Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-02
GERMAN VICTORY
OVER RUSSIANS
IS CONFIRMED
Cars General Staff Frankly
confesses Loss of Two
Army Corps.
LOSS OF THREE GENERALS
is EIKEWISE ADMITTED
British Censors, However, Per-
NIT Only Part of Dispatch
to Come Through.
LOSS OF THREE GENERALS
is ElKEWISE ADMITTED
BY the Associated Press.

been received here from st. Peters
burg to the effect that the Russian
general staff frankly confesses to dis
aster to two army corps, including
the loss of three generals. (This con-
firms the report of a great German
victory at Allenstein, received from
Perlin by wireless at the German
embassy in Washington yesterday
afternoon. The report declared that
10000 Russians had been captured)
Telegraphing from st. Petersburg,
the correspondent of the Times de-
clares that the war reports given out
by the headquarters staff in the Rus
sian capital are generally rather
nleagre; but, in contradistinction to
what is the case in Berlin and vi
snna, they are always true.
That the headquarters will stick to
this plan also when the news is had
is proved by the announcements OF
today This attitude shows their con-
fdence in the fortitude and stanch-
ness of the Russian people. which
undoubtedly is deserved and augurs
wei. for the future.
The wording of today's announce
ment indicates that other Vistula for
tresses, besides Graudenz and Thorn,
have been sent reinforcements The
news arrived last night and the peo-
pie of st. Petersburg received it with
firmness. Their faith in a final Rus
sian victory remains wholly un-
shaken.
General Samsoniv, one of the Rus
sian commanders killed, was consid-
cred one of the Russian great men.
He fought in the Russian Japanese
war. He was afterwards nominated
commander of an army corps, and
later appointed commander of the
troops in Turkestan. He lived in
Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, until
the present war was declared. He
was very popular and his name was
Il household word among all classes
Of the population.
The other two lost commanders, the
Times correspondent goes on, We're
General Martos, commander of an
army corps, and General Pestitch, at
tached to the general staff.
From Galicia the only news is that
a fierce battle is still raging The
situation in this Austrian province is
probably as follows:
A large Austrian army, with its
base upon Cracow and Przemysi, fifty
miles west of Lemberg, has occupied
the south portion of the Russian
Polish governments of Bublin and
Kielce. 1t advanced in two independ-
ent columns to the north, one ON
either side of the river Fistula.
Against the column advancing on
Lublin marched the largest part of
the third Russian army. The hostile
of T,I1hliT ard fn-
wards Tomashow, where the battle
announced more than a week ago is
in progress.
At the same time the Russian
fourth army crossed the eastern from
tier of Galicia and entered a series
of minor encounters in which 1t was
everywhere victorious, drove back the
Austrian forces massed there until
general battle ensued, about thirty
miles east of Lemberg. After long
sustained and heavy fighting at this
point the Russians captured several
places where the Austrians had taken
up positions fortified by field works,
namely at (names omitted
by correspondent)
Of the continued Russian advance
on Lemberg there are no further re-
ports.
In conclusion the correspondent of
the Times says the information given
out al headquarters in st. Petersburg
Indicates the Russians, in spite of
Austrian stubborn defense, will bring
victory home in this long-sustaine1
and terrible battle, in which prob
ably more than 100000 are engaged.
It is apparent the British censors
permitted only portions of the fore
going dispatch from London TO come
through Certain important refer
ences, notably the statement of the
Times correspondent in which he
sums up the Russian official an
nouncement of the disaster to two
army corps and the death of three
Russian generals were not permitted
to come out of England.
From the context of the dispatch,
however, the inference is clear that
she general staff at st. Petersburg
had announced a Russian disaster in
Prussia, which consisted of serious
defeat to two army corps, the send
ing of reinforcements, evidently Ger
man, to Graudenz and Thorn, and the
deaf in battle of three Russian gem
erals-Samsoniv, Martos and Pc
stitch.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The London Of
fee of the Chicago Daily News said
today ii had no confirmation of the
report that a young Frenchman
named Maurice Gerbeault represent
ing the Chicago Daily News in Bel
sium, had been arrested and shot.
NJ Gerbeailt was last seen with an
Associated Press correspondent twen-
tv mile south of Brussels.