Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
GERMAN|C FORCES
/. BEGIN A GIGANTIC
BATTLE IN POLAND
Desperate Attack on Rus
slams Center Opens Crucial
Struggle in East.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS JOIN
TEUTONS IN GREAT CLASH
Auscovites Beaten in Hungary, Pur-
sued by Dual Monarchy Troops.
Says Vienna Dispatch.
BERLIN DENIES PEACE RUMoR
No Overtures Made to United States,
Says Official Communication
Both Sides Claim Victories in
Conflicts Along Vistula.

BERLIN. October IL. via The Hague
and London.-Preparation are under
way for a gigantic battle in the east
ern arena of the war where Aus
trian and German armies have taken
positions along the River Vistua and
the River San and are ready for even
Qualities The retaking OF !Tzeinysl
as announced from Austrian sources,
has permitted the unfolding of the
{. power of the Austrians from the direc-
ton of Lemberg. and the advance in
the southern Carpathian mountains is
menacing the extreme left wing of the
Russians.
Desperate fighting already is going on
along the center of the two armies on
the banks of the vistula. This action
has been in a measure delayed owing
to the bad condition of the roads in
southern Poland and the presence of
sections of swampy lands. This condi-
tfon has made necessary detours on
the part of the Austrian and German
forces.
Russians East of Vistula.
The Russian army is east of the Vis-
tula. This fact is regarded in Berlin
as making its advance, and the gen.
eral management of the campaign, "A
difficult matter and at the same time
unfavorabIe.
The Russian attack on the Austrians
and Germans, unless they succeed in
recrossing the Vistula, which would
be difficult undertaking at the pres
ent time, will not be an easy matter.
The Austrian and German commanders
. p<r h~o orfy1e mil ND hnyr ha
fortress of Ivangorod and the belt of
fortifications between Warsaw, Praga.
Novo Georgijewsk and Segriche serve
as Russian supports.
It Is understood here that heavy
sAghting for possession of the bridges
at the head of the Vistula Is imminent.
German troops already have reached
the terrain commanded by the forti-
dcations mentioned above.
Germans Fill In Gap.
PETROGRAD, October II, by way of
London. 40 p.m.-According to Russian
Information the Germans are making
"demonstrative'' advance near Miawa.
northeast of Warsaw. which is intended
to fill the gap between the East Prus-
sian front and the main front. which
extends north and south on line across
Russian Poland.
The German army by continuous
maneuvering under heavy artillery fire
and with day and night outpost fighting,
still is endeavoring to feel out possible
chances to cross the Vistula Refugees
from that neighborhood say that until
three days ago all German attempts to
cross the river had been repulsed with
heavy losses. The Germans found the
river too wide for pontoons and numbers
perished in attempting to ford it.
Poles in that region are said by the
refugees to be hampering considerably
the German advance by destroying all
shelter and provisions. leaving waste
lands for the invaders.
Nine hundred Austrian prisoners ar
rived today at Nehita. Siberia.
Driven Out of Hungary.
LONDON. October Il (6:4s p.mD-A
dispatch to Reuters Telegram Com
pany from Amsterdam says that the
following message has been received
from Budapest by way of Berlin:
The Russians who were driven out
of Marmaros yesterday were beaten
near Rahov. where they had occupied
intrenchments. The Russians fed in
the direction of Koeroesmezoe Ga Hun
garian village in the province of Mar
maros)- They were pursued by the
Austrfans.
The Russian force is now reduced
to four thousand men. the last frag-
ment of the great army which pene-
trated Hungary. Small forces may still
be in the forests, but they surrender
without resistance when caught"
Bethmann-Hollweg Quits Brussels
BERLIN, October II, by wireless to
Eayville, L. I.-Dr. Won Bethmann- -Holl-
veg, the German imperial chancellor,
who went to Brussels last Wednesday,
left that city today for general head
quarters to report to Emperor William.
in Brussels the chancellor conferred
with the civil and military authorities
The North German Gazette has made
public the reports of several German
diplomatic representatives, which re-
fer to the circumstances leading up to
the present war. Among these is a re-
port made in June of 1914, which shows
Franco-Russian action. on the occasion
OF the English royal visit to Paris. in
an endeavor to conclude an Anglo Rus
sian naval convention and to change
the triple entente into an alliance.
The paper also publishes report
dated in June of 1914. which is accom-
panied by Russian secret document on
the Anglo-Russian conference held May
26 at the house of the chief of the Rus
sian naval staff. In this document care
full details of the distribution of parts
of both the English and the Russian
navies are set down. as are also ar
rangenents regarding the Bosphorus
and the Dardanelles.
The Gazette concludes it's presenta-
tions with the publication of an inter-
cepted report by aid-de-camp of a
Russian grand duke. dated July 2S. 1914.
in which it is stated that Russia. since
July "a has been bent on war. The aid
de-camp stfgmatizes Rasputins exhor-
tatton to peace: addressed to Emperor
Nicholas. as well as NJ Kokovsoff's ex.
pressions of love of peace. He declares
that even catastrophe would be bet.
ter than a permanent and sultry peace
and says that the cabinet council in
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