Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-28
RUSSIANS SWEEPING
FOE BEFORE THEM
IN EAST PRUSSIA
Even Cars Army Command
ers Are Surprised by Swift
ness of Advance.
BERLIN GREATLY ALARMED
FEARS AID WILL BE LATE
German Forces Hare Evacuated the
District of Masurenland, Dis
patches Declare.
INVADERS SUCCEED IN GALICIA
Drive Wedge Between Teuton
Troops, Causing Decentralization.
Austrians Begin Extensive
Fortifcations Along
the Danube.
BERLIN GREATLY ALARMED
FEARS AID WILL BE LATE
INVADERS SUCCEED IN GALICIA

LONDON. August %, 3 PM
Russian hordes are sweeping
everything before them in their
march through eastern Prussia.
The swiftness Of the advance has
even SURPRISED the Russian COM
manders, according to dispatches.
Berlin is declared to be exceed
ingly apprehensive lest the Rus
slams will attack the city before
aid can be sent back from the
western campaign.
A dispatch to Reuters Tele-
graph Company from Paris says:
"After the victory of the Rus
slams the German troops in East
Prussia evacuated the district Of
Masurenland. (Southern East
1 IPrussia.)
'The Russians sustained no
check in this very difficult posi-
.~tion, and yesterday they occupied
its western outlets. It is con-
.firmed that they CAPTURED hum
dred guns from the enemy.
"In Galicia the Russian often
sive is being continued normally,
south and southwest of Fran
pol"
Russians Make Captures.
The Russian embassy has received
kilograms confirming the Russian oc-
.cupation of Tilsit. town in east Prus-
sia, sixty miles northeast of Koenigs-
berg. It is added that the Russians
made great captures and that the gar
rison and population fed.
The Russians have established postal
service in east Prussia and Russian
A stamps are used.
II Col Osnobichin, Russian military at
tache in Paris, is quoted by the Jour
nal as having remarked, in an inter-
view, that he could say. without in
discretion that other armies were
about to invade western Prussia After
crossing the Vistula he said the Rus
slams would march straight to Ber-
lin.
Operations in East Prussia.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Post in describing the operations
!. in east Prussia tells of the difficulties
which nature has placed in the way of
the Russian advance and says the Ger
mans had enormously multiplied these
difficulties by a modern adaptation Of
age-old methods. Lakelets and
wherever practicable redoubts of felled
timber were placed. Everywhere there
were formidable wire entanglements.
I'VE have no exact information the
correspondent continues, .'of how
many army corps Germany had left to
oppose the Russian advance Perhaps
there were seven and possibly only
five. Whatever their number three are
retreating under cover of the fortress
of Konigsberg and one is in full fight
on Osterode.
All four flung away in retreat their
arms and ammunition. and even their
food.
Wedge Between Germans.
The Russian armies by forced
marches have driven a wedge between
the German forces. So demoralizing
was the Russian commanders strategy
that the German forces abandoned
their intrenched position on the
Angerapp without a fight.
The authorities of east Prussia have
N caught the paniky feeling from Ger
many's armies. 1t is reported that the
commandant of Marienberg has ordered
the Inhabitants to evacuate the coun-
try, while at Elbing sluices were opened
with the object of flooding the country
to prevent the Russian advance. These
are methods of despair and indicate
pretty certainly that Germany has no
more trained troops to oppose the Rus
SLAMS.
with the true eyes for strategy
which mark the born commander OF
men Grand Duke Nicholas has aban-
doned to its fate everything every
| where which did not lend itself to the
attainment of a single aim of locating
attacking and crushing the enemy's
main force
Half of Poland Left Bare.
I'm accordance with this policy quite
half of Poland was left bare of Rus.
sian troops. and all public servants oi
Russia's state We're warned to qui,
betimes when the Germans advanced
Both the Austrians and Germans ac.
cepted the invitation to this easy con-
| quest There were no soldiers any.
where to meet tn. German invaders
whose cavalry raided as far as Lodz
but they have since been swept ou
| again.
| dispatch from St Petersburg tt
| the Post says a significant piece Of
| news has reached there that the Aus
trians have begun extensive fortifica.
tions along the Danube, near Vienna
on the ground that 1t is necessary Il
n relieve the needs Of the populace b,
4 providing work
The Russian chambers will be sum
moned in November to ratify acts ol
high state Importance. This is inter
(preted to mean a realization in proper
form of the promise to unite all Po.