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Show tt Ifj RAPID RETREAT FifHSI Desperate Engagements Being Be-ing Fought in Galicia Between Be-tween Przemysl and the Vistula. j REPORT ISSUED BY j THE RUSSIAN STAFF Statements From Vienna j and Berlin Also Claim ; Victories and Tell of Taking Prisoners, LOKDON, Oct. 23, Sri 5 a. EL j Emperor WUUam and the German headquarters staff have retreated from Czenstocho-w, In Busslan Poland, Po-land, close to the Silesia frontier, Into Silesia, according to a dispatch from Warsaw, via Petrograd, to the Daily News. PETROGRAD, Oct. 22. 4 'The rapid retreat of the Germans from Warsaw continues," says the official communication commu-nication issued by general headquarters tonight. "The bombardment by the enemy's heavy artillery has caused no, essential damage to the fortifications of Ivangorod or the bridges. "In Galicia desperate engagements are still being fought. During the advance ad-vance in the region between Przemysl and the Vistula we captured more than thirty officers, 2000 soldiers and many rapid-fire guns. To the south of Przemysl the Russian operations are developing also with success." Vienna Report. LONDON", Oct. 23, 10:40 p. m. "It is officially announced from Vienna that the fighting in middle Galicia has become still more vohement, " says a Berlin dispatch received here tonight by the Marconi Wireless company. "The Austro-Germnn forces are gaining gain-ing ground, and all Russian attempts to recapture the Magiera heights have been in vain. "Our troops have carried the important im-portant heights of Baumhoche northwest north-west of Tysz.kowice. Many Russians have been made prisoners, among them a Russian general. Machine guns have also been captured. The prisoners do-, do-, scribe the effect of our artillery fire as awful. "To the south of the river Strwiaz, , no further developments have taken place. We have retaken Koeroessezoe and Sereth' ! May Be Turning Point. LONDON, Oct. 23, 2:03 a. m. "The latest Russian success cannot be described de-scribed as a decisive blow, but it may easily prove to be the turning- point In the hostilities," the Petrosrad correspondent corre-spondent of the Dally Teleeiaph says. "Jt is clear that the German advance toward the Vistula coincided with the virtual completion of the Russian corporations for carrying the war definitely into the enemy's country. "By pursuing the retreating- Germans the Russians will be not merely following; up a local success, but takinjr the first step in the execution of a prearranged plan for which the necessary degree of preparedness lias only recently been attained. at-tained. "The participation of Siberian troops In the operations shows that Russia has concentrated at the front her best forces from the most distant portions of the empire, and it may now be expected that the operations will take the form of a steady Russian advance right along the line." Claim Gains. LONDON, Oct. 22, 10:30 a, rn.-An official statement given out at noon Wednesday at the Austrian headquarters, headquar-ters, regarding the fighting in Galicia, is contained in a dispatch to Renter's Telegram company from Vienna by way of Amsterdam. It says: "We have gained ground in several snots in a heavy, stubborn attack on the fortified positions of the enemv from Plotzyrt to the high road east of Medyka, while the Russian counter attack at-tack could nowhere penetrate. "Last night our troops captured the heights north of Nizankowice, whii'h followed the capture of the villages located lo-cated against the heights. In the southern south-ern wing the main battle was fought by artillery. The modern field fortification fortifica-tion system being liberally applied, the (Continued on Page Two.) i RAPID RETREAT OF Mil COMES (Continued from Page One.) i battle takes greatly the el.araoter of a fort r.ss wa r. Vesierilav we raptured m the ( ar-natliians ar-natliians the Cablonki pass, the last point held there hv the Russians. There h now no enernv left on Hungarian soil. ' In P.uliowin'a we advanced as tar as the great Sereth. ' ' Determined Fighting. PARIS. Oct. 22, 11 a. m. "The Russian Rus-sian troops are nianifeotiiiK creat ' nue and enerirv in the defense of ' w. manv times successfully repulsing heavv attacks and at the same tune establishing more firmly the union ot Pole and Slav, says a Havas Agency dispatch from Petrograd. i "Intercepted documents show that , the Germans expected to capture Warsaw War-saw some time between October Jo and 17. , , , "The Siberian regiments brought up from the Praga district of Warsaw received re-ceived a great ovation from tue populace, popu-lace, and distinguished themselves in night attacks in the forest ot MotchU-dovsk, MotchU-dovsk, taking manv prisoners. the tVhtin" in this district has been determined. deter-mined. The heaviest fighting is now at a point south of Przemysl.- Wireless Account. XKW YORK. Oct. 22. The Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian consulate issued today the following statement, received by Dr. Konstantin Diunba, the Austro-Hongar-ian embassador to the United btates, from the foreign secretary at ienna: " According to official statements dated the lSth instant, our offensive in several victorious engagements reacted the line of the San hnghts. east to the Przemvsl heights, west of Sambor. Prycniv l, which has withstood and repulsed' re-pulsed' a heavv siege by the Russians, is relieved. .Hungary is free of Russians. Rus-sians. J'or three davs our troops have been attacking the Russians, wno resist on the above-named line. 'In Rue-ian Poland strong German forces, together with Austro-Hungarian forces.' advanced up to the Vistula line and the mouth of tne San river to Warsaw War-saw and south of Warsaw. Kepnlsed eight Russian armv corps. "No news from the Serrian -and Montenegrin Mon-tenegrin war theater." Germans Abandon Works. WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. A cablegram cable-gram from the French foreign office made public tonight by the French ein-bassv ein-bassv here said: "The German! before Warsaw have abandoned their defenjivs position and ar in retreat, pursued br the Russians, who have captured manv prisoners and .:.,. Tho Seventeenth and Twi-.uetli Gerrr.sn armv corps have been der imated. ' ' l,nf)0,n00 Reinforcements. I.nlMN. i-t. 22. 4:""' p. m. A dis- pat. 'r, to ii..- Fxrhange Te'egra h com-I com-I anv from ret-ocra.. v it i semi-j ,.!' , ia!!v . '.Med Dial the number of j inr:r.:m Poi -"it to the eastern audi w-st."n I't-ateri of t'le war since the mnidir of .-eptcmber is 1 .iV..'V". Ti e .iirat.-h tate that the xrort ,, ;ii,v vi ,r,''i froni Germanv is pro-li.tnt-'l. and that this may seriously a :!'. t Sim:, eil-iud. which heretof-r re-"iit"d i otat ies from Germany. (Jermans Pursued. J l.nMnix. ii.-t. 22. T p. m. A d's-patch d's-patch to R, 'liter's Tdoirnm compar.v Trn'u li'iv-i' sai tin. further of.-ial 1 ; at, 'he- from I'elrt.grad Mate that, th" i,e-'va"i whtt are being pursued t,,. Piliva river left arms, am j munition and provisions in their i trer.-h.ii. |
