Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-03

by the United Press.
VIENNA, via Berlin, wireless June
3.-Przemysl fell before The triumph-
ant armies OF General MaclSensen at
$3.50 a. m. today, after a three weeks
siege.
Many prisoners, cannon and ma
chine guns and large supplies of food
and war munitions were captured by
the Austro- German armies. The main
body of the Russian army is reported
to be retreating in disorder eastward
along the railway leading TO Lem
berg. IS.
terrific bombardment by Austrian
and German howitzers and a2-centi-
meter guns broke the northern forts
| to pieces. Large bodies of Austro-
German troops rushed into the gaps
! dripingthe enemy back through tha
town. German cavalry is harrassing
! the Slavs, who are retiring upon en-
trenchments in the vicinity of Mo-
sciska.
Victory of Great Importance.
Capture of the great Galician for
tress gives Mackensen undisputed
control of the Jaroslau-Przemysl
railway for forty miles to a point
south of Przemysl. The railway runs
parallel to the new battle front tho
Russians are now attempting to form
behind Przemysl, and is of immense
strategic value. 1t enables the Aus
tro-Germans suddenly to concentrate
large bodies for heavy smashes at the
Russians in the direction of Lem-
berg.
III. 81, r.; aft
had no estimate of the number OF
Russian prisoners taken nor of the
losses on either side. 1t was admitted
that Mackensen's forces lost heavily
in attacking the outer forts. But the
enemy's losses are reported to be apr'
palling. -
The great Austro-Hungarian fortS
ress of Przemysl, situated between
Lemberg and Cracow, in the provt
ince of Galicia, was captured by the
Russians on March % last after one
of the longest sieges of modern wars
fare. In the ten weeks which have
elapsed since that time, however, the
Austrians and Germans have mad6
every effort to retake the fortress,
large forces being diverted for this
purpose from the other great fortress
to the west, Cracow. -
Recent dispatches from the Galician
front were to the effect that the AUS
tro-German troops had been success
full in their operations to the north
and the southeast of the fortress and
that the forts girdling the position
had been taken.
When Przemysl fell into the
hands of the Russians it had under-
gone n siege lasting POI days. The
Austrian garrison originally consisted
of 10000 men, of whom 10000 were
killed. About 100000 Austrians sur
rendered when the fortress capitur
lated. These included 2,6o2 officers
and officials and 117,000 men.
BY the United Press.
BERLIN, via wireless to London,
June 3.--The German war office this
| afternoon confirmed the Austrian otfi-
cial claim that Przemysi has BEEN
| captured.
I'VE took Przemysl today, after this
northern Notifications had been
stormed during the night said the
! official statement.
By the Associated Press.
| AMSTERDAM, June 3, via Lon
| don, 1851 p. m.-The correspondent
/. of the Berlin Tageblatt, who ais
attached to Austrian headquarters,
| telegraphing some hours before the
fall of Przemysl, predicted that with
! the reduction of three permanent
works to the north of the fortress, the
stronghold could not hold out.
He declares as a fact what has been
| reported from other sources, namely,
| that the Russians, after rushing rein.
| forcements and supplies into the
| fortress over the Lemberg railroad,
reversed this procedure when the rail-
road came under the Austro-German
fire. and began hurriedly to remove
! men and provisions.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 3, 1886 p. m.-Whsn
the Russians were forced to abandon
some of the outer Przemysl forts they
had no time to destroy the guns
which, on falling into Austro-German
hands, were turned by their new own
ers against the inner fortifications,
saws a dispatch to the Exchanges
Telegraph Company from copen-
| hagen.
1t is understood, the dispatch adds,
that the Austrian railway officials. the
police and municipal officers and 9TH
ers who fled from Przemysl when the
] fortress capitulated to the Russians
! have now gathered at Cracow, ready
to return to the recaptured city.