Show I CRUSH AUSTRIAN J ARMY RUSSIANS CLAIM VICTORY 1 1 IS GREATEST OF ALL ALLi i BATTLES TILES IN itt HISTORY i f i B By United Press r PJ PETROGRAD TROG OG AD Sept 16 According According t to o o officials c here the defeat of the huge Austrian army in G Galicia marks luarks t the greatest neatest military achievement in the history of all alII vadare These officials ls say say- that the rout o of f the Austrians ISho is thorough ho ough and avd complete and that little hope remains for forthe or orthe the escape o of f the forces which have bave r been scattered in ill all directions General Dankl's Austrian aim army is is now entirely cut b rf ff from the center and is unable to reach which t was his bis goal for an defense The Russians now invest 3 completely Dankl was vas routed looted in a bog hog and in u the o ver very 3 r trap he bad had set for the Russian forces He had expected to draw the soldiers of the czari czar i into t this his morass but instead became hopelessly himself and his forces were almost annihilated under the withering Dithering cross fire file of the Russians that sur surrounded him r It is reported that Archduke Karl Franz is with t thIS forcel force l y If this is true he lie is doomed to capture f r there is little Tittle hope for any of the stragglers to escape escale Kaiser Goes to Fight Czars Czar's Armies By United Press P PARIS AllIS Sept 16 It 1 It t is reported here that the kaiser is satisfied with th the thc present p position of his aJ armies ies in the thc west and confident that in their new positions they will be able to successfully drawback draw draw- back to p prepared positions on the German frontier line As a result result- he has det determined d to give his personal attention to the c campaign in the thc east cast and aud administer ter fter a crushing defeat to the t t. t inv invading ding Russians so that the thc czars czar's declaration of or entering Berlin wit be ic snuffed for all time ft f li il k b JbV r c nit t t ll a pr pi esen n Gc Geln iman J o i iti M. M s are r strong strong trong m mono inT Fr France nce nce and that conditions for defensive o operations orations l' l v fJ r arc ait ideal Idea 1 J 4 I Vienna Denies Dankl Has S Surrendered By Dr United Press Pres I VIENNA via Rome 16 The 16 The Thc office here bere Sept war emphatically f i denies deifies that thai General Dankl's Austrian army armr has surrendered to the Russians It Jt t is s' s the Russians succeeded in surrounding the army J but that Dankl succeeded in ill cutting his way out with brilliant valor alor and has lias joined the main Austrian forces The government admits that the Austrian losses have been en terrific terI terrific ter- ter I but Jut it is denied that the Russians have occupied Berlin Reports Russian Repulses i By lb United Press BERLIN via Hague Sept 16 The Tho Tho Russians are arc bein continually repulsed in the east and the tho Germans may soon lOon invade Russian Po Poland anti General is attacking tho the Russian communications on tho line of the cast ast bank of the Vistula river i t By Bv this move mo he be hopes to ta force the tho Rus Russians to withdraw from Galicia I Road to Budapest 0 Open pen for Russians By Associated Press LONDON DO Sept 10 W 11 1122 2 3 a. a m. m m. Thc Thc Petro Petrograd rad correspondent of the Exchange Ex Ex- change chan o Telegraph company compan quotes the military critic as us saying i that nU s vie victory vietor or durin during the la last t week over o three Austrian armies on the line from the auto to the leaves the thc road to Budapest along the northern north- north K ern cm base haze o of tho the Gar Carpathian completely open The first period of the war on tho western frontier he adds thus ends RUSSIANS SAY AUSTRIANS HAVE LOST MEN J By Jh y Associated Press Sept l The Tho Tho following following follow follow- in ing summary of the fighting in int inI t I Galicia from front the Russian point of view has lias be been n ma made c public in iu Potro Petrograd rad k th through semiofficial channels channel 4 Russian troops arc pursuing tho the r Austrians with energy and tho the defeat of tho enemy continues continue Certain Certa n Austrian Austrian Aus trian arm army corps have been virtually I annihilated Ru Russian sian forces have ha passed the tho River San Thc The cast eastern ern Russian advance anco guard guardis art is OJ approaching J. J T The e rapidity with which military militar operations arc are b being being be be- in ing conducted hay has made it impossible to l determine ac accurately tho lo losses elt of the tho thoL L enemy but it nia may be he sai said that they t l' l are becoming c colossal According to such information as i has haa conic to huud hand tho the Austrians have c lost lost in tilt tho neighborhood of II S men mica in iu killed billed and wounded this in addi- addi 1 V r tion to 00 prisoners toO pieces of I r o and a num number er of j t An III all directions the roa roads s are aro crowded j tt ith rith artillery transport wa wagons and arms and ammunition which have hac been I I abandoned in in mass asS during lur n the tato tate r retreat of tho the enemy t. t U On On the r river cr Vistula Russian I i. i t troops have taken posseS possession uon of an anif if accumulation of material for brill bridge c fl I building n and aud t they C destroyed several t steamers one of w which ich Was rumored armored The desperate efforts of German troops to save the Austrian army from utter rout should be r recorded corded The rhe active ac ac- ac tive tivo participation of German army corps in the has been een revealed at several tc different places alon the thc Au Austrian front as ns for instance at Touro- Touro I bite bint T The o Russians captured six thirty pieces nieces of long ran range e German German artillery in addition to some somo German prisoners prisoner prisoners pris pris- oner at this point At other places on the front several dozen lar largo large o German guns uns many of which Las has been heen prevented pro pre vented bv by lack of time from bc being n 1 used in the fi fighting fell unto into their r i. i hands hand 1 lu In 1 conclusion ion this announcement of oft nUl Russian ian successes declares that the t succor sent by y Germany German slid did not nol save the tho Austrians Austrians' and that tho the heavy y defeat doI do de feat inflicted rl on tho the Germans hn has con con- I to tho the brilliancy y of the Russian I i I victories 3 RUSSIANS CAPTURE GUNS OF GERMANS PETROGRAD D. D Sept ept 15 16 j via Ia London lAndon 5 5 p. p m. m Among m-Among Among tho the guns uns taken from the tho Austrians by the Russians In Galicia are more than thirty six heavy vy German ermon cannon bearing bearing- the Initials of ot Emperor William These SC came from rom tho the re regions ons occupied by Iry the sixth German Gp corps S. S More than German prisoners ard arrived arrived ar ar- d rived today at Lublin In Russian Po Po- land FRENCH ADMIT GERMANS HAVE STRONG DEFENSE By Associated Press PARIS Sept 16 p p. p m. m m. The The following following fol lal lowing official communication was made public hero to today During Dur n the days of the and the 1 of September the tho rear guards of at the enemy with which our pursuing forces were in contact were reinforced from the tho main main body of the German German army The The energy enemy is engaging in a defensive sivo sive battle battlo along their entire front on which certain of their positions position show strong tron or organization n I This front is bounded by the re region on of Noyon oyon tho the plains to tho the north of Vic Vic Vic-sur-Aisne sur-Aisne sur and anel Soissons Laon the J hC heights to the north and to tho west veat of and a line which runs thence to I the north of Ville sur sur to tho the west of the Ar Argonne onno region and which i is continued thence beyond the Ar Argonne onne b by another line which paS passes es north of n a point that has hns been boon evacuated atel by tho the enemy an and reaches the tho river Meuse in tho the nci neighborhood h of the tho forest o of Forges which h is north of V Ver cr- cr dunc dun c Duran During tho the pursuit of the enemy executed by y r our troops after tho the battlo battle of the tho Marno Marne tho Germans abandoned numerous prisoners to our hands To these men there has boon hoeu added a largo multitude of stragglers who wore were hid den in the forests No 4 No exact accounting of these prisoners prisoners pris oner or of or the gar ar material captured h by u UP us so o far has bas been po possible It t is f for r this reason that the minister ol of olwar war who does not want to give ive out fi fig figures fig fig- ores ures which glitch might bt be he considered fan refrains from announcing the details de do tails of these ca captures |