The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
10000
AuSTRlANS
CAPTURED
Germans Beaten In
East Prussia
KOENICSBURG INVESTED
BreS!au and P0SeA Threatened
by Russian Cavalry
READY TO RESUME ADVANCE
KOENIGSBURG INVESTED
READY TO RESUME ADVANCE

London, Sept. ia dispatch tc
the Central News from Rome say
telegraphic advices received there
from Petrograd are to the effect that
the seventeen days battle of the Rus
SLAMS aE2i-st the Austro-Germal
forces ended with the following re
SUMS:
Prisoners taken, 10000; field guns
captured, $50; fortress artillery cap
tured, 1000 pieces; transport wagons
taken, 1900; aeroplanes captured, Z
The Russian embassy in Rome, ac
cording to the correspondent Of tn"
Central News, says that the German
army commanded by General Won
Hindenburg has been defeated near
Mlawa, Russian Poland. and that the
Germans are evacuating Poland WITH
a loss of 10000 men.
The Russian armies, having over,
whelmed Austrian military power in
Galicia and outmaneuyered the Ger
mans in east Prussia, is already de.
veloping her main campaign against
Berlin-the advance of 100000
troops through Silesia.
While General Rennenkampf, com.
mander of the Russian armies along
the Baltic, is drawing the German
forces in east Prussia away from pos.
sible reinforcement of the crushed
Austrians and lettering them from OPP
posing the advance against Breslau,
General RusZky in Galcia is breaking
up and capturing the fleeing armies
of the Austrian generals, Won Aufien-
berg and DGnkl. The Grand Duke
Nicholas, the Russian commander in
chief, is beginning the grand advance
upon Berlin. Today there were Rus
sian cavalry screens operating near
Breslau. within 100 miles of Berlin,
and near Posen, within $50 miles from
the German capital. This campaign
has been from the beginning Russia's
cleverly concealed main objective.
Summing up the reports concerning
the operations in east Prussia reports
received from st. Petersburg, Berlin,
Rome and Paris, it appears that Rus
STA has played in the field of eastern
Prussia the same TACTICAL game fol-
lowed by the allies in France-a
gradual withdrawal designed to divert
powerful forces from aiding the dis
tressed Austrians or from interfering
with the forthcoming main campaign
in Galicia. There is even news OF a
great Russian victory over the Ger
mans in east Prussia, the Russian en-
bassy in Rome having been informed
that General Rennenkampf's army de-
feated General Won Hinderberg's army
near Mlawa, and that the German
losses are estimated at $4,000 men. 1t
is positively stated that the Russians
are resuming the offensive in east
Prussia The siege of Koenigsberg has
been resumed.
1t is officially announced at Berlin,
however, that the Russians have been
driven out of east Prussia, and that
General Won Hinderburg has crossed
the Russian frontier after a notable
victory in which 10000 Russian pris-
oners and $50 guns were taken.
Counteracting this view is the state
ment given out at St. Petersburg by
by the retirement of the Russian
troops in southeast Prussia we have
drawn a large German army into a
position where it will be unable to
render help to Breslau or POsen. 1t is
possible that after an investment OF
Cracow, General Braussillof will be
dispatched with large army against
Vienna"
The Russian official statement was
as follows:
Our rapid movement in east Prus
STA has been retarded owing to the
necessity of giving our main attention
TO striking Galicia. Consequently the
army of General Rennenkampf has
suspended its march on Gerdauen
thirty-nine miles southeast of Koenigs
berg. On Sept. Z the German troops
began a general offensive movement
against this army and a spreading
movement in the direction OF theil
southern frontier. ], was difficult Il
estimate the number OF troops engaged
owing to the open nature of the coun
try, but the deep overlooking move
ment against the left wing of Genera
RennenkamDCs army was revealed ~
Sept. 10. We were forced to retraa
or the following day in order to hindc
the enemy's offensive operations. TIL,
fighting continues ON .his 'front.'"
AS regards the second stage of the
Russian operations, the Galician Of
fensivc. it, appears from eve-y quartz
that tie Russian victories have beef
underestimate. It is ofdcially an
nouneed from st. Petersburg that tho
Russians have taken 2soOc0 Austrian