The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-31
Cars Armies Push
Germans Back.
ADVANCE INTO GAL|CIA
Desperate Fighting Along the
IOO-Miie Front
HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
Great Engagement Raging Along
Belgian Front.
HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES

London, Aug. 31.-More than 1,0OU,-
900 are engaged in great battle, tnat
has been raging for three days along
the Austrian-Russian frontier.
The losses have been heavy on botn
sides. and dispatches from ST. Peters
burg declare that the Austrians nave
been unable to check the mighty Rus
sian advance and are being pushed
back into Galicia.
An official statement issued by the
Russian war Office and telegraphed 10
the Reuters Telegram company says
hat fighting is severe along the course
ii the Vistula river.
The Russians claim successes, say
HAT they have captured several
sc oers and that the Aus
men in one engage
es from the Austrian head
keceived in Rome by the Cor
la Sera, declare that the bat
extends from the Vistula river
nneister river, more than 100
fighting has been fully as Sc
as that in Belgium The Russians,
took the offensive, have pene-
ted more than twenty-nine miles
to Austrian territory.
The Austrian troops resisting the
Russians in Galicia have concentrated
1t Kielce, In Russian Poland, and are
proceeding along the right bank OF the
Vistula. k<6ey will take part In the
battle To the east of Lemberg, where
!, thnszE1ssians have taken three hun
FED prisoners. In the fighting in that
region the enemy, it is stated, lost 300
men in killed and wounded.
The Austrians also lost four can
non and q number of caissons to the
Russians.
Austrian REGIMENTS Surrender.
Near Podgroze the cars troops took
100 prisoners, while north to Toma-
~, fifteen Hungarian divisions
defeated. Entire regiments-i il IL
stated, surrendered.
Fierce fighting also continues In
other regions about the Austrian from
tier, and in the direction of Lublin, In
Russian Poland, about 100 miles to the
northeast of Lemberg. In the vicinity
In which the enemy has concentrated
It's principal force a great battle has
taken place.
The newspapers in St. Petersburg
ksve made quite a stir in the Russian
capital by the announcement that the
German railways are preparing to
transport German troops from the
40
sian forces are expected to be en-
gased In an enormous contest within
the next few days.
Russians Invade West Prussia.
The German emperor has not been
quick enough to save West Prussia.
The invading Russians are now In
West Prussia. Cavalry is reported to
have crossed the Vistula river, and a
crossing in force is expected. 1t has
been promised that should the main
army succeed in crossing they would
march direct to Berlin.
It was officially announced in Lon
don that ehe Russians have attacked
Thorn and Graudenz, in West Prus-
sia, having marched from Allenstein,
In East Prussia. Graudenz is on of
Vistula, where Thorn, fortified town,
h about thirty-five miles to the south,
also on the Vistula and just above the
edge of Posen.
In their attack on the two towns, or
on Thorn at least, the Russians are
expected to use the numerous siege
guns they have with them.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
st. Petersburg says that the Russian
advance continues successfully in all
theaters of Russian operations and
that 1t Is only a question Of few
days when the Germans will be driven
beyond the Vistula.
The Germans usered great losses
1T Allenstein after a desperate fight,
according to a Central News dispatch
from Berlin via Amsterdam. The dis
patch adds that the population Of the
eastern provinces is panicstrtcken
and fleeing before the Russians.