Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-09
BY FRANCIS M'CULLAGH,
international News Service.

ehiOuSAouG lu0 MdHCuuTldu WAL anu
one of my old Cossack friends who
was brought back to Petrograd,
wounded, from Lemberg, has given me
some account of the engagements
which took place near the Galician
| capital. The Cossacks were often
three days in the saddle and were the
| first Russians to enter Lemberg.
Our turn came" said my Cossack
friend, when the Austrians began to
give way to our infantry Then we
| were let loose on the enemy's broken
| rear and soon converted the retreat
into rout. We heard them cry out
! in terror, Die Kozaken! Die Koza-
ken!'
Swept Like Straw.
"The Hungarian cavalry tried to
| stop us, but we swept them aside like
| straw. They had red breeches and
our Cossack women. They also had
fine horses and were good riders, but
| did not know in the least how to use
| their spears. When we, the Don Cos
| sacks, stick men with our spears we
| throw into the blow not only our own
| weight, but the whole weight of our
| horses.
"The Austrians fled in panic, throw
| fng away their rifles, abandoning their
| cannons and machine guns and trans
| port wagons full of hay and provisions.
| The same morning the Cossacks rode
into the conquered town. All the
| shops were closed and more than half
| the inhabitants had fed. Those who
remained cheered the Russian van
guard.
Welcomed by People.
"Triumphal arches made from the
| boughs OF trees were erected across
| the streets. Russian flags floated from
| the windows and many of the towns
| people greeted us in good Russian.
| Nobody fired on us. We were received
as friends and brothers and everybody
was very kind.
Before noon General Ruzsky rode
| down the principal street, preceded by
| a military band and standard bearer
| carrying the Russian flag. We, Don
! Cossacks, had our trumpeters with us
| when we entered, and it was as If we
| entered Kiev or Holy Moscow itself.
| The church bells rang and the Pravos-
| tavy popes came out of their churches
passed. Little girls dressed in white
| strewed flowers in the path of General
Ruzsky, who rode, surrounded by his
| officers, and the wise men of the town
met him in their robes of office end
made him an address of welcome"
Campaign Is Bloody.
We have heard little of the pro-
| longed and terrible struggle in Poland
| and Galicia. Nevertheless that cam
paign has been as bloody as that on
the Meuse, and the Austrian, though
beaten, has struggled CALAMITY.
The Russians greet the Austrians in
a friendly way when prisoners arrive.
1t is not easy to arrive at correct
estimate of the number of Austrian
prisoners now interned in various
parts of Russia. The Bourse Gazette,
one of the leading evening newspapers
of Petrograd, sets the figure at 100000.
Among them is the former Austrian
commandant of Lemberg. The prison
ers include an extraordinary number
of Slavs.
Prisoners a Puzzle.
What shall we do with our Austrian
prisoners ?" is the cry of the moment.
The best Austrian troops, those
with
the Slavs and know nothing about
them, while the troops from eastern
Austria are half Slav themselves, or
else are easy-going and not serious.
This want of seriousness constitutes
a. great moral defect in the AuStro-
Hungarian army. 1t explains the read
mess of the Austrians to retreat or
surrender.
The following communication has
been received from the staff of Grand
Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of
the Russian forces in the field:
Fortress Is Bombarded.
"The enemy has approached Osso-
wetz from the north and has begun
the bombardment of the fortress.
'Tn Galicia we have occupied De-
bica, on the railway 65 miles east of
Cracow, and between Bzeszow and
Tarnow.
"At Coloujok we defeated detach-
ment of the enemy and captured his
artillery and many prisoners. Continu-
ing the pursuit, we entered Hungary"
Meets Big Obstacles.
The Russian army in East Prussia
under General Rennenkampff has been
meeting terrible obstacles for the last
three weeks. One of the greatest of
these is the fortified camp in the So
called Mazurian lake district Of Ger
man Poland. There are innumerable
small lakes and the marshy ground
between them is covered with forests.
Checked by Big German Force.
The area is occupied by German
army OF from 200O 900 to 100000 men,