The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-13
Events in East Threaten
Fall of Hapsburg House
Partition of Austria Is Already Under Way Behind the
Scencs-Galicia Is Good as Lost and Allies
Hammer at Cattaro.

what must now Immediately interest
the observers OF the great war Is the
effect upon Austria OF the crushing de-
feats Of recent days In Poland and In
Galicia alike. Petrograd already opens
tho question with the suggestion that
there Is break between Austrian and
German high command. that Austrian
armies have refused to follow German
stra .aly further and that in Vienna there
is bitter censure OF the German Invasion
of Poland.
1t II not necessary TO credit all or much
OF this Yet Il Is perfectly plain that
Austrian conditions, after brief amelora-
ton, have again become well nlgh des-
perato No better indication OF this can
be demanded than the despatch from
Rome this morning repeating Vienna
official statement which, in sum. comedies
the return OF Russian troops TO Bukovina
and western Galicia.
This admission means that two Aus
trian provinces have been for second
time almost completely evacuated. Save
for the invested fortress OF Przemysl, the
passes OF the Carpathians and the i'm.
mediate envlrons OF Cracow. Galicia and
Bukovina are now in the hands OF the
Car.
This conquest Is In Itself considerable.
The combined area OF Galicia and Buko-
vina is IS. 900 square miles. or three times
that Of Belgium; the aggregato popnla-
ton o. 900. 900, against 100000 for Bel
gium, and perhaps 100000 for the dis
tricts in France now occupied by the
Germans.
But neither population nor territory
measures the extent Of the disaster 10
Francis Joseph incident to the conquest
of his eastern provinces. In the various
Ill haNa tlrna time
suffered terrible defeat, at Lemberg In
the opening DAYS at Rawaruska, Jaro-
slay. Tomazov in the later days and now
finally before Ivangorod and along the
San.
whatever the maximum possibilities
Of the recent German invasion OF Po-
land. there was no MISLEADING the mini
mum. II was plain from the outset that
the urinary object was TO relieve pres
sure unon the routed Austrian hosts which
were fleoing west toward Cracow and
10 recall the CossaCks from the Hunsa-
rlan Plain At the least the Germans
might hone that In the breathing spell
allowed them their Austrian allies could
reorganize sufficiently TO defend their
own threatened frontier
Worse Than on September ~.
But now, not only has the invasion
failed. bringing with " Russian incur
sons IN East Prussia, even in Posen,
but November IL. to-day. the Austrians
are in worse position than on Sep
tcmbcr 10 and ti~ Russian tidal wave
has set a new mark.
Meantime. looking south toward Ser
via. what Is the situation? on July %
Austria declared war upon Serva and
almost Immediately Austrian cannon
began TO play on Belgrade. But now.
with four months nearly gone. Belgrade
still holds out on August 81 the Ser
vian- brought to a close the battle OF
the Jedar by routing four Austrian army
corps This morning Austrian dispatches
announce that their armies are making
successful progress on this same battle
ne!d and the Servian dispatches deny it.
In this time the fighting has been
mainly on Austrian soil. in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Montenegrin troops have
penetrated nearly to Sarajevo before they
were checked, Servian troops have taken
Semlln and Fotcha. At the end OF four
months Servia, far from being crushed,
seems to keep the field in full strength.