The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-09-19
CHARGES RUSSIAN REPORTS or
VICTORIES ARE UTTER
lv UNTRUE
And That Reported AnnihIIstior- o,
Austrian Army 10 Proved False
by Press Reports.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1s.-Dr. Kon-
stantinN Dumba. Austrian ambassador
to the United States. to-day issued the
following statement:
Il am compelled to protest most
emphatically against the false reports
sent via London from Rome, Milan,
Geneva. Copenhagen and ST. Peters
burg about the Austrian campaign in
RUSSIAN Poland and Galicia To
quote some OF these reports purport-
ing 70 come from officiai sources:
The Austrians lost since the bat
Ties OF Lemberg 100000 dead and
wounded and 100. 900 prisoners / read
this incredible lie at least twenty
times. In big headlines. repeated even
In the same paper several times. But
we near that Immediately afterwards
the Austrian Generals. Dankl and Auf-
fenberg. who had to retreat from Rus
sian Poland. succeeded in uniting and
rallying Tor a new fight | do not
mink that anybody endowed with a
little common sense can for one mo-
ment believe that an army OF one mil
non having lost 450. 700 men should he
fight.
According to official (?) st Peters
burg news. the Austrians, while reced-
ing and holly pursued TO Lemberg,
nag already lost about 100000 men.
tIhere was hardly anybody left to tell
the tale.) The steel forts OF the first
class fortress OF Nichailowsk had been
silenced and stormed with incredible
bravery by the Russians. On reality
Nlcnailowsk is small village with
sOf inhabitants, where the Austrian
troops had erected provisional field
Austrian field guns and 900 heavy
guns captured Nobody knows the
whereabouts OF these mythical 900
heaVy guns. as no Austrian fortress
aid been taken).
Backbone Borken.
Then again. The backbone OF the
austrian army IN Galacia was utterly
broken after the fall OF Lemberx: II
practically no longer excited so that
tne dreaded Kossacks had the choice
between rush TO Budapest TO ION
hands with the Serbs and the an
bounced onslaught to Berlin via BresJ
Some days later we hear from W
emma that the Austrian troops made a
nrm stand in Grodek, southwest OF
Lemoerg. and after a FIVE days bat
Tie took 10000 Russian prisoners and
captured many guns.
"St- Petersburg cables that the two
Austrian generals. Dankl and Auffen-
oerg' are entrapped between the fort
ress OF Przemysl and Cracow and that
tnelr surrender Is shortly expected.
(E.N.1dently by the reporter alone.)
~ What IN reality happened is this (:
Inc Austro-Hungarian troops had
from the beginning to wage in eastern
6ancia defensive war against great
ODDS. After repeated engagements
they fell back on their strong line OF
eeIense under the protection of the
hIst class fortress OF Przempsl. The
advance OF our northern and central
army TO Lublin and to the river Bug
although finally checked and repulsed,
achieved Its end TO arrest the progress
OF huge Russian army in the direct.
Ion OF Thorn and Breslau and TO re
neVe the enormous pressure brought
10 bear by Rennenkampf's army on
two or three German army corps left
to defend eastern Prussia Here the
Russian invasion recently resulted in
defeat and disaster.
Far From Imminent.
AS TO the central Russian army
Win the fortress OF Brest-Litowsk "a
lean upon. its onslaught on the Prus,
sian provinces OF Silesia and Posen Is
Tar from imminent. as the Polish ter.
| ritory on the left bank OF the Vistula
occupied by German troops must be
first conquered. The only tangible
result OF the Russian victories an.
nounced to the world with the clio.
quence Of Mountebanks is the occu
patton OF eastern Galicia, a fat open
country without any strategical posi-
tons which had to be given up to the
enemy as everybody knew in Austria.
The general san of the dual mon.
archy on the other hand announced
as result OF four weeks fighting. the
capture OF Al 900 Russian prisoners
and OF 30 guns. figures which prima
facie bear the color OF truth.
The news coming especially from
Rome fOften in the shape OF fictitious
cables from ST. Petersburg insist up.
on the outbreak of panic and prevail.
ence OF famine in Vienna. Both tales
are absolutely false and Of pure fict
ion"
chua he. .no,t a. e. soo o. 90,