The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1914-10-23
LITTLE PROGRESS
MADE IN EAST
AUSTRIAN, GERMAN AND RUS
SIAN FORCES ARE ALL CLAIM.
ING TO HAVE ADVANCED.
Western Newspaper Onion News Service


Loondon.-German and Russian re.
ports agree that the situation in the
East has not changed, although the
armies are in close touch along the
East Prussian frontier and across Pc
land and Galicia. In Galicia, how
ever, the Austrians claim to have re-
pulsed the Russian attacks, and to
be making progress in their campaign
to drive out the invaders.
The Russians say they are making
large numbers of prisoners. Heavy
fighting still is going on around
Przemysl, and the cupolas of the
forts surrounding the town are said
by an Italian correspondent to have
been destroyed by the big Russian
siege guns, while the forts have been
mined and dismantled and the maya.
zines blown up. The town itself
however, has not been damaged
The same correspondent says the
battle continues on the Vistula, San
and Dneister rivers. There is sys-
tenn of great entertainments on the
Russian side and the entire front is
furnished with powerful guns which
day and night hurl thousands of pro-
jectiles into the enemy's lines
The Austrians and Germans, adds
the correspondent, have been obliged
to remain on the defensive. but have
repulsed a great cavalry attack to
the west of Warsaw
The Austrians are claiming far
more success against the Russians
than are the Germans. but even adj
hitting the qualifications of their
claim, their forces which are alleged
to be driving the Muscovites out of
the Carpathian mountains, still are
at least 70 miles south of Przemysl
and Lemberg.
Reports from the opposing forces
engaged in great battles along the
Austro-German and Russian frontier
continue to be brief and contradictory.
While the Russians are claiming
gains. Vienna declares that the Aus
vances in both regions and that the
Russian casualties at Przemsyl num-
Der 10000
A dispatch to the Times from Petro-
grad dated Monday says:
Fierce fighting has been in prog
ress since yesterday west of Warsaw
The Russian columns have resolutelv
hurled back the Germans toward
their main positions on the line of
Skiernewice, Kilce and Sandomir.
Correspondents at the front give
descriptions of fierce artillery duels
and tell of the capture of large num-
bers of prisoners. including many
Saxons. They add that the Germans
are exhausted and starving"
A newspaper correspondent at Lem
burg, referring to the German losses
in the attempts to cross the upper
San, telegraphs that this river is filled
with the bodies of German soldiers
floating down to augment similar
fotsam on the Vistula, where other
German troops have met the same
fate. The correspondent says none of
the repeated attempts to cross the
San has been successful.
Several outer forts at Przemysl are
reported to have been captured, but
they are not considered important. as
Przemysl already has been isolated.
A Reuter- dispatch from Vienna. via
Amsterdam, gives an official state
ment OF the Austrian operations in
Galicia issued Sunday by General Won
Hoefer, deputy chief of the Austrian
General staff. 1t says:
Our attack in the battle on both
banks of the Strwiaz river, south of
PrZemysl, was continued Yesterday
and our troops succeeded in getting
close to the enemy At several points
our troops were advancing against a
fortress. Last night several attacks
of the Russians were repulsed with
heavy losses. for our heavy artillery
is now in action.
The pursuit of the enemy north
of Wysckow, near the Carpathian
mountain passes, has continued In
advanced over the Carpathians.
Russians losses during attacks on
Przemysl are estimate at 10000 dead
and wounded"
Turkey Holds German Sailors.