New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
Retreat of Enemy from
Before Warsaw De-
scribed as a ROut.
PRISONERS TAKEN
BY THE THOUSANDS
Austrians Fighting Stubbornly
Further South on the
Vistula and the San.

Petrograd, Oct. 23.-News OF Russian
progress in the great fight continues TO
come along in fragmentary notes.
II is now known that the retreat from
before Warsaw deserves to be called
rout, though Grand Duke Nicholas uses
the words "rapid reti ement."
The maneuvres of the Russians
upset the Germans plans and com
/ PEELED them to hurry up their corps
/ from far south Of Warsaw, where, &C
cording to their original plan, they
should have forced a crossing OF the
Vistula and got in the rear of the Rus
sian lines.
/ Apparently the Germans suffer from
shortage of cavalry, for the com
manders of corps, when ordered up
| from the direction Of Radon north
ward toward Warsaw. hastily gathered
such Austrian cavalry regiments as
were available TO use as an advance
guard. Among the prisoners taken be-
! fore Warsaw are several Austrian cav
alrymen of different regiments, whose
/ presence is thus accounted for.
The Vistula, in the region covered by
! the present operations, is from ZOO
wards to nearly half mile wide, with
bridges only at the first-class fortresses
| of Noyopeorgievsk, Warsaw and Ivan
gorod. The river is q quarter OF p
| mile wide at the latter point, and the
! fortress stands at the confluence OF the
Veprzh with the Vistula.
Failed TO Destroy Bridges.
Somewhere near here the Germans
| had determined to force passage
| They advanced near enough 70 bonn
/ bard the fortresses of lvangorod with
! heavy guns, but il is reported that the
/ damage Is immaterial, and the bridges
are entirely unframed. The Germans
would probably avoid injuring bridges
/ over n river so wide and from ten TO
/ twenty feet deep which they hope 70
cross, but the omission to destroy the
, bridges here has greatly facilitated the
| Russians advance.
! The garrison of the fortress joined
/ the field army and assisted in driving
/ back the German forces at this point
| Of the 300-mile front. This happened
| on Wednesday, and the Germans, who,
on the previous day, were still tena-
ciously holding their ground south OF
| the river PilitZa, are now retiring from
| this section also.
Austro- German mixed forces still
| further south have begun a general
retirement about the latitude Of Novo
! Alexandria. South of Ivangorod, be-
/ tween the Vistula and San rivers, fight
! ing still continues, and is reported be
be Of the most desperate character,
| but, again, further to the south the
Russian attack has already proved sue
cessful, and prisoners have been taken
to the number of 1900 unwoundcd men
and several score of officers, without
counting the wounded.
Prisoners in Thousands.
A few miles north of Przemysl the
! Russians took an intrenched position
on the heights and put the Austrians
70 flight in great disorder. over 1000
unframed men and 200 wounded were
/ taken prisoners here. These figures
! sufficiently indicate to military men
/ the nature of the defeat inflicted.
/ Twenty-Five officers were among the
unwounded prisoners at this point.
On the extreme south. approaching
/ the spur of the CarpathianG, Russians
| operations are proceeding satisfactor-
lily.
The Russian pursuit of the routed
| German left wing is being rapidly
! pressed. Among the prisoners captured
J is the master of the horse at the Court
/ of Saxony, who was taken in the
/ Kings motorcar at Lovich. Russian
/ cavalry are thus half way to the Ger
man fortified positions long ago pre-
/ pared on the line of the River Warta.
| Lovich is about fifty miles west Of
/ Warsaw, and sufficiently far away
/ from the line of German attack to
/ give the Saxon official sense Of
complete security, out of which he
was most disagreeably surprised by
the appearance of Siberian Cossacks
who, with another cavalry division,
considerably promoted the breakup
of the main German forces.
IL will be several days before ap-
! proximately accurate figures of Ger
man losses in the present battles can
be collected, but they probably ap-
proach 100000.
The following official communica-
tion was issued tonight by the Rus
sian General Staff:
"The energetic offensive of our
armies, which have crossed the Wis
lula on large front, encounters no re-
sistancc on the part OF the Germans.
who continue to retreat.
an the trenches below Ivangorod
We took large quantities of war stores
and ammunition abandoned by the re-
serve corps Of the Prussian guard in
its hasty retreat.
"The Austrian armies continue TO
fight with stubbornness on the Vistula,
on the San, and particularly to the
south Of Przemysl.
"In East Prussia there is no change
in the situation
Count Potocki Shot.
Official confirmation was received
here to-day of the death by shooting
by the Germans of Count Thomas Po-
toeki, a we'll known Polish sportsman
and breeder Of racehorses.
In those portions OF Russian Poland
occupied by the Germans previous to
their first defeat all the fruit orchards
were destroyed by them. according to
information made public here to-day.
Bishop Anastasia reports that during
the first invasion of the Province of
, Kholm by the enemy German and Aus
trian troops pillaged all churches
which fell into their hands. In COM
parison with this procedure the BISHOP
relates, the Slav soldiers have respect
ed all places of worship
The Persian Legation in Petrograd
has denied reports of the conduct of a
war propaganda in Persia.
London, Oct. 23.-In the battle on
the river Vistula from Warsaw south
to the River Pilitza, the Russians have
scored an important victory in driving
the Germans back and have captured
many prisoners besides guns and am
munition. But the defeated army is
still in being, and when it gets back
to its selected position il can intrench
itself and start another siege battle,