The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-05
HE FRESH STORIES
 OF EUROPES GREAT WAR

already risen in rebellion and Russian telegrams stated that the Poles are to be treated as enemies This decides the fate of Russia. This news, further more. comes from Russia It was not made in Germany,
 Count von Bernstorff has evidently misunderstood or misquoted the news that did come from Russia on this sub Ject After his manifesto to all Poles. Russian, Prussian or Austrian, the grand duke. commander -in-c chief issued some days ago an order to the army to treat all Poles especially leniently and to give them, even as prisoners or inhabitants of the region the Russian army occupies, kind and considerate sia toward the Poles.
 Order Applied to Sokols But the mmand CT -in-chief de- ciared also that Galician Polish Sokols, that is, armed troops of a gymnastic society in Austrian Poland, cannot be considered as regular soldiers, but only as franc tireurs.' and treated as such This is an accepted rule of regular war fare, recognized by everybody and es- pecially enforced by the Germans them selves. Count von Bernstorff seems tc have generalized this last order and applied it not to the Sokol franc tir- 6QIS put 10 All IOlcS- hC4 c ic Ae doubt. that both of these orders came from Russia but the wrong interpreta- tion of them was certainly made some where else.
 q consider 1t my duty to give this explanation in the interest of truth, and the press can easily find the text. both of the manifesto and of these two or ders, as they have been published ir American papers"
 An official statemenf issued yester- day from the Russian consulate in this city tells of Russian victories over the Austrians in Galicia and of Russian ar mics holding their own against Ger mans in East Prussia.
 The statement. signed by Colonel Me olaf Galejewsky. military attache to the Russian embassy at Washington, fol- lows:
 1ur advance in the northern part of East Prussia continues. Russian troops have destroyed the stations of Lands : berg, Roffel, Bischoffstein and the rail- road lines, Helberg- -Zinton and Barten : stein Koenigsberg.
 Admits Severe Loss e'In the southern part of East Prus- sia, where the Germans have concen- trated re-inforcements from the whole of their front and have taken the of fensive in superior force against two Of our army corps, the latter suffered considerably from the fire of the heavy artillery brought up by the enemy from his Actresses on the Vistula.. but we brought up reinforcement and contact with the enemy is being maintained.
 "On the Galician front heavy fight ing continues
 ''On September 1 all the Austrian at tacks were respulsed our troops taking three guns, ten machine guns and over 1000 prisoners, who stated that the Aus trian losses were very heavy.
 "1n Eastern Galicia our advance con : tinues. Especially stubborn fighting took place on the river Gnila-Lipa. Here naturally strong position was elaborately fortified. and according to the statements of the prisoners, consid- cred by the Austrians to be impregna- ble. This position has been taken by our troops.
 "An attempt to check our advance by the counter attack from the direction of Galitch failed The Austrians were repulsed, leaving 4S00 dead on the field. Tn this battle our troops took a large number of prisoners. among them one general, a2 guns and ammunition and supply columns"