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Show AUSTRIANS FALL , BEFORE SERVIANS Venice. Sept. 17, 1:15 p. m, via Paris, 5:10 p. m Reports received here from trustworthy sources indicate indi-cate that the situation of the Aus trian troops in Galicla is most precarious. pre-carious. During the fighting along the Servian Ser-vian frontier the Croatian regiments suffered enormous losses. Owing to their racial hatred of the Servians tbey were chosen to lead the first attack and, carried away by their en thusiasm, they did not wait for the support of their artillery' but rushed blindly against the Servians, running instead of crawling across the field As a consequence they fell in masses before the Servian fire. Around Lemberg, the capital oi Galicia, the Austrian infantry sustained sustain-ed terrible losses because the artillery waa caught In the marshes. The ar tillerymen stood for seeral hours in water and arrived at the scene of the fighting too late to afford the necessary neces-sary support for the infantry. It Is also asserted here that the Austrian artillery decimated three ot their own infantry regiments whom they mistook for Russians because or a similarity in the uniforms Wounded to the number of 2900 arrived in Vienna Tuesday. As evidence evi-dence of the gallantry of the Austrl an soldiers it is declared that all the wounds are on the front of the body Accordingly it Is announced that the government order forbidding persons, to give information regarding wounded wound-ed soldiers has been cancelled The public Is now freely admitted to the hospitals, indicating that the authorities authori-ties do not fear to let the people know what has happened. |