The Washington herald., 1914-09-08

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saber and dispatched as many more be-
fore he fell, exhausted, to the ground.
Two Russian armies are marching to
invade Hungary from the east and north
while a third Is forcing back combined
| Austrian and German forces that are
! trying to avert a march on Posen and
thence straight on Berlin. according to
an announcement made by the general
stan today.
The forces that will proceed through
Lorgo Pass are said to be FIVE army
corps C2OO,OOo men) and those hedged for
Uzick Pass eight corps C320,0o0 mem.
| 1t was learned today that the Russian
army which was checked in the vicinity
OF Allenstein has been heavily reinforc-
ed. among the new forces sent to the
front being Asiatic trops from Siberia
and Manchuria. Large forces are also
proceeding north from Warsaw.
The general stan states that the Ger
mans who occupied points in Russian Po.
land near the frontier at the outbreak of
the war are evacuating their positions.
The Russians approached Tarnopol on
| August .. The Austrians had thrown up
earthworks, on which were mounted
heavy guns. When the Russians got
within range, the Austrians began bonn
harding them with artillery. The Rus
slams pressed forward against this fire,
and soon were within rifle range. For
three hours the Austrians held of the
invaders, but the Russians refused to
retreat
Finally the Russian infantrymen gained
foothoId in the trenches and hand-to-
hand fighting ensued. The Austrians
were driven from their works and fell
back upon the town.
Prepared Warm Reception.
In Tarnopol preparations had been made
to give the Russians a warm reception.
Sharpshooters were concealed in the
upper floors OF houses and rapid fire
guns were planted in the bclfries Of the
churches. There was furious fighting
before the streets and houses were
c!earedIof Austrians.
A majority of the Russian regiments
carry the Cars portrait on the march
as well as the regimental standard.
Prince Boloselsky, who married Su-
sanna E. Whittier. OF Boston. has pre-
sented the pennant of Gen. Skobelof to
the Russian army in Galicia to be main
tanned as a holy symbol.
', ord from the front says a wounded
Russian noticed forty German noncom-
missioned naval officers in the Red Cross
hospital at Soldap. He made inquiries
and found that they had been transferred |
from the nearest feet for land service.
Gen. Ruzsky, who commanded the Rus
sian army which penetrated Galicia and
took Lemberg, had made a minute study
Of the country before war broke out. He
had been commander OF the Kiev mill
tary district. and il is safe to say that
the conqueror OF LemberG (or Lvov, as
the Russians have renamed it,, knew
every path. gully. and elevation better
than the Austrian leader.
The wounded Cossacks at Minsk state |
that the German military authorities are |
disseminating among the inhabitants OF !
East Prussia the idea that the Cossacks |
are heather cannibals addicted TO fright !
full cruelty When the CossaCks attacked |
SaIIuponen Germans who fed to Inster- |
burg concocted the story that the Cos |
sack chieftain had cut a clergyman's |
heart out at Gumbinnen and was wearing |
il on his lance TO Insterburg.
BarbarIty Charged to Germans.
The correspondent of the Novre Vremya |
"a government newspaper has sent a |
number Of stories from Warsaw charging |
the Germans with barbarities- He de |
clares that German officers went upon the |
battlefield after an engagement and shot |
the wounded Russian officers. The Novre |
Vremya relates the following story. which |
he states he got from a wounded Rus |
sian:
helpless on the field. / saw frightfui
slaughter going on around me. Finally
my turn came. a German. evidently an
officer, reached down and pulled by nose
to See IL I was dead. He felt by body
and found it was warm. Then he drew
his revolver and fired two shots at my
forehead. Luckily both bullets only
grazed my shns while laying uncon-
scious. an artillery caisson passed over
me breaking both legs. I begging my
companions to put me out Of my misery.
but they refused. and now the surgeons
say I am recovering"
The establishment of Russian authority
in GaIicis is reported to be enormously
facilitated by the fact that the native
SIav population is welcoming the invad-
ers with open arms.
II is officially announced that Russian
troops in Galicia have begun a movement
to surround Prezemysl. a fortified town
ffty-five miles south of Lemberg. Prez-
emysI is defended by strong force Of
Austrians.
Henry Sienkiewicz. the famous Polish
author of Quo Vadis? has issued an ap-
peal to all Austrian Poles to fight for
Russia.