Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1914 — HUNGARY FREE OF RUSSIANS [ARTICLE]

HUNGARY FREE OF RUSSIANS

Statement From Austria Given Out by Nation’s Ambassador in Washington. New York. Oct. 23—The AustroHungarian consulate issued the following statement, reosived by Dr. Konstantin Dumba, the Austrs-Hungarian ambassador to the United States, from the foreign secretary at Vienna: “According to official statements dated the 18th instant, our offensive in several victorious engagements reached the line of the San heights, east of the Przemysl heights, west of Sambor. Przemysl, which had withstood and repulsed a heavy siege by the Russians, is relieved. Hungary is free of Russians. “In Russian Poland strong German forces, together with Austro-Hungar-ian forces, advanced up to the Vistula line and the mouth of the San river to Warsaw and south of Warsaw'. Re.pulsed eight Russian army corps. “No news from the Servian and Montenegrin war theater.”