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Show APPALLING DEFEAT : DEALT AUSTR1ANS t 01 LACT OBSTACLE TO ADVANCE OF &t! RUSSIANS TOWARD BERLIN al HAS BEEN REMOVED. gfcAustrians Reported to Have Lost Countless Thousands in Dead and ud Wounded and More Than lit 30,000 Prisoners. Sis According to a dispatch from Potro-pgrad, Potro-pgrad, Russia, to the London Daily STeIegraph, a final appalling defeat was administered to the Austrian army by the Russians on Wednesday epat RawajRuska, thirty-two miles no: th-jwest th-jwest of Lemberg, with the result that jthe last obstacle to the Russian advance ad-vance toward Berlin, now that Prze-"mysl Prze-"mysl and Jaroslow are completely invested, in-vested, has been removed. What is probably most important is . the demoralization of the Austrian "'army which is now in a desperate situation. sit-uation. Disheartened by constant de-'T de-'T .feats and suffering from defection of 'e,'the various nationalities of which it is ...composed, mutiny now has added its stTdestructive influence and the desertions deser-tions are many. Pestilence is spread-ming spread-ming through the ranks and numerous Jeaths from diseases are reported. In the big battles at Lemberg, Hal-Xiiez Hal-Xiiez and Rawa-Rusksa, the Austrians .ave lost countless thousands in dead md wounded and more than 30,000 mprisoners, besides suffering the loss of edi major portion of their artillery and hiquipment. Many of the Austrian prisoners wrought to the Russian capital were odged in the upper stories of the raibandoned German and Austrian em- assies. Among them were a number anf Slav prisoners who declared that lerhey had been fighting -with the Aus-tcrians Aus-tcrians against their will, and that they in-iave been placed In the front ranks nem the battlefields and made to bear Dnie brunt of the fighting. |