The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-10-01
latter ADVANCING
RAPIDLY IN GALICIA
Muscovites in Possession Of all
Railroad Lines in District
Of PrzenysI.

trograd received by the Exchange
Telegraph company say fierce bat
tie between the army of General Rem
nenkampf and that of the German
| General Won Hindenburg has been
| raging since Sunday morning along a
front extending from Grodno to Drus-
keniki, on the Niemen river. -Four
army corps have been engaged on
| both sides and the Russians are be-
| ing reinforced constantly from Wilma.
The advices say the Russians already
have repulsed the Germans at sew
eral points.
The Rome correspondent of the Elk
change Telegraph company wires that
a message from Vienna, dwelling on
the situation in Galicia, says the Rus
SLAMS are in possession of all the rail-
way lines in the district of Przemysl
and that the Russians are advancing
rapidly in two lines.
The northern Russian column is
said to have made an assault on Tar
now, the last obstacle between it and
Cracow.
Would Cut OF Retreat.
The southern column, which appar
emily is following the railway line be-
tween Przemysl and Cracow, after &C.
cupying Sanok has advanced west
ward with the intention of cutting off
the retreat in that section of the Aus
TRAN army which is being driven
southwark
The Exchange Telegraph CORE
spondent says indications are that
the Russians do not intend to capture
Cracow, but to leave it cut off and
then advance toward Breslau, hoping
to make junction with the Russian
center now in Poland.
An official communication issued in
Petrograd says that in the region of
Ossowetz and Druskeniki on Sept. 20
the Russians attacked the Germans
furiously and the new attempt by
the Germans to cross the Neimen
failed. Russian troops occupy these
towns. In Galicia, the official state
ment says, the Austrian rear guard
has suffered another defeat, abandon.
ing their cannon and 400 wagons. In
the region of Krosno, Galicia, the Rus
SLAMS say they have taken 200 prison
ers belonging to twenty-five different
regiments.
Many March Through silesia.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Reuter- agency says the Germans are
fortifying and entrenching the heights
south of the government of Kielce, in
Russian Poland, which command the
Galician and Silesian frontiers, ap-
parently to cover German advance
through Silesia to aid the Austrians in
the defense of Cracow. 1t is said
most of these troops belong to the
landstrum. Heavy fighting in that
region is expected soon. The Doggy
ground is said to make the movement
of the German heavy artillery diff
cult.
The Rome correspondent of the
Exchange Telegraph company says it
is announced officially in Vienna that
a junction has been effected between
the new German army and the rem.
nants of the Austrian army which
fought in the Galician battles The
combined army is reported to be tax.
ing up position along the Carpa.
Northumberland front and is al.
ready in contact with the Russians.
Russian official advices reiterate
that Przemysl is surrounded, but they
do not confirm the reported fall OF
the fortress. A dispatch from Petro
grad to the Havas agency says tina.
the Kurds, melted by the authorities
have attacked the Persian population
near the frontier.