41,O00 Russian prisoners
and of 300 guns. figures which prima
facie bear the color Of truth.
1.-THE news coming especially from
Rome Gotten in the shape of fictitious
tn {rt.
the outbreak Of panic and preva-
lence of famine in Vienna. Both tales
are absolutely false and of pure fiction.
AS to the panic. there is not the slight
est reason for it, and nobody Is 1righe-
ened by the Cossacks, notwithstand-
| ing the picturesque and melodramatlc
element in the reports OF newspaper-
men not allowed to the front. Condi-
tons are normal in the Austrian CAPT.
| tai. where the Imperial opera opened
on the list Of September.
| GAS far as famine is concerned, re-
| ceiyed private letters that most prices
| Of the necessaries OF life after q snort
rise. dropped to normal level; but
| some Of the foodstuffs like eggs and
| sugar became cheaper on account OF
the impossibility of their expectation.
Generally speaking. the most patri-
otto spirit inspires the whole nation;
the antagonism Of classes and parties.
the ouarrels and jealousies of different
nationalities disappeared as by en-
chantment. The mobilization In Aus
tria Hungary, with the sole exception
Of some Servian districts. took place
among unbounded enthusiasm Of the
population.
| 1.-THE reserve men. even OF classes not
called in, mustered so much strength
| that in one case an infantry regiment
could have taken the field with 10000
men. All rumors or news of mutiny or
the surrender of Slav regiments, of
the shooting Of Slav leaders, or the
disaffection of the socialists are SIAN
| derous inventions.
| 1.-The 100000 Austrians and Hun
garians will fight to the last for the
| existence Of their country and for
their beloved emperor and king"
MRS. FRANK LESLIE. DIES.