The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-10-14
GERMANS SAY RUSSIANS LIE
ABOUT RECENT FIGHTING.
RUSSIANS CLAIMED ROUT
Niemen River Reported Choked With
Dead German Bodies.-Oyer Sixty
Thousand Slain Was Report, but
Germans Say 1t Didn't Happen
Claim Russians Were Whipped.

4 wireless dispatch from official
headquarters at Berlin say that the
report of an advance of Russian for
ces across the Niemen River, in the
district Of Suwalki, Russia, is lie.
The battle took place near Angus
towo, where the Germans, October 1
and 2, completely defeated two Rus
sian army corps, made thirty-five hun
dred prisoners and took twenty guns,
of which one was a heavy battery
gun, and a number Of machine guns.
On October 4 German troops threw
a brigade of Russian rife guards
from fortified position between Opa-
tow and Ostrowiec, in Russian Po-
land, and took three thousand pris-
oners and numerous guns and ma
chine guns. On October 5th the Ger
mans attacked near Rudow two and
a half Russian cavalry divisions and
parts Of the 1vangorod reserves, and
drove the Russians back on Ivan
gorod.
Elsewhere along the Russian front
the movement Of German troops for
strategical reasons has caused a Iull
in the fighting In France we are.
gaining ground slowly, bur surely,
and the situation continues favorable.
The battle front Of the right wing
has been extended until it is north
of Arras, where our vanguard cane
in touch with the enemy's cavalry ?
A dispatch from Paris, from the
Battle Front says the fercest fighting
which has marked the conflict in the
French theatre of war has proceeded
since Monday on the western wing oil
the allied armies. New forces Of
German cavalry and infantry, which
have appeared in front of the allies
lines have used every resource and
every effort to attain success.
They have thrown themselves again
and again at the French and British
who have brought equally stsong bod
les Of troops forward to oppose them.
The battle is no longer one of ma
chine-like strategy of two armies,
but contest centering in the powers
of endurance of two bodies of human
beings.
At one point the German cavalry
succeeded in breaking through the
allied lines, at place which must re-
main undisclosed, but not in suftl-
cient strength to make their feat OF
appreciable importance. The retire
ment Of the allies was, however, fully
in accordance with the plans of the
general staff.
The breach in the line was at an
acute angle and the Germans were
placed in a very precarious position
from which they were ousted with
great loss later in the day.
Never perhaps in military annals
have so many men come to close grips
with steel and kept up the struggle
so long. An official announcement
made known for the first time was
the vast numbers of German forces
fighting in Belgium and France. They
are composed of no fewer that %
army corps of the active German
army. IS army corps Of reserves, seV-
eraI divisions of the landweflr and
large detatchments Of the landsturm.
Under normal conditions this num-
Der of units make a grand total OF
nearly two million men. From this
total, however, losses must be deduct
ed. The number Of allies facing the
Germans has not been made public.