Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS
INCREDIBLE, SAYS DUMBA
Austrian Ambassador Denies Truth Of
Stories From Petrograd.

D NEW YORK, Sept. 1g.-Dr. Constantin
ADumba, the AustIo-H Hungarian Ambassa-
dor, exaspcrated by reports OF extensive
! Russian victories in Galicia and Russian
Poland has given out Il statement char
sacterizing the reports as absolutely false
land misleading, and designed TO lnnu-
Ience public sentiment against Austria
Ambassador Dumba's statement reads:
81 am compelled to protest most en-
Ephatlcaly against the false reports sent
Erla London from Rome, Milan, Geneva,
HCopenhagon and st. Petersburg about the
austrian campaign in Russian Poland
and GalIcia. To quote some of these re-
Hp0rts purportmg to come from official
sources: ....
CALLS STORY INCREDIBLE.
"The Austrions lost since the battles
Of Lemberg $4,000 men, dead and
wounded and 100000 prisoners I have
4 read this incredible lie at least twenty
|ltimes In big headlines, repeated even In
yythe same paper several times. But we
hear that Immediately afterward the
{ Austrian Generals, Dankl and Auffen-
: berg. who had TO retreat from Russian
s Poland, succeeded in uniting and rally
s ing for a new flag | do not think that
: anybody endowed with a little common
sense can for nne moment believe that an
army Of 100000 having lost 100000 men
should be able Immediately to rally for
a new fight.
According to official co Pctro-
srad news, the Austrians, while recedinE
and hotly pursued To Lemberg, had al
ready lost about 10000 men There was
hardly any one left to tell the tale)
The steel forts of the first class fortress
Of Michailnwsk had been sllenced and
stOmcd with incredible bravery by the
Russians In reality Michailowsk is
small village with 9O7 inhabitants. where
The Austrian troops had erected prOvi-
slonal field trenches, The reports spoke
OF 800 Austrian field guns and 1000 heavy
guns captured (Nobody knows the
whereabouts of these mythical 1850 heavy
guns as no Austrian fortress has been
4 taken)
Then again: The backbone of the
austrian army in GalicIa was utterly
broken after the fail OF Lcmberg.' 1t
practically no longer existed, so that
Inc dreaded Cossacks had their choice
between rush to Budapest to join hands
NNh the Serbs and the announced on
''susht to Berlin via Breslau."
CALLS NEWS FANTASTIC.
Count Berchtold, the Austrian Foreign
Secretary, sent the following dispatch by
"geless denying Russian reports:
after the battle of Lemberg the off,
,,s & russians news agency published as
/ S,o,a Iasi fantastic news about an alleged
.ic'oFy Of the Russians, giving the mum
S 9i prisoners taken as 80. 600 and the
NaIoer ni.er or captured guns as 800.
Is interesting to compare with this
sfos fIols the official communlque OF the Rus
sSa,,. an General Staff, dated September Il,
4 LYN' ue same battle. Here the numbers
nave gone down to 5000 prisoners ana m
eans' The communique admitted that
nosttif' "a binssllow was in a very critical
b@,s'Sl bsrS e, ana escaped defeat only after
siam ,s not at all astonishing that Rus
mans,,i.u useu purely strategic concentrating
bsrg t'eIs OF our forces around Lem
esns,Ir ior spreading false reports; but The
broye,u way in which this is done best
desc, '.i"t our own official war reDorts
'he fullest confidence"