Arizona republican., 1914-09-06
Three Million Men in Mang- ling Maelstrom Six Hun dred Miles Long on Aus tro-Russian Frontier - Have Fought Seven Days
HUNGARIANS ARE
 AIDING AUSTRIA
Berlin Announces More Ger man Successes Belgians Again Victors -Kaiser's Artillery Very Effective,
 Say British Infantrymen
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPArcH1

LONDON, Sept. 5.-"This is the seventh day of the colossal battle in which three million Russians and Austrians are engaged" reads a Vienna dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company, dated Septem- Der 2nd
 The battle front extends along about 1000 kilometers (62O miles) from Prussia in the north to the Dneister river in the south. The Rus sians are burning for a fight in the south, and their supreme efforts are directed toward annihilating the en- tire Austrian army in that region and thus remove it from their flank be- fore beginning the real attack on Germany The battle began by a turning movement in Russia's favor. Early today, (September 9 the Aus trians abandoned Lemberg, which the Russians occupied.
 In a dispatch from the Amsterdam correspondent, Reuters gives an ac- count of the situation in Galicia as related by an Austrian officer who was wounded in a battle with the Russians at Dombrowe and has now reached Rotterdam.
 According to the Austrian officer who gave his story to the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche, the advantage gained by the Russians at Lemberg was not conclusive. From the beginning of the campaign, he declared, the Aus trians reckoned upon the possibility of the Russian occupation of Lem berg
 A force of Hungarians is now ad- Vsncing from the south, according to .he officer. and he believes they are possibly preparing for an attack upon the Russians He added if the Aus trians succeeded in breaking through the Russian lines north of Lemberg, the Russians would be lost.
 A dispatch to the Evening News from Athens says:
 German officers and men who ar rived from Constantinople were taken immediately aboard the ships off San Stephano. Their destination remained secret The former German cruis- CTS Goeben and Breslau are still at Touzlt in the Gulf of Esmid, where they are undergoing repairs. It is reported the Turkish naval officers in the council decided that active participation in the war is inexpedi- ent as far as the fleet is concerned V
 An official statement issued from Berlin. received here by Marconi wireless says:
 Reports from the war cores pondents of the Viennese newspapers stated that the situation in the north ern theater of war has been changed for the better by the victory of the armies commanded by Generals Auf- fenberg and Dankel. After an ex ample of brilliant work of armies in the field, the correspondents relate Russian infantry who tried to beat a nasty retreat under cover were stop ped by renewed direct fire the mo- ment they attempted to make any movement.
 Rheims was taken without fight ing and owing to the rapid advance of our army little attention can be paid to booty, guns or wagons that have been left standing in the open fields and quite abandoned. These will be collected by the troops in due course of time'
 The Boulogne correspondent of the Star records the conversation of members of a small party of Dublin fusilliers. who cut off from their re- giment at Courtrai, managed to make their way to Boulogne. Unlike some men he has seen. adds the cores pondent, the fusilliers had nothing but respect for the German artillery.
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