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Show AUSTRIAN PEOPLE ARE DEPRESSED Any Report Half Way Encouraging En-couraging Eagerly Welcomed Wel-comed in City of Vienna. Vienna. Monday, Sept. 14. 10 a. m , via Paris, Sept. 15. 11 a m. The news of Russia's increasingly victorious victori-ous occupation of eastern Gallcla is exercising a depressing Influence In Austro Hungarian official circles ana among the more intelligent classes of the monarchy, but up to the present time, the mass of the people seem credulously willing to accept as satisfactory sat-isfactory the meagre official bulletins given out by the authorities. They welcome eagerly and report which seems half way encourazlng That anxiety is felt In higher circles, cir-cles, however, Is manifested by the audiences the ministers of the dual monarchy are holding constantly ar Schoenbrunn with Emperor Francis Joseph Last Saturday the emperor received Count von Berchtold, the minister of foreign affairs both in the morning and afternoon; there have been also a number of conferences since last Friday with the minister of war and the Austrian and Hungarian premiers. The newspapers of Vienna maintain an extraordinary reserve concerning the progress of the campaigns In Gallcla and on the Servian frontier Papers of Sunday, September Wi barely mentioned the battle that Is reported to have been raging around Lemberg for the last six days. The only Journal offering any comment on the Lemberg situation was the Neue Frele Presse which said "We can say nothing more than that the high moral quality of the Austrian Aus-trian and Hungarian troops must eventually prove victorious." A telegram received In Vienna from Budapest quotes the Hungarian minister min-ister of national defense as saying: We stand well Our position everywhere every-where is good; more than this, I can not say. ' The frequent optimistic public utterances utter-ances of Count Stephen Tisza, the Hungarian premier, latterly have ceat-ed ceat-ed and the official bulletins given out in Budapest are silent regarding the campaign against Servia. |