Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-03

artillery, by which the Germans were moved down until in some places the dead were three deep.
 Turn French Left.
 The arrival of the Germans in force at Campaign was assumed, according to Paris reports, to indicate that the Germans had been at least partly suc- cessful in the effort to turn the French left wing; that they had cir cled the forts at Laon and LaFere, and found positions in their rear with out being obliged to attack them.
 An official statement by the French war office that the allies center was holding was viewed as encouraging and it was not overshadowed by off cial admission that the left wing was slowly falling back, and that the dis tance between the German right and Paris was steadily diminishing.
 Military experts said that the allies, in falling back upon Montdidier had taken up splendid strategic position.
 General Paul Pau, the veteran of 1870, has been withdrawn from Lor- raine and placed in command of the French left wing.
 RusSinS Lose Heavily.
 The fighting in East Prussia and Gallcla was far more sanguinary than that in the western theatre of war. Berlin officially claims the destruc- tion of three Russian army corps and the complete rout of the Russian in vading force. The Russian invasion n Hast prIccio hoc checked. said the Berlin statement.
 The Russian corps referred to by the German accounts, however, were believed to be the same that Ger many claimed to have defeated yes- terday at Allenstein, when, it is as serted, 10000 prisoners were taken by the Germans.
 The Russians admitted the loss of two corps, SO,OCO men in killed and prisoners, but declared that the Rus slans were pushing forward into Prussia and that nothing could stop them.
 The Russian investment of Koenigs- burg is complete, according to a state ment by the Russian general staff, the fortress being besieged and part of ehC tONI H III INuScldH pOSSeSSlUn.
 Austrians Slain by Thousands.
 dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the Russian army fighting against an Austrian army had taken complete possession of Lemburg, the capital of Galicia, after a desperate battle, in which the Austrian army was all but crushed.
 The surviving Austrian regiments were surrounded, the Russians claim ed. and the entire Austrian army of l,OOO,00O is in danger of annihila4ion. Two million Russians are said to have been engaged.
 The battle between the Russians and Austrians began eight days ago on the Dniester river. The Russian reports of the fighting said that it was one of the bloodiest battles of modern times, the Austrians losing 4,000 men and 100 officers taken pris- oners, and unnumbered thousands dead and wounded. Whole brigades of Ausrtians were annihilated, and the Austrian prisoners include men of high rank.
 The Austrians admit appallingly heavy losses, but gave no figures. The loss of three general is conceded by the Russian general staff.
 An official statement received here from Vienna, while not confirming the occupation of Lemburg, said that the entry of the Russians into the city was inevitable and that, therefore, the archives were removed Germans !. Capturei Lodx. An official statement issued tonight in Berlin ldeclared that the aGermans had captured Lodz, the, largest man ufacturing city in Russian Poland. after inflictlng a severe defeat on the i; Russians. The statement also denied