The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-09-05
500 AuStriQnS Dead On
Battlefield At HQIicz
Village Near Russian Frontier Where Forces of Franz Josef
Tried IN Vain to Stem the Tide of the Cars Adj
vance, Described in War Primer by Ma ;;
tional Geographic Society.

Halicz, an Austrian town in Eastern
Galicia, sixty miles from the Russian
frontier, where the Austrian army left
$500 dead in its tracts in a recent vain
attempt to stem the tide of the Russian
advance, is described in today's war
primer by the National Geographic So
ciety. The primer reads:
''Senlis-A town Of Northern France, on
the Nonette, thirty-four miles north OF
northeast of Paris by rail and twenty
six miles by airline. Its population Is
about 1900. Its Gallo-Roman walls,
twenty-three feet high and thirteen feet
thick, are, with those Of st. Lizier and
Bourges, the most perfect in France. At
each of the sixteen angles Of the wall
stands a tower. The city has five gates.
The manufacture of bricks and tiles,
cardboard, measures and other wares
are among the industries. The Leaguers
were beaten there in 1883 by Henry l and
Francois de la NOue. The treaties OF
'l475" and 1879 were signed at Senlis.
"Hancz-An Austrian town in Eastern
Galicia, seventy miles by rail south bf
southeast of Lemberg. and sixty miles
from the Russian frontier, situated at
the confluence of the Lucknow with the
Dniester. Its principal resources are the
recovering of salt from the neighbOring
brine walls soap-making and the trade
in timber. Excavations in the neighbOr-
hood, made during the nineteenth CEN
tury, show that the town was much
larger in the early eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and that IL probably met its
doom during the Mongrel invasion of 1910.
In 1349 II was Incorporated in the king
dom Of Poland. Its present population
is about 5000.
wilma CWilno)-A Russian town. 436
miles south by southwest of st. Peters
burg and 10 miles from the Prussian
frontier. at the intersection OF the rail-
ways from st. Petersburg to Warsaw
and from Libau to the mouth Of the Don.
Its population in 1910 was 1s4,5S2. II is
an important center for trade in timber
and graip and is the seat of many scien-
tihc societies. Wilma was united with
Poland in l447 The plague of 15SS. the
fire in 1910. and the wars between Russia
and Poland. which began in the seven
teenth century. checked its growth. The
Russians took Wilma in 1866. the Swedes
captured in l702 and in 1706. and the
Russians regained it in l7SS II was finally
annexed to Russia in 1875, after the par
tition Of Poland.
LODI U1Odzia)-A town sf Russian Po-
land. eighty-two miles by rail southwest
Of Warsaw and sixty miles from the
Posen boundaries. Chiefly owing to a
immigration Of German cap
italists and workers. Lodz has grown
with American-like rapidly. 1t consists
of one main street seven miles
long. 1t has a population OF about 10000.
The city manufactures cOttons. woOlens,
chemicals. beer, machinery and silk.
''Kholm polish Chelm)-A town OF
Russian Poland. forty-five miles by rail
east of southeast of the town OF Lublin,
fifty miles north of Austrian Galicia, and
ten miles west of the Bug River. 1t is
one of POland's oldest cities. Its present
population is about 1000.
''Heilsberg-An East Prussian town, at
the junction Of the Simser and Allie,
miles south OF KOenigsberg.
and twenty-five miles north OF Allen
stein. Its population is about 1000 and
It's principal industries are tanning. dye
nR and brewing. On June 10. 1907, a bat