Show mm STANISLAU TAKEN fROM RUSSIANS RUSSIANS' f TEUTONIC ALLIES SUCCESSFUL r IN SPITE OF DESPERATE DEFENSE DEt DE DE- t OF MUSCOVITES Austrians Win Preliminary Victory in fi First Important Action With Italians Austrians Austrians Drop I Bombs on Venice J I. I The investment of Lemberg Is nearing near near- near near- t c ing completion according to dispatches dispatch dispatch- X es from from Berlin and Vienna Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night and the Russians are reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to be preparing to evacuate y r th the city Terrific fighting in which f huge Luge numbers are are engaged continues along the entire Galician front with the Teutonic allies e everywhere successful successful successful suc suc- suc- suc despite violent violet Russian coun coun- ter The German Austro-German right wing has lias stormed and captured Stanislau the most Important railway center in southeastern Galicia and has cut the i 1 communications of the Russian forces n operating north of with t those around Lemberg f Stanislau has been in the possession possession posses- posses sion slon of the Russians with the exception exception tion of a few days since last November No No- J vember Its fall is believed in Berlin to mark the collapse of the entire Russian Russian Rus Rus- lp sian slim campaign in southeast Galicia y The first important action between the Italians and arid the Austrians wl which ich is now in progress along the Isonzo i near Gorizia has resulted In a preliminary preliminary prelim prelim- inary mary victory for the Austrians ac 4 cording to a war office report from Vienna It ht Is said that the Italians after suffering severe losses retreated under the Austrian artillery fire and abandoned several guns Similar sue sec ar are claimed further south on the line near and Monral- Monral cone one 7 v German tr troops ops were encountered by bythe the Italians for the first time in the fighting at Lavaron according to information information in in- i formation re received here Two Austrian aeroplanes flew fiew over Venice Thursday morning and dropped bombs bomis killing one person and injuring injuring InjurIng ing several The presence of the aeroplanes aero aero- i planes was signalled promptly and they at once became the object of a t concentrated fire from anti-airship anti guns |