Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-09-03 | Page 1 | Russians Win Great Battle in Galicia

r lis teize the Fortifications Around Lemberg After Seven Days' Fight and Crush the Mam Austrian Aus-trian Armies Resisting the Advance. vOADS STREWN WITH ARTILLERY leemg Soldiers Abandon Aban-don Heavy and Light Guns, Parks of Cannon, Can-non, Field Kitchens, Loads of Provisions and Supplies. LONDON Spt 3 4 09 p m A Pet ograd (St Petersburg) spe iarto the Eenter Telegram romp-i , gays that tie g rrkon at "Koenigsberg east Prussia, has made an unsuccessful a tempt at a Eortle PtTKO&ItAD (ST PETERSBURG) . pt 2 The following olfic al eon je cat on iv as a ued b the Pus an u office ton pi t ' After a battle last n seen dajs e P s an army se red hea ly fertl tl f os t ons a ound I en berg cav tal Gal c a in Austr a Hungary about B p of t vcl e o les fron the to vn t Bu an troops then advanced to 1 tl e "pr nc pal forts a iter the battle yesterdaj yil ch iS 0 celj contested the Austr ans ne oblige 1 to retreat in d sorder a don ng hea y and 1 ght guns parks i art lleiy an 1 field k tchens Our carairy pursued the enemy 0 suffered enorn ous losses in killed .nuniled an 1 pr soncrs The A sir an army operat ng n P ne ghbo hood f Leinberg was eon ii of the thirl ele enth aud lHh corps and jart of the so enth 1 fourteenth corps Th s ar y ap rs to hae bee conpletelv defeated Our ng the nrsu t by the Buss an 0 b the Austr ans vho beat a retreat j Ou la L pa were forced to 3 ndon an add t onal th rty ono guns troops are no ing over roads en bere 1 w th parks of art llery and ojs loaded ruth pro vis ons of ious 1 inds 'The total number of guns captured the Euss ans around Lemberg ts to 150 he above dstatch vas sent d rect m Petrograd by the St Petersburg graph ogenc the sen i official R s n liens agoncj n 1 t s the first; pat h rece el n New xort d rect n the E S3 an cap tal s nee the larat on of war -nlerK a own of Aus rla Hungarj l al of Ca o a li n a beau ful and ro n o d rlct 16S ml es no thea t ot ina in old a la t been leveed con erted nto va ks and though Jed i (he th rteenth century It ha he appcaran e of a modern town It fc seat of a Roman Catholic an A nan and a Lnl ed Greek archbishop bu d ngs most deser ng of notice Greek n etropolltan h rch -nlth 1 archb s ops pa a e magn flcent nflt ctu.r?l ln tne lta an "tyle the Ro lfl-n catho lo and Armen an cathedra s IJom nlcan ch rch after the model of .peters at Romo the Protestant Tt;" a handsome sjnagogne one of era t e town ha 1 bul t on an In nng tea e the un versltj the po tech ns tu on (completed In IS Os 1 tonal Institute nlth a library 0 er 100 000 vo umes re atlns moBtty ia ic 1 story and literature and nu Tous coUect ons of paintings engrav Co ns antlciu ties, etc and the the there are arlous tem nartes and g-im fa an academy of arts deaf and dumb 1 ute t. general inf rmary (Invallden P) aslum ml Itary and other hosp Pen ent arj extens e barracks et e tv as a botan c garden j S H ,. had an attendance n .1. lts 1 brarv has about ISO volumes 'he manufactures cons t of machiner . s ..and " wo en and cotton tls coaTe 80ods liquors tobacco and he trade of Lcmburg la largely ln the s (Continued on Pago Seven.) AUSTRIAN ARMY IS CRUSHED BY RUSSIAN FORCE Invading Cossacks Invest Lemberg and Secure Complete Control of Eastern Gahcia (Continued from Page One hands of the Jews who const tute about one fourth of the population A great f a r is led in midwinter Lemberg is an important mill ary sta tlon and an nfan ry cadet schoo was located the e n 1899 There 9 a new c t ade It fe to Austr a in tl e pa 1 1 on of Po a d n 1 2 Popu at on in 1870 8 109 in 1890 1 8 419 n 1900 159 618