Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-17
Russians. Flushed With Victory, Are
Reported to Be Only Nineteen
Miles Away.
EVERY MAN TO THE COLORS
Aged Austrian Emperor Quoted as
Being Mournful Over Necessity
of Calling Out the
Final Reserves.

a.m.-The terribly battered sec
ond Austrian army is safe under
the guns OF Przemysl, but with
the Russians only nineteen miles
away. Desperate efforts probably
will be made to form a junction
with the fourth Austrian army
with the idea of recognizing with
Cracow as the base
The Russians have crossed the
River San. and are hammering
away at the -etreating Austro-
German forces. Despite their un-
precedented losses the forces of
the Gerrnanic allies seem to re-
tain their fighting organization,
and if they gain Cracow they may
prevent the Russian right from
making march on Berlin from
Warsaw.
MAY utdICu Oh WdISdW.
The Pet-oETad military critics express
the belief that the Germans, having
recognized the strategic untmportance
of East Prussian operations, will de-
tach their army from that region and
begin a march on Warsaw. thus fore
sta1ling a Russian offensive on Ber-
lin from that direction.
The position at Grodek. sixteen miles
west of Len2berg, occupied by the Rus
SLAMS Is of great natural strength,
provides an ideal operating base and
in case of a counter attack can be
easily defended.
Call for Final Reserves.
Rome dispatches from Vienna state
that the Neue Erie Presse announces
the approaching call of all reservists
On masse. II
According to the Reichspost, En-
peror Francis Joseph said to the Arch
duke Charles Francis, when the latter
army:
Never in my life has anything cost
me SO much pain as the duty of taking
such grave decision.
4 dispatch from Petrograd to the
Reuters Telegram Company gives this
outline of the situation in Galicia.
The position of Grodek occupied by
the Russians is eighteen miles west of
Lemberg and is situated on the heights
under which chain of six almost
connecting lakes stretch out toward
the Russian frontier. forming a natur-
al defense for fourteen miles running
north and south. The Austrians aban-
doned this position after the capture
of Lemberg.
Mosciska, to which the Russians
have advanced. is little over forty
miles west of Lemberg, on the main
line between Przemysl and Lemberg.
The shattered second Austrian army
was evidently incapable of staying the
Russian advance and took refuge in
Przemysl. from which the Russians,
according to the latest official report,
are only nineteen miles away"
Russian Claim of Successes.
In summing up recent Russian opera
tions the Petrograd correspondent Of
the Exchange Telegraph Company
says:
''The Russians have been successful
in the fighting with the retreating Aus
trians along the whole front, and news
Is continuously coming in Of the cap
ture of further prisoners and guns. On
the left bank OF the River San the
Russians have successfully attacked
the Austrians, who are retreating.
Tn eastern Prussia all OF the Ger
man efforts to surround portion Of
the Russians have failed.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph says:
'The news Of the Russian victories,
say correspondents at the front, have
caused a headlong flight among the Ger
mans in the districts Of Czenstochowa.
klobuko, Sieradz and KalisZ, Russian
Poland. Long transports of munitions
and stores are moving and every daS
loaded trains leave Czenstochowa for
Kreuzburg, Silesia.
tIfrcS $rrNIs anti vxyfd an
ing their radius of action. The in
habitants of Zdunskawola. southeast of
Kalisz. have been given notice to evacu-
ate the town in three days, as 1t is to
provided for those who wish to go to
Germany"
Official Austrian Statement.
Reuters Amsterdam correspondent
sends the following official communica-
tion issued by the Austrian war office
yesterday:
"Our victories near Puizwa have
opened up the possibility of attacking
the strong Russian forces that have
entered east Galicia
THE necessity having arisen to
strengthen the Austrians retreating
after the battle east Of Lemberg, the
victorious army which defeated the
Russians near Komarne twenty-five
miles southwest of Lemberg) received
orders after a short pursuit Of the
Russians to leave behind its inferior
forces and advance in the direction of
Lemberg. This order was carried out
September 4.
1T appears that the Russians intend
ed a flank movement in the direction
of Lublin after having occupied the
capital Of Galicia Uemberg) without
reckoning with our army. which stood
behind the Grodek lake district; but
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