The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-24
RUSSIANS CAPTURE
10000 AT PRZEMYSL
Harrison Refused TO Respond to Com
mander's Stirring Appeal for a
Grand Sortie.

LONDON, March 24.-The size of |
the garrison at Przemysl and the num-
Der of men who surrendered to the |
Russians greatly exceed all estimates |
According to dispatches received from
Petrograd the garrison originally con
sisted of 10000 men, of whom 40,00l
were killed. just under 10000 sur
rendered when the fortress capitulated
These included 1902 officers and Off
Gals and $4,000 men.
The following official communica-
ton was issued by the Russian general
staff:
1.-The commandant at Przemysl, Gen.
Won Kusmanek, accepted our demands
for an unconditional surrender of the
garrison. Our troops who entered the
fortress have taken possession of the
Notifications and begun to prepare
lists of the prisoners and to ascertain
the amount of artillery and war ma
| terial captured. -
| Owing TO the blizzard, which is in
terfering with the telegraphic service,
no details of the surrender are COM
| ing through. But Lemberg reports
| that for seven days prior to the fall
of the fortress the people of the town
| had nothing to eat, and the Russians
who took in large supplies of provls-
| lens were welcomed as liherators.
| Dispatches from the same place say
that $4,000 persons were found suffer
ing from typhus and cholera, and that
the work of disinfecting the place is
being undertaken energetically. The
interior forts, il is said, We're found
intact, with good deal of ammuni-
ton in them. It is reported from PEI
, rograd that 600 guns of the latest type
were found in the fortress.
- Four thousand prisoners, mostly
from Przemvsl. have arrived here,
saws Reuters Kiev. Russia. cores
pondent. They give 4 pitiable de
scTiption of the starving condition OF
= the garrison before the fall of the for
? tress Numbers Of the men, they say
were dropping from exhaustion, Will,
others had not sufficient strength I,
a leave the trenches. and ate moss an,
J. gnawcd at the straps of their equip
1 mcnt 10 keep themselves alive
: Everywhere in Europe. both in hcl
I igereut and neutral countries. TIA,
greatest credit is given TO the Aus
trians for their long and stubborn re-
sistance. which has greatly DELAYED am
interfered with the Russian campaign
y in other directions.
i Now that the Russians, whose mum
bers. like those of the Austrians
must have been greater than wa
T heretofore understood are TO louge
under obligation to invest this fortres
big movement either against Craco'
or in the CarpatEians Will doubtless b
inauCurated With their uorthcr
H. lines protected by the morass int
N which the greater part of Poland
- converted during the spring month
the Russians are expected ia throw a
~ their strength against the Austrian
1t and attempt finally to crush them.
u One British military critic goes
ar far as to stake his reputation on al
III prophesv that Cracow will fail with
III the next month, and that when II doc
or before. Austria will endeavor
IL conclude separate peace. He
ne more optimistic than the majority
ne military critics here, who are Of Il
as opinion that the Austrians and &c
- mans viii likewise make great G
n. fort in the southern field and attem
p to prevent the Russians frem eroSsH
the Carpathians or reaching Cracow.