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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
7
London report notes Lord Kirchner and staff accelerating the Second British Army to prepare rapidly for action. It cites 70,000 Austrian prisoners and 70,000 Russian captives in Galicia as part of the ongoing war developments.
Paris builds a new outer fortification ring about ten miles from the city walls and some one hundred miles in circumference. Observers on Estril Tower report the enemy movements and the belief that German shells must breach this ring to reach the capital.
Russian cavalry pursued the retreating Austrians from Lemberg, inflicting terrible slaughters and taking many prisoners as they abandoned guns in a disorderly retreat.
In a large battle the Cossacks rolled forward under their horses girths after the Austrians dismounted and fired. Believing the riders were dead the Austrians escaped on runaway mounts, but the Cossacks remounted and returned to slash at the Austrians, killing several in a fierce melee.
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