The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-15
GERMANS ADVANCE
N GREAT FORCE
IN CENTRAL POLAND
New and Powerful Offensive
Movement on Part Of Ger
man-Austrian Armies
Warsaw Objective
OF Movement
Ausrians Assert That They
Are Rapidly Recovering All
Territory Taken by Rus
sia's First Advance

London, Oct. f4.-Certain adj
mission from Petrexrad, coupled
with official statements from
Vienna and Berlin, point TO = new
and powerful offensive movement
by the Germans and AustxiAns In
the central and southern arcs Of
the eastern hats.. line.
There Is reason to believe that
the Germans, instead OF being
driven hack 10 q line OF defense
from Thorn 20 CrsscOw, are
actually advancing In great force
In Central Poland. and arc virtu-
ally at the gates OF Warsaw.
The Austrian general STAFF as
scrts that the Russians have been
forced To evacaate Leapberg, the
capital Of Gsiicia, and the base OF
operations In that province.
A further announcement of the
Austrian general staff Is that the
Aussrians. entirely recovered from re,
cent defeats. nave fstakoi4 the eoun'
try ives; and south OF Przemysl, ane
are driving the Russians in all df'
rections. On the other hand, the Rus
sian general staff informs the world
that the siege of Przemysi is being
pressed with great vigor, that the
outer works have been battered K
pieces and that the Austrian garrison
does not number more than 10000
men.
The struggle for the possession OF
Warsaw may be long drawn out, witt
the coming of winter a favorable fac
tor in Russian operations The near
ness of the Germans TO Warsaw is in
tsx, H. haf no
Cossacks. while hidden in forest near
Warsaw, brought down a Zeppelin by
a we'll directed fire. The crew OF tins
were saved, but the Zeppelin
little damaged, was sent to Warsaw.
Great Struggle ON Tistula.
Concerning the operations in gen.
eral, the Petrograde correspondent 81
the Morning Post sends the following
"A great struggle has been going on
for three days between the Russian
and the Austria German forces along
the Vistuia river IN an arena other
than had been expected. the beginning
of a battle which viii probably last
for weeks
1T Is occurring on front sixty
miles long on the left bank ofsrhe
ytstula, presumably representing the
center of the German hosts 1t may
nants, filled up with heavy levies from
the last reserves, have succeeded in
some semblance of an
orga nized army under the shield Of
German corps in the nighborhood cf
Cracow. and that tn Russian advance
Cracow, during the week OF
silence which has Just passed. has
been withdrawn.
Meantime, the Germans on the
East Prussian frontier are utilizing
their network Of frontier railroads TO
throw forces from flank to hank IN
an endeavor to hold the few positi ons
still left untaken. From descriptions
given OF the warfare along this point.
Il appears that neither side - anxious
to do moro than mark time. tho Rus
SLAMS being content with having de-
feated and thrown back the Germans
onto their own frontiers"
Million and Half In Army.
The Times correspondent in Petro-
grad says:
"On conservative estimate The
German forces known to be on the
eastern frontier number ahons
[ 100000 effective men, not counting
the Austrian troops Of whom There
are about 100000 on the Silesian
'front.'
There Is a report that the Austrian
amies are nutinous. because they have
been forced to take orders from Ger
man generals. and that protests have
gone from the Austrian commanders
to Emperor Francis Joseph.