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.

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Dr. Constantin
Z Dun,ba, the Austro-HunEarian Amhassa-
n, exasperated by reports of extensive
: ussIan victories in Galicia and Russian
y. GLAND, has given out statement char
acterizing the reports as absolutely false
and misleading, and designed to iniiu-
ence public sentiment against Austria
Ambassador Dumba's statement reads:
II am compelled to protest most en-
phatlcay against the false reports sent
via London from Rome, Milan, Geneva.
4 Copenhagen and st. Petersburg about the
s Austrian campaign in Russian Poland
and Galicia. To quote some of these re-
ports purporting to come from official
sources:
2 CALLS STORY INCREDIBLE.
w "The Austrians lost since the battles
~ Lemberg $4,000 men. dead and
! 7ounded and 100000 prisoners I have
tEead this incredible lie at least twenty
ztimes in big headlines. repeated even in
the same paper several times. But we
Uear that Immediately afterward the
n Austrian Generals, Dankl and Auffen-
Lperg, who had to retreat from Russian
Poland succeeded in uniting and rally
= 80 aN' a A'N IcEs uO llbl lHlllh NIHN
anybody endowed with q little common
sense can for one moment believe that an
amy Of 100000 having lost 100000 men
should be able Immediately to rally for
new fight
according TO official (O Petro-
sfad news, the AustrIans, while recedlng
ana hoty pursued to Lemberg. had al
ready lost about 100000 men. Crhere was
nadly any one left to tell the tale.)
Ihs steel forts of the first class fortress
OF hchailowsk had been silenced and
II 2med with Incredible bravery by the
Rtssans' In reality Michailowsk Ia n
EI;mal village with 9O7 inhabitants, where
the austrian troops had erected provi-
sionsi held trenches. The reports spoke
Vi w Austrian field guns and 1000 heavy
sun' captured. (NObody knows the
mneLea0outs of these mythical 1000 heavy
, as no Austrian fortress has been
Inen again: The backbone of the
srOriah army in Galicla was utterly
nsa n.ua. etter the fall OF Lemberg.' 1t
no longer existed, SO that
bstv dreaded Cossacks had their choice
v,,S rush to Budapest to Join hands
WIN The Serbs and the announced ON
r'suSh' to Berlin via Breslau."
CALLS NEWS FANTASTIC.
yum herchtold, the Austrian Foreign
Ilgiressas sent sent the following dispatch by
E",ss "Sn.s denying Russian reports:
n HIsr the battle Of Lemberp the on
aumsiN russians t news agency published as
icto,v 'aa'astic as news about an alleged
ger =; ot the Russians. giving the num-
1npmS ~ Prisoners taken as 5000 and the
IT. - ot captured guns as sOO
s.oy tba ,hIssIesting nsl to compare with this
siaD eas Sas oniclal communlque OF the Rus.
SoptI General zen STAFF, dated September "a
lays sos 'ne same battle. Here the numbers
.aas 'YPs Tso down to 5000 prisoners and 10
9spsr,, me eommunique admitted that
,osItIon, nlussilow was in a very crIticaI
ard Spbt,n ana escaped defeat only after
Hans ussS not at all astonishing that Rms
nanepv1"enul 1eu purely strategic c9ncentratin. T1
lsrg for s, OF our forces around Ien,s as.ns
AjuuoS' Spreading false reports: but I'm, I'M
ROyes may way In which this is done hast @
asserys Una. MAJ our own official war " renoTfs orfs
'He fullest confidence" 'epo' 70