The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1914-09-19

miles, hghtlng all the way. our cav
airy is in the rear of the enemy. To
maszow has been taken by our troops
after a stubborn battle.
Serious fighting continues along
Dneister On the east Prussian front
the Germans continue to advance.
Their main effort seems to be directed
toward the region of the MaZur lake.
Near Mishinetz and Horjele our
troops have repulsed the Germans, in
fiicting ON them heavy losses"
Petrograd, Sept 12.-German troops
which have been transported from the
west have concentrated along the
banks of the River ALE and are now
marching in long columns in an east
wardly direction and crossing the Ma
guard is retreating to the east.
London, Sept. 12.-The Berlin Off
cfal version of the fighting in the
eastern war zcne is Is follows:
I'm the - thCater Of the war
the battle .:''enced ar
the AuStr. ',e
fensive in IT,,
ing the nine duyl
mated that the Rus.
gagged 560,Cv0 infantry,
900 machine guns a.
guns
In a dispatch from CopenhagC
correspondent of the Reuter- IL
gram company says that General Vo
Benckendorff under Won Hindenburg
has defeated the left flank of the Rus
sian army in east Prussia with his
eastern army, and has thereby opened
the way for an attack on the enemy'S
rear.
The Russians are said to have
abandoned their resistance and to he
in full retreat, with the German east.
ern army pursuing them in a north.
easterly direction toward Memel.
General Rindenburg with the east
ern army outfanked and defeated the
left wing of the Russian army still in
east Prussia. The Russians gave up
fighting and are now retreating every
where. The eastern army is pursuing
the Russians in southeasterly direc-
ton toward the River Niemen.
A correspondent of the Bourse
Gazette, the Reuter- man continues, re-
counts that at Bendzin, Russian
Poland, the Germans compelled some
Polish miners to load the coal trucks
of their trains. The miners did so,
but concealed high explosive in the
fuel. The results were appalling. 1t
is said that one military train was
destroyed and that an ammunition
factory was wrecked. Cossacks are
credited with having wrecked a Ger
man armored train carrying quick
firing guns at point northwest of
ChenstOkoff. A small detachment of
Cossacks fired at the train while a
big force remained in the rear.
The Germans backed the train up
and it was derailed by the Cossacks
behind it. The cars rolled down an
embankment and the Cossacks there
upon attacked the enemy with their
swords. TIL Germans were annihilat-
ed, the correspondent of the Bourse
Gazette declares, and the Cossacks
captured the guns.
Reuters Telegram company has a
dispatch from its correspondent at
Petrograd, who says that after the
recent fighting with the Austrian left
wing the ene:uy's rear fed in such
panic that regiments became inextric-
ably mixed and blocked the roads and
bridges. Those furthest behind resort
ed to the strength of their arms to
force their way through the men aheGd
Of them. The roads were Uttered with
overturned carts and the harness Ct
the transport, the horses evidently
having been used as mounts by the
men in retreat.
Many Russian hospitals, the CORE
spondent continues, harbor more Aus.
trian wounded than Russian.
Copenhagen, Sept. IA dispatch
from st. Petersburg announces thlt
the German military governor of Bel
gium has ordered that all Belgian
reservists under youths liatle to serv-
ice by the end of 1914 be taken to
fight for the Germans. This is regard
ed as another outrage on international
rules OF warfare. The authorities of
st. Petersburg are furiously indig-
nant over this action of the Germans.
The Belgian reservists are believed to
be en- route to remote part of south
ern Germanv