The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-04
RUSSIANS
TAKE LEMBERG
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one ensign. eight Maxims and LOCO pris-
oners.
'On tho following day hard fighting
was resumed with renewed energy.
Prisoners taken by US report that the
second Austrian army, constituting the
covering force to the east Of Lemberg.
is perfectly panic stricken.
In the neighborhood of Lemberg on
September 2. twenty more guns were
captured by tho Russians, making .
total Of ITO. it,
'-On this front the Russian advance
continues uninterruptedly."
Masters OF East Galfcia.
London, Sept. THE Times corre-
spondent in Petrograd sends the fol-
lowing: -
Information autographed : the
headquarters. stag today encourages
the hope that th4 victory at LemberE
is only the beginning Of the end. The
retreat Of such a. enormous force,
reliably estimated at eight army corps,
ken in conjunction with the rout Of
the army which was to serve as a
screen to their retreat. already spells
disaster. complete and overwhelming.
Information obtained by the war Of
fee shows the garrison has already
been preparing positions at Grudent,
20 miles to the westward ON the rail-
way to Przemysl.
1.-THE fall of Lemberg, which Is the
ders the Russians absolute masters of
the whole OF eastern Galicia"
A Petrograd dispatch to the Central
News says q Jewish medical student Of
Wilma, named Osnas. received the mil
itary cross Of st. George for saving
the colors of his regiment in the last
extremity during the terrible fighting
in Fast Prussia nsnaS woe fo A1xy
wounded. and his commander tele-
graphed the doctors to do everything
possible to save the life Of Osnas the
hero"
German Sends Help.
Rome. Sept. News is received
from from. Vienna that q German army
Galicia to aid the Austrians against the
Russian attack before Lemberg.
The Campaign in Detail.
London, Sept. 4.-The Times Petro-
grad correspondent, telegraphing con-
corning Russian military operations.
says the Russian forces drew around
the Austrian army like an iron semi
circle. The Austrians thus were
obliged to fight with extreme obsti-
macy, owing to the fact that they
could not hope for any considerable
reinforcements. Tho southern army,
under General Frank. had been almost
completely destroyed by tES Serv1an8,
and the transfer OF tho remnant OF
three corps would alter nothing save
that perhaps in this manner the road
to Budapest would be left open to the
Serbs.
Tho Germans had apparently re-
tired from Polish territory west of
the Vistula ana were unable to send
the Austrians az much Is q single
battalion, SO that tho army under
Archduke Frederick was left to its
own resources.
During the first weeks OF the war
the prfncipa! strength OF the Austrian
army advanced on the left bank Of the
Vistula with the palrable object Of
reaching Warsaw from the south, while
tho German army from eastern Prussia
proposed a simultaneous advance into
Poland from the north. When the
Russian victories at Gumbinnen scat
tered the illusion Of possibility OF ad-
vance on Warsaw the Austrtans en-
ployed their tremendous forces scattered
| on the left bank Of the Vistula to out
| flank the right wing OF the Russian
| army encirclfng Lemberg. To this
| enormous superiority and strength or
the Austrian side must be assigned the
fact that during the first few days Of
| the general engagement OF Tomash the
Russian attack was converted into
defense in which the heroism of the
Russian army surmounted all obstacles
and the Austriano numerical superior