Show APPALLING DEFECT DEFEAT DEFEAT I 1 DEALT AUSTRIANS LAST OBSTACLE TO ADVANCE OF RUSSIANS TOWARD BERLIN HAS BEEN REMOVED Austrians Austrian Reported to Have Lost Countless Thousands In Dead and Wounded and More Than Prisoners According to a dispatch from Petrograd Petrograd petrograd Petro- Petro grad Russia to the London Daily Dally Telegraph a final appalling defeat was administered d to the Austrian arm army by the Russians on Wednesday at Ruska Rawa-Ruska two thirty miles mites northwest northwest north north- west of Lemberg with the result that the last obstacle to the Russian advance advance advance ad ad- vance toward D Berlin now that and Jaroslow are arc completely Invested invested in in- vested ested has been removed remo What Is probably most Important Is the demoralization of the Austrian arm army which is now In a desperate sit sit- Disheartened by constant d defeats de do- feats and suffering from defection of the various nationalities of which It is composed mutiny now has added its destructive Influence and the time desertions desertions deser deser- are man many Pestilence Is spreading spreading spread spread- ing through the ranks and numerous deaths from diseases are reported I In the bl big battles s at Lemberg Hallez Hal Hal- Ie lez iez and Rawa the Austrians have lost countless thousands in dead and wounded and more than prisoners besides suffering the loss of ofa ofa ofa a major portion of their artillery and equipment t. t Many of the Austrian prisoners brought to the Russian capital were I lodged In the upper stories of th the i abandoned German and Austrian embassies em Among them were a number of Slav prisoners who declared that the they had been fighting with the Austrians Austrians Aus Aus- i against th their ir will and that they i have been placed In the front ranks on the battlefields and made to bear the brunt of the time fighting |