Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-15
RUSSIANS EXPLAIN
PRUSS|AN REVERSE
Army There Weakened, Says
General Staff, by Sending
Troops to GaIicia.
AUSTRIANS CLAIM ARMY
IS MEETING SUCCESSES
Story of Overwhelming Defeat De-
MED in Dispatch to Francis
Joseph's Embassy.

NEW IORh, september lo.-COl
Nicolai Golejewski, military attache OF
the Russian embassy at Washington,
who is now in this city, has received
the following advices from the Rus
sian general staff at Petrograd:
THE necessity to concentrate our
attention and our forces to the Galician
seat of war, where our signal sue
cesses are being followed up, has led
to a temporary weakening of our
armies in eastern Prussia and de-
layed, in this direction, our advance,
so successfully initiated at an earlier
period of the war.
Accordingly. in the first days OF
September the army of Gen. Rennen-
kampff halted on the line from Ger
dauen to Labiau.
September Z began a general move
ment of German troops against Gen.
Rennenkampff's army. as well as in Il
southerly direction toward the Russo
Prussian frontier. The broken and in
closed country in the Mauer lakes re-
gion made the estimation of the forces
which the enemy had concentrated in
it very difficult.
Met Superior Force.
September 10 it became clear that a
far-reaching turning movement of the
Germans was in progress This neces-
STATED the falling back of our army.
September II, in order to check up
the advance of the enemy, we under
took a partial offensive movement,
which revealed a considerable numer-
ical superiority of the Germans.
The fighting in this region con-
tinues."
Late last night Col. Golejewski re-
3d.
additional advices confirming the cap
ture of Rawa Ruska with 5000 prison.
ers and much ammunition. This mes
sage was virtually identical with the
Official communication issued from
Petrograd. except that it stated the
Russians had taken sOs guns at Rawa
Ruska. The official communication
gave the number of guns captured as
thirty.
Complete Victory Claimed.
NEWPORT, r. l., September 15.-An
official announcement, received by the
Russian embassy from Petrograd yes
terday, was made public by Joseph
Louis Molikoff, secretary of the en-
bassy, as follows:
Complete victory on the whole Aus
trian front Austrian northern army,
which was heavily reinforced by Ger
man troops. was pushed back against
the river San, between the Sth and
10th of September. Took ninety-four
guns, 10000 prisoners, 1000 of which
were officers. and a great quantity OF
machine guns and war material. Still
pursuing Austrian and German forces.
THE result of the great battle in
Galicia, in which 100000 men on both
sides took part and which lasted for
seventeen days, has now resulted in a
complete victory for our forces"
Austrians Claim Successes.
MANCHESTER, Mass, September Is.
Wireless advices received yesterday
by DR.. Konstantin Theodor Dumba,
Austro- Hungarian ambassador to the
United States. from Count Won Bert
hold, minister of foreign affairs at
Vienna, read as follows:
The battle of Lemberg has been sue
cessful. Our forces, which were placed
along and south of the Grodek road,
pushed back the enemy after five days
lighting.
Ten thousand Russians and numer-
Gus guns were captured, but 1t was i'm
possible to make full use of the sue
cess because our northern wing near
Rawa Ruska was endangered by over
whelming Russian forces, not to speak
of new Russian forces marching
against Gen. Dankfs army and into
the interval between this army and
the Lemberg war theater.
ION account of the superior strength
of the enemies, it was found necessary
to collect our armies. now fighting
with little rest heroically for three
days, into favorable positions, prepar-
ing them for new actions"