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Show PIMPS i'TROGRAD PIPE jilEHIGfiOE ,orts of Russian Victories . ljsly Exaggerated, Says Minister to the United 1 States. K YOKK, Sept. lS-Dr. Konstan-,V,lVa Konstan-,V,lVa Austrian minister to the I "tates, today issued the follow- J'mpelled to protest most em- Smt a-ainst the lalse reports sent Wirom Borne. Milan, Lopen-'"S Lopen-'"S PetrojiaJ about tho "campaign iu Russian Poland .ii,ia To quote some ot theso re-:' re-:' purpo'rtiaK t from oliclal The Austrians lost, since the bat--' ,( Lemberg, 350.000 dead and ; ,,1 and 101.1,000 prisoners.' 1 read credible lie at least twenty tunes ' ine But we hear that lmme- r afterward tho Austrian gen- Vankl and Auffenbera who had ,sat from Russian Poland suc- c 1 iu uniting and rallying for a Ut ' I do not think that any-Wed any-Wed with a little common 1 mn for one moment believe that ,t of 1,000,000, having lost 450,-;: 450,-;: ei, should be able immediately to for a new fight. jy Is Sarcastic. Kordins to official (?) Petro-ews Petro-ews the Austrians, while reced-id reced-id hotlv pursued to Lemberg, had ' , lost about 200,000 men. (There iardly auvbody left to tell the -The steel forts of the first-class ' of Nichailowsk had been si- t and stormed with incredible n bv the Eussiaos. (In reality iloKsk is a small village with 907 1 tents, where the Austrian troops : reeled provisional field trenches.) L.0Tt3 spoke of 500 Austrian field ' icd 1000 heavy guns captured, iiv knows the whereabouts of : Mythical 1000 heavy guns, as no :-ilD fortresses had been taken.) Vain: 'The backbone of the Ajis-imv Ajis-imv in Galicia was utterly brok-: brok-: kr the fall of Lemberg; it prac-i prac-i no longer existed, so that the id Cossacks had the choice be-,i be-,i rush to Budapest to join hands : the Serbs and the announced on-:; on-:; )t to Berlin via Breslau.' , (me days later we hear from ! I Hat the Austrian troops, made d stand in Grodek, southwest of :ttf. arid after a five days' battle :; 10,000 Russian prisoners and cap-- cap-- cianv.truns. etrograd cables that the 'two fiao generals, Dankl and Auffen-I- are entrapped betweeu the fortress Ifmsvl and Tracok and that their :,-er is shortly expected. (Evi-ti (Evi-ti f a reporter alone.) Austrian Side of It. 'i Aostro-Hnngarian troops had :: the beginning to wage in eastern la a defensive war against great f After repeated engagements they "Wk on their strong line of de-'under de-'under the protection of the first- -' fortress of Przemsvl. The advance r nortliern and central army to ' i and to the River Bug, although '-- y eheii:ed and repulsed, achieved Id to arrest the progress of a huge in army in the direction of Thoto Breslau and to relieve the enor-? enor-? .pressure brought to bear by Reu-.Ltopif's Reu-.Ltopif's army on two or three rID army corps left to defend east-Iftnia. east-Iftnia. (Here the Russian inva-fcentiy inva-fcentiy resulted in defeat and dis- fl to the central Russian army. , jibe fortress of Brest Litowsk to , jm, its onslaught on Silcwia and lis far from imminent, as the Po-" Po-" rritc.rv on the left bank of the ' la, 0''enpied by German troops, ' be first conquered, The only tan-;' tan-;' I result of the Russian victories 1 late! to the world with the clo-.' clo-.' of Mountebanks is the occupa-' occupa-' if eastern Galicia, a flat, open i'9 without any strategical posi- lnhich had to be given up to the - f, as everybody knew in Austria. 10 Russian Prisoners. :. ke generui staff of the dual mon-.-,on the other hand, announced i'fult of four weeks' lighting, the ,. of 41,000 Russian prisoners and . J guns, figures which prima facie . eolor of truth. , pc news coming, especially from V! (often in the shape of fictitious 1 "om Pctrograd), insist on . ""."reak of panic 'and prevalence ; yf in Vienna. Both tai-s are -,;' false and of pure fiction. ,te panic, there is not the slight-!n slight-!n tor it, and nobodv is fright-T fright-T 'he Cossacks, notwithstanding ,,turcs(l'ie und melodramatic ele-V. ele-V. " '"c reports of newspaper men '7-l to go t., the front. Condi-1 Condi-1 "' normal in the Austrian cap- "fVrl'pte'n b"'a' POra opeued on i J" 33 i:nn"" concerned, I ! Private letters that most prices i d llCT,os f (. after a short J "''11 to a normal level; but ... the foodstuffs lino eggs and iS?" cheaper on the impossibil-:'k' impossibil-:'k' ' ..'I'ortatiou. ' Ct ' "Oking. the most patriot.,,, patri-ot.,,, 'n5,,,ros whole nation; ;. nisui of classy and parties ,; J in.) jealousies of different teen? 'MPcd as if by en- - Fw,. "lolnlation in Aus-: Aus-: J with the sole exception !'k m i an, d'stricts. took place . P unhoimded enthusiasm of the "t no)' ,.,i, , "B0rv men even of ' 1h th.i 111 ""'Stored so much ' 'Mou0Wd.,1;ave taken the field ,1 or ii ' ninors or news of of tl ,sur,'011'ier of Slav regi-I regi-I disaf Z !hont,?K "f lav leaders : I'ous im l 0n of tho Socialists are '. Is anrl wU0ns-. The 50,000.000 '.'tfor th, 1"Rarmns wi" f'Kbt to for t Vex 1st!""'0 of thfiir CO"'" lor 'heir beloved emperor and |