Omaha daily bee., 1914-10-12
FLEEING GERMANS
PLUMBER SUWALK1
Report from Petrograd Asserts Teu'
tons Lost Sixty Thousand Men
at Augustowo.
SECRECY IN OPERATIONS NEED
Austrian Statement Declares Losses
of MuscOvites in Attack Upon
Fortress of PrzemysI
Were Terrible.

LONDON, Oct. ia dispatch to the
Reuter- Telegram company from Petro-
grad gives the following official state
ment
THE last of the German soldiers has
evacuated Suwalki "a government of
Russian Poland) carrying off the valu-
ables they had taken as loot. They did
not have time to force the payment of a
war levy of $4,000 which had been i'm
posed. ps
1T Is estimated that the Germans lost
5000 men in the battle of Augustowo."
Germans Retiring.
PETROGRAD, Oct 1.-THE following
communication. under date Of October .,
has been made public by the Russian
general staff
"The combat on the East PrussIan from
tier continues with the same obstinacy.
The German troops are retiring from
Lyck and are blowing up the bridges be-
hind them.
In several passes between Ivangorod
and Sondomir, artillery battles are Oc-
curing with the enemy, which is ap-
preaching the Vistula."
Secrecy Necessary.
An official Russian communication is
sued recently states that in view of the
importance of the coming battle and the
changed disposition of the Russian forces
secrecy is necessary in regard to military
operations Therefore the only possible
remark Is that the drawing IN of the
Russian forces from the north and south
is to meet the attempted Austro-Germsn n
advance into Poland.
The victorious army of General Rennen-
kampff, having driven back the Germans
from the region OF Augustowo as far as
Lyck and Prostken. which is now in the
possession of the Russians, has accom-
pished its purpose and is now free to
send part of the troops southwark. At
the same time, the Cossacks pouring into
Hungary have now changed their objec-
tive.
The Russian troops are now acting eX-
clusively on the offensive in Poland. The
attempted advance of the Germans In
! this country demands a massing OF the
Muscovite forces along the line from
Lubin 10 Warsaw and Lemberg, where
the indications are that the Russian Of
fensive Is already in progress. Mean
while, no further action is expected 10 the
north of Bialystok, where the Russian
| army is contented with having repulsed
| the Germans as far as necessary.
Russian information is that following
the taking Of Antwerp by the Germans
the army thus set free will proceed i'm
mediately to the Russian frontier, while
In the western theater of war the Ger
mans will confine themselves to defensive
| tactics.
Russian Losses Terrible.
/ VIENNA, oct. u.-(Nia Amsterdam
/ and London.)-An official report from
| headquarters says
i Our advance has forced the Russians
I to slacken their efforts against Przemysl,
which had reached It's climax on the night
of October 8, when the Russian losses
were terrible.
Yesterday afternoon the artillery fire
against the fortress became weaker. The
Russians commenced TO withdraw their
forces.
our advancing troops, near Lanout "a
town in Gslicia, twelve miles east Of
RzeszOw), engaged superior hostile forces
The battle continues
/ The Russians already have evacuated
[ Rzeszow The situation in the Carpath-
ians is good. The Russians retreating
from Maramaros-Sziset are now in fun
flight"