The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-21
WATCHING RUSSIA
RUSSIAN and GERMANS ARE
ABOUT TO CLASH AGAIN
WARSAW ABOUT TO FALL
United States Consul Writes That
Russian City is Likely to Fall and
Asks for Observation-Disclosures
ed Austrian Claims Recapture Of
Iembero.

ed Austrian Claims Recapture of
Lemberg.
All eyes in London, says dispatch,
are turned to the eastward where,
under conditions of the utmost sec
recy, the Teutonic allies and the Rus
slams are preparing to engage IN what
may prove one of the most decisive
combats of the war. Evidence is ac-
cumulating to show that this gigantic
conflict Will be determined in Russian
Poland and the only question disturb
ing British experts is as to which side
has chosen the battle ground.
Berlin admits having withdrawn
from the Niemen river and at the
same time discounts the whole move
ment in that region as being Of nc
strategical importance.
It is now clear that Russia has
abandoned the narrow point in Cali
cia between Przemysl and Cracow
Russian forces having virtually occu-
pied all Of Gahcia with the exception
Of these two places. Petrograd
claims this operation is due to strate-
gic reasons, while Vienna maintains
tha. rejuvenated Austrian armies
have relieved the Przemysl forces
and driven the invaders out.
It is unquestioned that the more OF
less demoralized Austrian forces, stiff
fened by German reinforcements
have resumed the offensive, but there
is no information to indicate that
the Russian retirement is anything in
the nature Of a rout resulting from
Vigorous fighting.
Whatever may be the intention OF
the armies operating on the ends OF
the great Russian battlefront it is
clear that these movements are Of
significance besides he tremendous
advance in the center.
From tn Feast on Monday came It'd
ings Of a decided reversal in form
the dispatches both from Vienna and
Petrograd indicating that the Aus
trian army at Przenysl, so often re-
ported surrounded, hopelessly out.
classed and on the verge Of sarren-
der, has turned on the Russians. with
the aid of reinforcement, and forced
them to retreat.
The first news of this claim ema-
mated during the morning from the
Austrian Capital. It was followed
later in the day by a Petrograd ad-
mission that the Russians had aban-
:. doned the siege OF Przemysl for stat.
egical reasons, with the object OF
drawing up new line against the
Austro- German army in other points
OF Gaicia.
Whatever may be the truth Of the
situation the Russians have been
claiming an unbroken series Of vic
tories in their sweep through Galieia
and the coincidence Of Mondays dis.
patches, supplemented as they were
by more circumstantial accounts from
Vienna OF a vigorous Austro-Hunga-
rian offensive, seemed to presage i'm
portant news.
That the Russians ere losing
ground is indicated in an official dis.
patch to the United States govern.
ment from its consuls at Warsen, cap,
ital of Poland. The city, according
to the American consuls, is threaten
ed by German forces and may fall al
any moment. They ask for instfuc-
tions as to the care Of foreign inter.
ests during the expected period o1
Z occupancy.
According to Berlin dispatch, SIT
is officially reported from Vienna that
forty thousand Russians were killed
or wounded near Przemysl."
However, the steady advance Of
the Russians through the crownland
Of Bukowina is striking dismay into
the Austrians, according to aGTices
received in Venice and forwarded tc
London by the correspondent of The
London Daily Mail. Roumania also
feels that the Russian advance may
imperil her chance of getting Trans
ylvania, which she wishes to occupy
as the price Of her neutrality.
Cn the East Prussian frontier the
Russians are still engaged with the
German rear guard west Of Suwalki
and to the southeast of. Wirballen.
Adispatch to the Reuter- Telegram
company from Cetinje says that on
October the Montenegrins engaged
in the greatest battle with the Aus
trians since the beginning Of the wal
near Kalenovitch, in Bosnia. The
Austrians, 10000 strong, tried to cut
of the Montenegrin army operating
toward Serajeyo. The Montenegrins
succeeded in, surprising their foe as
they were marching in column focma-
ton, and in the first day of fighting
inyicted loss of 1900 men.
The Austrians, says the correspond
ent, seeing the impossibility Of ad-
vancing in the direction Of Serajevo,
fell back on Kalenov;tch, leaving be-
hind 500 more men killed and wound
ed. The Montenegrins made large
number Of prisoners and captured a
large quantity Of stores.