The Calumet news., 1914-09-26
Two Great Armies, Covering Ex-
tensiVe Front, Approaching
kaiser's Frontier
MOVE ON STRONGHOLDS
Gear Reported Assembling An
other2, 100000 MenioSup.
port Vast Offensive

LoHuoi, sept. Zb.-Ine news OF the
war in the east indicates, after all
reasonable allowances for exaggera-
ton are made, that the immense
forces Of Russia are rapidly nearing
the German frontier on a line Of adj
vance 150 miles wide
London expects within a week to
hear Of pitched battle, as vast as
that Of the Aisne, between 1000, 900
Germans and Austrians who are con-
centrating on this line To save the kai-
ser's territory from 100000 Russians.
Dispatches from Rome Petrograd
and Amsterdam confirm today pre-
Vlous !ntimations that all attempts to
hold the Russians within Galicia and
Poland until the combats in the west
are decided, have failed, and that the
Germans, withdrawing from Russian
territory. are combining with such
Austrian forces as have escaped cap
ture or disintegration in final effort
to block the Russians from Prussia
and Silesia.
A Double Movement.
advance is n double movement A
great army Is moving westward from
Warsaw and the south for the pur-
pose of striking at Posen. while an
other army. released from Galicia by
the collapse of Austrian resistance, is
cooperating by an advance against
Cracow. II is conservatively estimat-
ed that the Russian strength, i'm the
two armies, is not less than 100000
this exclusive Of the reserves held to
guard Galicla and Russian Poland and
To complete siege operations. There
are reliable reports also, that Rus
sa, having now at the front troops
ample for the invasion of Germany. is
assembling a second line of 100000
Cossacks Near Cracow.
Details supporting such progress or
the Russian advance were supplied by
the correspondents of Roman ana
London newspapers. The Petrograd
correspondent of the Central News
cables via Rome that Cossacks are al
ready near Cracow the gateway to ST.
lesia. II is assumed this cavalry is
many miles in advance of the main
Russian army in Galicia, but the pres
ence of Cossacks so far westward EN-
phasizes the swiftness of the Russian
movement
Przemysl Is Isolated.
The isolation of the Galician strong
hold OF Przemysl apparently was
made complete by the occupation OF
Khyrow twenty miles south of Pre-
mysl and close to the junction OF the
railroad lines in connection with Jaro-
slau.
The Russian capital is advised that
all traffic has been stopped between
Berlin and the Baltic ports OF Dah"'s'
Elbing and Stettin.
The Balkan allies continue to attack
Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia
Crscow In German Hands.
London, Sept. 26.-"That Cracow mas
been occupied by German troops that
the town has been put under reI
man military commandant ana thal ''''
Austrian civil administration mas peen
replaced is the gist of the latest au-
vices received here" says the Petro-
grad correspondent of the Morni"e
Post.
"AlI the original administration Oh
the town and all civil oiiicials oi '"e
Austrian government have leit anu
the residents are fleeing in panic
THE leaders of the Polish secre'
committee which has been IN eha's
of all the Polish volunteer detacn-
ments fighting on the Austrian side
also have left Cracow.
"The Germans have thrown u"i'o
army corps into the Cracow o's'ri'',
according to this Information anu
are bringing more troops in prepara
tion for the expected Russian ATTACK