New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-16
RUSSIA'S ADVANCE
MOVEMENT HALTED
Official Report Shows a
Deadlock Along the
Battle Front.
INVADERS STILL
ATTACK PRZEMYSL
General Staff Tells of Capturing
Cases of Dum-Dum Bullets
from Austrians.

Petrocrad, Oct. 15.-The Russian
General staff issued the following
statement to-day:
There is no change to report Oh
the East Prussian ard Central Vistuia
fronts.
South of Przemysl Russian col
rmn engaged and defeated the AUS
trisrs. taking seven ofhcers and 0OO
soldiers prisoners and capturing many
rapid FIRE guns"
The General STAFF Of Klev has given
out statement alleging that dunn
DUN bullets are being used by Aus
trian troops. Eight cases OF these
bullets have been secured IN the inca
ire Of wa. The packages IN wnich
they are put up bear the lnscription,;;
Neutrality-suspicious. NJ T Weit IVA.
According to advices received mere
large numbers Of Rumanian deserters
arc presenting themselves before the
Rumanian Consul at Odessa and de-
handing that they be sent home.
London. Oct. 15.-Russia in the East
seems to have been compelled to FOL
low the steps of her enemy IN the
West and sacrifice the fruits OF her
victories by sending relnforcements
to another part of the long battle
front. Tho resumption of the Austro-
German offensive in Galicia was an
outcome of the action Of Russia IN
sending heavy reinforcements to the
River Niemen, evidently under the
impression that the German invasion
of the Suwalki district was real
menace and not merely dlyertlng
movement.
The withdrawal Of Russian forces
from Western Galicia, however, is be-
lieved here to be not as complete as
first reported, for Vienna admits that
Przemysl is still invested. on one side,
while PetrOgrad reports that the gar
rison of this fortress has been in
vaded by disease and is on the point
of capitulation.
There has been more fighting south
Of Przemsyl on the Styr-Sambor- Medyk
line. which disposes of the report that
Lemberg has been evacuated by the
Russians.
The Austrians say they are attacking
the Russians in this position, while the
Russian report claims victory over the
Austrians and the capture of seven Off
GERS, 500 men and several machine
guns.
In East Prussia the Germans have,
according to Berlin newspapers, reoc-
cupied Lyck and for military reasons
have moved the civilians out Of Goldap
which is the centre of the region W here
the Russians are advancing from
Suwalki.
Austria, which. next to Belgium, is
said to have received the hardest
knocks of the war, has suffered another
blow in the damage done by fire TO a
new battleship and several destroyers
which were about completed at Mon
falcone. This fire was of incendlary
Iature. and shows to what lengths Aus
tra's internal enemies will go TO Grip
pie her. The battleship was to have
been launched next Sunday with impos-
ing ceremony.
Dispatches from the Russian capital
refer 70 activity along the Nistu "a
River, where several attacks are said
TO have been repulsed, and declare that
the great battle probably is now under
way, unless the Austro-German advance
has been hampered by bad weather.
Amsterdam. Oct. 15.-The evacuation
of Goldap. in East Prussia, by the
civilian population is revealed by the
Cologne Gazette's" correspondent at
Rastenburg. who says that the de-
parture was caused by military reasons
and precautions.
"Al the Russian attacks on this side
have been repulsed," the correspondent
adds, "and the Russians forced back
across the frontier. 1t is estimated
that from six to eight army corps are
along the frontier from Schirwindt to
q point opposite Lyck East Prussia.
THE Russians attack mostly at
right. but are always repulsed with Sc
we're losses. There is no reason to fear
that East Prussia is in any way en-
dangered."