Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — RUSSIANS TAKE CITY [ARTICLE]

RUSSIANS TAKE CITY

COSSACKS WIN ANOTHER VICTORY IN AUSTRIA. Czar's Cavalry Burn Buildings and Destroy Bridges at Sokal in Galicia. . St. Petersburg. Aug. 14. —Another victory by the Russian Cossacks in their invasion of the Austrian province of Galicia was announced by the war office. The czar’s cavalry crossed the border and after a series of skirmishes took the town of Sokal, one of the most northerly cities in Galicia, about ten miles across the line. The Austrian defending fqrce, which was put to rout, consisted of two battalions of infantry, a regiment of Lancers, a regiment of Hussars and part of a regiment of Dragoons. Sokal has 10,000 inhabitants and is 45 miles northeast of Lomberg. The Russians followed their victory by blowing up a number of buildings, destroying bridges and telegraph lines and capturing a large amount of Austrian war supplies., The official announcement of the series of Russian successes in Austria and Germany on August 10, JI and 12 was given out by the war office. It confirmed the three reported Russian victories over the Austrians at Zolotche, when they dislodged the Thirteenth Austrian Lancers; at Volonchizsk, when they killed 16 Austrians, and at Zgaraje, when their infantry defeated an Austrian force. The repulse of the German attack against the Polish border in the governments of Kovno and Suwalkl also was announced. A German detachment composed of more than four battalions, supported by 18 cannon and three squadrons, attacked Eydtkuhnen. but was repulsed. German troops are fortifying themselves near Kalicz. Kapespol and Sieradz and are destroying fords on the River Worth. Austrian troops are reported on the Roumanian frontier.