New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-18
PRzEMYSL'S FATE
IN GREAT DISPUTE
Galician Fort Has Fallen
Says Petrograd-Berlin
Reports 1t Relieved.
GERMANS TRYING
TO FORD VISTULA
Russians Waiting for Them
Budapest Announces Utter
Rout of Cars Forces.

London. Oct. 17.-Berlin reports that
,be Galicisn fortress Of Przemysl mas
hson relieved. while the Russian re-
nov, received through Rome says tha'
.ho fortress at last has fallen. IN
Poland both sides insist that they nave
GAINED the advantage in advance guar"
actions. The only thing on when 'he
two sides agree is that inactivity pre-
walls in Suwalki.
In Poland, where a big and u"Poi-
tant battle has begun, the Germans arc
making for the crossings OF the VS.
,,lo behind which the Russians are
waiting for them. The Russian al,
,.a,ce Guard. thrown out in front o.
the river. are falling back before 'ne
German advance, and it is this lighting
,ybicb was doubtless referred to IN 'he
Official reports from Berlin and retro
grad.
Ono account says that the Germans
have taken the offensive with success
hut the Russians declare that the Aus
trians and Germans have been reduced
70 the defensive.
To Fight on Frozen Ground
Il is quite likely that the condition
Of the roads prevents either side from
making any advance, and that they VIII
have 70 wait until the ground has been
hardened by frost before striking their
rosI blows. 1t is often said that bat
lies are impossible in winter. but this
has been disproved by those which nave
occurred in Msnchuria and the Balkans
within recent years. ~
From the Allies point OIL view liie
DELAY in the eastern theatre OF war Il
of Importance, for 1t prevents the OeI
mans from sending relntorcemehVs "
the west. nil.
are giving the Germans some Irouol.5i
and are reported to have organize
marauding parties, which, WhIe tneS
cannot do much damage 10 an army
can interfere with its comm unlCa'lohS
by destroying roads ana DIIuse q.
Ponorts Of fghting in East Prussia
Poland. Galicia and Hungary are so
widely at variance that it is difficult 10
;n6ge of the progress OF the battles
Ans+ria claims TO be driving the Rus
slams out of Hungary, while the Rus
sian generals say they are leaving the
country to escape danger OF injection
from cholera.
Russian Rout Reported.
A Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam
saws that the following message mas
been received from Budapest by way OF
Berlin: ,-. go.
"The Russians who were driven out
If Narmaros Yesterday were beaten
near Rahof. where they had occupied
Entertainments. The Russians ned IN
the direction of Koeroesmezoe ian hun
garjan village in the County OF Mar
maros). They were pursued by the
Austrians. Ill.,,
aThe Russian force is now reduced
IA fruI thousand men-the last trtg-
mont of the great army which pene,,,
+ra+ed Hungary. Small forces may stu
no in the forests, but they surrender
without resistance when caught.
Petrograd. Oct. l7-According to
Russian information, the Germans are
making "demonstrative" advance near
Mlawa, northeast of Warsaw, when Is
intenoed to fill the gap between the
Fast Prussian front and the main front,
which extends north and south on
lire across Russian Poland.
The German army by continuous ma,
nnuvring under heavy artillery nre anu
with day and night outpost hghtine
still is endeavoring TO feel out possIoIe
chances TO cross the Vistula. Refugees
from that reighborhood 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 mum
hers perished in attempting 70 fora 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 to-day at Nehita, Siberia.
A semi-official Russian news agency
is sending out the following:
Turkish delusions tend to diminish.
Certain Liberal Turks are manifesting
discomfort with German domination. IN
Constantinople there have been hostile
manifestations before the German En-
bassy."
Paris. Oct. 17.-This afternoons Off
cial communique says:
ain the Russian field of operations
there has been no change OF lmpor-
lance on the front in East Prussia.
Along the middle reaches Of the Wis
tula River the AustrO- German armies
have been driven TO the defensive in
the entire front. To the south OF
Przemys the fighting continues, and
the Russians have taken 500 prls-
Oners.'
Vienna, Oct. IL. It is announced Off
Cially in Vienna that the lighting con
tinued on Thursday, along the entire
battlefront from Stry and Sambor, both
to the southeast Of Przemysl, 20 the
mouth Of the River San.
an MarmarOs-S Zget, Hungary, the
army has been pursued by Austrian
attachments, which have occupied
Pals"
ain the Valley OF the Black Bistrica
the Russians arc retiring. Our troops
have followed them TO Zielona.
"The River Bistrica and the town OF
Zielona are in Galicia, close to the
hungarian frontier and to the north
east of Marmaros Sziget'
Washington, oct. 17.-Colonel Cole
iewski, Russian military a,tache here,
issued statement to-day ressserting
the accuracy of dispatch from Petro-
Grad, dated October -, made public by
him last night, stating that the Austro,
German troops along the Nistula and
in Galieia had beeen forcd 10 take the
defensive all along the line.
The statement declared that dis