The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-11-11
HOW $4,000 WERE LOST
AUSTRIAN DELIVERED SOLDIERS
INTO ENEMIES HAND.
Remarkable Story Credits Railroad
Manager With Dispatching Troop
Trains Into Russia.

The following details Of the trea
son of the Austrian railroad man
ager at Lemberg, whose execution
was reported by cable some time age
are contained in a private letter re
ceived in New York from CORE
spondent in Galicia:
when at the beginning of Angus
hostilities between Russia and Aus
tria-Hungary were announced, th'
latter's plan of campaign covered th'
movement of several army corps corn
posing the left wing, to the north O.
Cracow, with objective of Lublin ane
Warsaw, in command of Gen. Dankl
The operations of the right wing
conf1ded to Gen. Auffenberg, compris
ed the holding the line Of railroad
Cracow-Lemb emberg-Czernowitz, an ad
vance to the frontier, the invasion o.
Russian territory, and the capture o.
Warsaw.
"Lemberg, the main railway cen
ter, became the destination Of hun
dreds of trains, soldiers, ammunition
and supplies, from there to be dis
tributed at points designated. Regi'
ments, artillery parks, divisions, and
corps were billed to Lemberg, and
their arrival was duly reported tc
headquarters. Thence, onward to
the frontier, further reports became
fragmentary, and often were not
made at all, so that Gen. Auffenbere
remained entirely in the dark as to
the position of his troops. They
were traced as far as Lemberg, but
beyond there they had gone astray
nobody could tell where, or how.
can investigation was ordered, and
officers Of the generals staff were
detailed for that purpose. They trav-
eled in army automobiles tc Lemberg,
where, by accident, they overlook
Gen. R, also in his car, and pre-
ceding his commands that was to come
along in trains as, A., 49, booked to
Lemberg for garrison duty.
Together they drove to the rail-
road station to question the chief
manager and head of the transporta-
ton service on the Lemberg-Czerno-
witz line, who was also PriVy Coun-
cillor.
They were talking to him when
the head train dispatcher entered and
advised his chief that trains 46, Al.
and 4S had entered blocks /, 2, and
8, Gone, two and three kilometers
distant from the depot), and inquired
whether they should be routed for
ward, the same as previous trains.
The manager replied:
Certainly, and hurry them; here
are staff officers making inquiries"
"Gen. R asked to have the
train number repeated.
Have you the telegraphie orders
to send the trains beyond Lemberg.
he questioned.
Certainly; I'll go and get them.
was the reply.
NO, do not trouble yourself, Mr.
Councillor said the General. BE
good enough to send for them At
the same time the General motiohed
his aide, who happened to wear
multi, to accompany the messenger.
The two proceeded to the rail
road telegraph Office, but there were
no orders there as to trains 46, Al,
or 4S. The operator volunteered the
remark, The dispatch orders may
possibly be in the lower Office, down
these steps There the Captain in
multi discovered route orders for 46,
At, 4S to go direct to the Russian
frontier, and that the telegraph wires
led to Russian army headquarters.
The arrivals Of Austrian troop trains
and all the Austrian movements had
been telegraphed to the enemy. The
trains were sent into ambushed posi-
tions and virtually kidnapped by the
Russians.
1.-THE arrest Of all of the railroad
employees followed quickly, from
train dispatchers to general manager.
4 military court was constituted. It
was revealed that all the railroad Of
ficials were in the pay Of Russia.
Train 46. opportunely coming in, the
railroad men we're marched out into
the yard and forced to dig holes
They heard the sentence and their
bodies fill the graves.
About 10000 of the pick of Aus
trian soldiers had been delivered tc
the enemy by treachery. The plan
for the right wing had to be aban'
doned and Lemberg evacuated. Rus.
sia took possession Of more than
three-ffths of Galicia and all of Buk.
owina. Cossacks threatened Cracow
entered Hungary, and endangered
Dankl's forward move.
"a cable message a few days since
reported that Gen. Brudermann, q
former commandant of Lembert, hac
been cashiered and ordered to appear
at a court-martial for trial on the
charge of high treason"