Evening star., 1914-09-26
INHABITANTS OF CRACOW
ARE REPORTED IN FLIGHT
Germans Declared to Have Taken
Over Rule of City, Displacing
Austrian Civil Authorities.
INVASION BY WAY OF BALTIC
Experts Figure on the Chance That
Kaiser Will Attempt to Throw
an Army Into Domain
of the Czar.

LONDON, Sertember 26, 1918
, a.m.-The fall of the town cf
Khyrow, telegraphs the Petrograd
correspondent of the Evening
News, completely isolates the
Austrian fortified position of
Przsnlysl as regards railroad
communication.
, Khyrow is twenty miles south
OF Przemysl and close to the
junction of several railroad lines.
Germans Rule Cracow.
Dispatches from Petrograd declare
that the Austrian civil government of
Cracow has been taken over by Ger
many. The inhabitants of Cracow are
said to be in flight. The city soon will
cease its normal functions and be
transformed into great fortified base.
According to these same sources of
Information the Germans have thrown
three army corps into the Cracow dis
= attack which, it is expected, will not
be delayed much longer. The Russian
capital has been advised also that all
trafnc has been stopped between Ber-
lin and the Baltic ports Of Danzig. El-
bing and stettin. ..s...,,
Figure on German Attack.
ssrh. yaod.rs NJ tho polish zecret
committee which has been in charge of
all the Polish volunteer detachments
fighting on the Austrian side also have
left Cracow," says one Petrograd dis
patch. THE Germans have thrown
three army corps into the Cracow dis
trict, according to this information,
and are bringing more troops in prepa-
ration for the expected Russian at
tack"
an trafic on the railways between Ber-
lin and the German Baltic ports Of Dan
zig. Elbing and Stettin has set ex-erts
to figuring on the possibility of a Ger
man descent on Russian territory by
way of the Baltic Any such move is
REGARDED at Petrograd as impossible
from the STANDPOINT of an effective act
of war. although It might be theatrical
ly. effective in supporting the morale
of the Berlin populace-
According to advices reaching Venice
from Trieste several thousand wounded
have been brought into that Austrian
city in the past three days. Many public
buildings. including theaters are being
converted into hospitals for them.
A majority of the wounded come from
Galicia, and they relate tales of fear
full hardships. For days at a time they
were in wet clothing. and with the eX-
ception of plums they had nothing to
eat The Russians have captured m
mense quantities of the winter clothing
from the Austrian troops
The snow already has begun to fall,
and the troops in the field are suffering
from cold.
Asiatic Cholera in Vienna.
The first case of Asiatic cholera has
been off1cially announced in Vienna. 1t
was the case of a wounded officer
brought from Galicia. The patient has
been isolated, and it is reported that he
Is recovering. There are large num-
Der of cases of dysentery in the capital
The military commander at Sarajevo,
capital of Bosnia, has forbidden all in
gress and egress to and from the town
without special passports.
A Rome dispatch says that all the
houses around Trieste and Fasana have
been ra4ed or transformed into hospitals
Dispatches from Pola say that food
there is scare, bad and expensive
Russian Staff Statement.
The general staff at Petrograd has is
sued the following statement:
September % the Russians checked
the tentative move of the German van
guard to advance on the government of
suwalki "a government of Russian Po-
land bordering on Prussia). Within the
circle between Scheschubchin and Vim
cent several enga gements with the
front of the enemy have resulted IA
vorably for the Russians
In West Galicia there is no fighting.
THE Austrian army. driven from
Khyrow. continues a general retreat"
FRENCH B0MBARD LISA