The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-03-23
BIG VICTORY FOR
FORCES OF GEAR
Russians, After a Most Stub
born Campaign, Are Suc=
cessful.
FORMERLY 10000 MEN THERE
That Number Was Stationed at
Garrison of PrzemysI, but
Sorties and Shells Have Re-
duced Them.
FORMERLY 10000 MEN THERE

LONDON, March 22.-The great Ga
Austrians had so staunchly defended
since the early days of the war, fell
into the hands of the Russian Besieg-
ers this morning.
The last of the improvi2ed field for
tifications were captured some days
ago and the final act of the drama be-
gan toward the close of last week.
when the commandant deliI erately eX-
pended his reserve ammunition and
sent the bulk of the garris n out in
the forlOrn hope of cutting it's way
eastward through the besiegc S.
With the strong Russian Ae tigh-
ly drawn. around the fortres3 the
effort apparently was hopeless from
the start and 5000 Austrian pr ners
fell into the hands of the Rus ianS,
while as many more fell dead or
wounded. The shattered remnants of
the force fled back to the fortress and
they have now fallen into the hands
of the Russians.
The garrison of Przemys1 originally
numbered 10000 or $4,000 men, but
sorties and shells must have cut a
, considerable number of thousands
J from that total.
The besieging army is understood
men. This force will now march on
the strong Austrian fortress of Cra-
COW, 125 miles to the east of Przemysl,
it being the announced determine
ton of the Russian commander-in-
chief to reduce the ancient Polish
capital as speedily as possible.
A Te Deum of thanksgiving was
celebrated at Russian army head
quarters when the fall of Przemysl
was announced. Emperor Nicholas,
Grand Duke Nicholas and the mem
bers of the general staff participated
in the ceremony.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Petrograd says great enthusiasm
was manifest there on receipt of the
news Crowds thronged the streets,
cheering and indulging in patriotic
demonstration.
The fortress was occupied by Rus
sian, troops Immediately.
Simultaneous offensives against the
German, Austrian and Turkish armies
from the Baltic to the Black sea have
been undertaken by the Russians, and
in some sections definite progress is
reported In the extreme north the
Germans are retreating from Memel,
East Prussia, and the Russians are
believed to have begun another drive
at Tilsit.
In Poland there is activity all
along the front, but apparently the
general battle which Petrograd ex-
poets has not begun.
The Russian army in the Caucasus
announces a victory over the Turks
in fighting along the Black sea coast,
Turkish Armenia.
After several months of inactivity,
hostilities have been resumed between
Austria an1 Montenegro, A Cettinje
dispatch says 'e Austrians made an
artillery ftac lasting several days,
against ---dontenegrin position all
alongA ? front, but that efforts to
follow tnis with infantry advances
were defeated. An artillery battle
between Austrians and Seryians also
is reported.
On the western front no large
movements are under way
Two Russian successes at the ex-
tremities of 600-mile front are re-
ported today from Petrograd and
these seem to mark the only opera
tions of importance in either arena
of the war.
The seaport of Memel, on the
Baltic in East Prussia, is definitely in
the hands of the Russians. but the
place is of little strategic importance
as it is surrounded by swamps, which
in view of the breakup of winter
make impossible any further advance
from that direction. The Memel
movement does, however, take the in
vaders into a part of East Prussia
hitherto free from invasion and it
may De for this reason have some po-