The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-02
In EAST PRUSSIA
GERMANS WITHDRAW BEFORE
FIERCE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
Cars Troops Continue to Move For
ward in Spite of Obstacles-No
Check Sustained.

Check Sustained.
A dispatch to Reuters from Paris
gives this war Office communication:
after the victory of the Russians
the German troops in East Prussia
evacuated the district of Masuren-
land )southern East Prussia). The
Russians sustained no check and they
occupied it's western outlets. 1t is
confirmed that they CAPTURE hun
dred guns fro mthe enemy.
In Galicia the Russian offensive
is being continued normally south
and southwest of Franpol."
The St. Petersburg correspondent
of The Post describes the difficulties
nature has placed in the way of the
Russian advance in East Prussia and
says the Germans have enormously
multiplied those difficulties by a
modern adaptation of age old meth
DDS. Lakelets and marshes were sown
with rifle pits and wherever practi-
cable redoubts of felled timber were
placed. Everywhere there are for
midable wire entanglements.
1--WE have no exact information. y
the correspondent continues, "of how
many army corps Germany left to
oppose the Russian advance. Per-
haps there were seven and possibly
only five. Whatever their number
three are retreating under cover of
the fortress of Konigsburg and one
is in full fight on Osterode.
"All four flung away in retreat
their arms and ammunition and even
their food. The Russian armies by
forced marches have driven wedge
| between the German forces. So de-
moralizing was the Russian COM
mander's strategy that the German
! forces abandoned their entrenched
| position on the Angerapp without a
fight.
"The authorities of East Prussia
have caught the panicky feeling from
| Germany's armies. It is reported
that the commandant Of Marienberg
has ordered the inhabitants to evac'
uate the country, while at Elbing the
sluices were opened with the object
of flooding the country to prevent the
Russian advance. These are methods
of despair and indicate pretty GER
tainly that Germany has no more
trained troops to oppose the Rus
SLAMS.
with the true eyes for strategy
which mark the born commander, OF
men, Grand Duke Nicholas has aban,
doned to it's fate everything every
where which did not lend itself tc
the attainment of single aim o1
locating, attacking and crushing the
enemy's main force. In accordance
with this policy quite half of Poland
was left bare of Russian troops and
all public servants of Russian troop:
and all public servants of Russia
state were warned to quit betime<
when the Germans advanced.
Both the Austrians and Germans
accepted the invitation to this cas-;
conquest. There were no soldiers
anywhere to meet the German invad'
ers whose cavalry raided as far as
Lodz but they have since been swept
out again"
! A Berlin dispatch sent by the Wolf
bureau and reaching London by way
of Rotterdam says that Emperor Will
! liam has directed the following tele
gram to his ministry:
Main headquarters, August 27
The trials to which my royal province
of East Prussia is subjected by the
invasion of Russians fills me witt
greatest compassion, but ] know the
courage Of my East Prussians toe
well not to know that they are ever
ready to offer themselves on the altar
of the fatherland and will readily
give their blood and wealth for the
sake of their country and manfully
bear the hardships of war.
Confident of the irresistible might
of our heroic army and unashakable
belief in the help of a living God to,
gether with the consciousness thai
we are fighting for worthy cause
should give us faith in an early de-
livery of Germany from its enemies
"I wish that everything possible
shall be done by the German people
for those East Prussians who are
obliged to leave their homes. With
this invitew charge my ministry and
the various state authorities to assist
in the, work of relief. Take thorough
measures for this purpose and report
to me what has been done.
| (Signed) William, Rex"
( tn meet the situation confronting the