The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-03
Germans Lose Fifty Thousand
Men In Disastrous Invasion
of Poland
Austrian Empire
at Gar S Mercy
Entire Wheat District of Hun
gary In the Grip of the Mus
covite lnvaders-Ready to
Move Into Silesia

London. Oct. Alt is officially an
nounced I'm Petrograd that Russian ar
niles have won decisive victories over
large German forces near the frontiers
of Prussia and Silesia. The Germans
have been no more successful than the
Austrians Ia hating the Russian ad-
vance.
The general staff specifies Russian
successes near Simne, in the province
Of Suwaiki. ard at Andreitev, forty
miles north Of Cracow.
The Germans have abandoned the
hombardment of the fortress of osso-
wiec and are suffering considerably
In a hurried retreat
The Russian embassy In Rome fur
nishes details OF the disaster which
has overtaken the German offensive
In Suwaiki and Lodx provinces. In
the battles which brought about the
collapse OF their invasion OF Russia
the Germans lost $4,000 killed and ao.-
90" taken prisoners. They were 80
thoroughly defeated near Suwaiki. Os-
trovitz and other towns that they fed
peil nell. leaving their wagon trains
behind them. batteries and baggage.
The soldiers threw away rifles.
While the success of the Russian
armies has been SO marked in the
north the advance through Hungary is
amazingly rapid. Your correspondent
at Rome learns that the Russian army
now sweeping across the plains of
Iffs erxr L 4.sty -ttr- q
having to strike a blow.
The Stockholm Journal declares that
the Russians are already virtually
masters of the city of Budapest as
well as the fertile province and that
they now command the district which
supplies the whole Austrian empire
with wheat. This newspaper accounts
for the steady procession of Russians
over Germans and Austrians by say
ing that The Russian artillery has
proved more effective than the Ger
man or Austrian guns. Credible ac-
counts of the operations of the past
few days along the whole German
frontier from Koenigsburg to Cracow
Indicate German setback comparable
10 the failure of the invasion OF France.
Colonel Shuaski. military expert OF
the Bourse Gazette of Petrograd. takes
the view that all operations point to
Cracow and southeastern Silesia as
the coming theater of conflict,
Germans and Austrians at Cracow.
The German armies and the routed
Austrian forces are now Fastening to-
ward Cracow. Colonel Shuaski writes.
Ii being their evident intention to con-
centrate n mass of troops between Cra-
cow and Rreslau. In order to advance
on the right bank of the Nistula and
compel the Russians either to evacuate
Galicfa or to accept a decisive battle.
The Germans are displaying an in
ordinate appetite. Not content with
undertaking a decisive engagement in
Sllesia, they are trying a siege at Os-
sowiec. at the other end of the stra-
tegic front. Evidently they are con-
fident of success at the battle of ST.
lesia, as they are preparing a route
across the river Niemen. In any case
their attempt to carry out this gran
dose scheme will lead to swife de-
movement.
General Won Hinnehurg. the kaiser $
commander-in-ch ief. in the east has
arrived at Cracow and has taken COM
mand OF the Austrians and Germans
concentrated in that region.
All the news today indicates that
Russia is successfully following the
plans of her general STAFF to paralyze
German initiative along the Prussian-
Poland frontier. while Fastening an ad
vance In force against southeast ST.
lesia, the key to- Breslau and Berlin
The Russian general star expects TO
have troops In Silesia by October 5.