Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-03
Is SURPRISED.
prxsmSsls Fall Not Expected by Con,
mandars Of Allias In Nest.

-prxsmSsrs Fall Not Expected by Com.
mandsrs Of Allies in West.
London, June AFTER siege Of
fierce fighting the fortress Of Przemysl.
in Galicia, has fallen to the Austrians.
The Russians were in possession lit
tie over seventy days.
This news was received in London
with certain degree OF surprise. While
1t had well known that the Russian
position at Prsemysl was serious and
that tho fire Of the Germanic ally was
daily becoming more terrific. tho am
nouncement of ~ Austrian victory
MAS not expected so quickly. pafticu-
laFly III the view OF the OFFICIAL state
ment from Petrograd- Of last Monday.
foresaying the Austro- German grip
before Przemysl had been broken and
that the offensive In the great Galician
struggle had passed to the Russians.
Hammered With Heavy Guns.
The Austrians~ entered Przemysl at
lao o'clock this morning after a ham
mering with heavy guns that lasted
more than twenty days. The capitula-
tion OF Przemysl must be ascribed to
the effectiveness Of this artillery on
slaught. The occupation OF the FORT
ress by the Austrians will remove the
danger Of the Russian threat against
Cracow.
When the Russians starved out the
Austrian garrison at PrzeEnysl. an
operation which brought them into the
fortress on March %, they did It slow
,ly and systematically. conserving the
lives Of their men as much as possi-
have employed to accomplish the same
1loodieet Battles Of War.
Their expenditure in men and am
munition has perhaps outdone any
thing in this war. not even excepting
the German rushes from Calais, and
the terrible struggle along the User
river.
The retaining Of Przemysl fortress
already has been characterized by
British observers as one Of the most re-
markable feats Of the war. Inn
mediately after the surrender Of the
Austrian garrison the Russians be-
gan a westward rush thru Galicia and
1t was predestined that they would
soon overrun both Silesia and the
plains Of Hungary.
A<terrific Austro-German offensive
was inaugurated, however. the result
OF which was to drive the Russians
back to the San. and to enable the
Teutonic allies to encircle Przemysl
and attack 1t from the north and
southeast. The strength Of the Rus
sian garrison within the fortress has
not been known In Lcndon.
New Drive Toward WarsaW.
Another feature Of the fighting on
the western front was the new attack
,f Warsaw. Neither the Russians nor
British newspapers are able to say
whether the renewed /battering of the
Russian line between the Pilica and
the vistula Is q serious effort to break
thru to the Polish capital or move
.timed to prevent the Russians from
rush tsinforcements to their hard
dressed troops In Galfcia.
But watever the motive. the as-
sault has been violent and IN force
,Iong . front Of twenty Ave miles the
hardest present pressure being
brought to bear against the Russians
alonK the Bsdra and the Rawka rivers.
Aussians Abandon Guns.
When the Russians were forced to
abandon some Of the outer forts at
Prxemysl they had no time to destroy
the gunA which. on falling into \ the
Harcs cx the A.strc- Germans, were
turned ~ their new owners against
the inner Notifications, says dis
1spatch TO the Exchange Telegraph Conn
pany from Copenhagen. It Is under
stood tho dispatch adds that the Aus
trdaM r1ilWsy officials, the police and
municipal Officers and others who
ded from Prsemysl when the fortress
eapitulAAed to the Russians, have now
xathefed At Cracow ready to, returnto