New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
City in Russian Poland
Said To Be Scene of
Firing on Civilians.
ITS MAYOR NEARLY
BEATEN TO DEATH
Cars General Staff Reports
Dislodgement of Big Body of
Austrian Troops.
By HERBERT CHETwYND.

tSVcCial CORE Spondent OF me new iul n
Tribune and London STANDARD
St. Petersburg via London, Aug.
11.-Gross excuses by German troops
are reported from Kalish, in Russian
Poland, where the Mayor is stated by
eyewitnesses to have been nearl}
beaten to death by orders Of the Ger
man officers, who ordered the manager
of the local treasury and the messen-
ger of the town council to be shot for
assisting the Mayor.
The Germans also made hostages Of
the principal inhabitants and repeated
~ fired on civilians, killing many.
TBy The Associated Press.l
st. Petersburg (via London, Aug.
1.-THE correspondent of the "Rech"
at Jassy, Rumania, gives what he says
are the Austrian plans for the cam
paign against Servia. The Danubian
army, after taking the fortresses in
Northern Servia, he says, will proceed
south through the valley Of the
Morava.
The objective of the army OF the
Drin is Novipazar, whence 1t will pro-
coed to Veles, in the vilayet of Sa-
loniki, and effect a junction with the
Danubian army.
The third army will advance along
the Montenegrin border, from that
point moving parallel with the Drin
army, cutting off Montenegro and pro-
ceeding to Northern Albania.
The general advance will be delayed
until the Austrian concentration Is
complete. Then it is proposed to
crush Servia as quickly as possible.
A telegram received here to-day from
Vienna says six carloads OF German
prisoners passed through that city this
morning on their way to the interior
of Russia. Four wounded German OH
GERS were taken to the Wilma Hospital.
The Russian General Staff announces
that the Russian troops to-day dis
lodged large body of Austrian troops
from the entrenched village Of Zalotche
in Austrian Galicia to the southwest
of Radziviloff in the Russian Province
of Volhynia. The Russians sabred
section of the 18th Austrian Infantry,
while the 18th Austrian Lancers and
the SD Austrian Landwehr fed In dis
order.
The Austrian troops that took Rad
ziviloff hastily evacuated the place az
ter the Russian success on Austrian
territory. No other serious engage
ments have been reported from the
Austro- Russian frontier.
Stockholm (via London), Aug. IL
The captain of the Swedish steamer
Runeburg, which arrived here tonight
from Raumo, Finland, reported that
the Russians are concentrating their
troops at all important points along the
Gulf of Finland, especially at Ekenas,
on the north side Of the entrance 70
the Gulf, and Sveaborg, and keeping IN
reserve a considerable force, reported
10 number 100000 men.
A pier. half a mile in length, IN the
harbor of Haugo, was blown up Dy
mistake. The commander, who had oeen
ordered to prepare for the possible oe-
struction of the pier, hanged himseli
o ndiscovering that he had acted pre-
maturely.
The concentration of Russian forces
in strength at Ekenas apparently dls-
nroves the report widely published sat
urday that a German army OF 4O,ooo
men had been landed there and was
marching on Helsingfors.