Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-19
BUT LITTLE ILLUMINATING NEWS
FOR GERMAN PUBLIC IS Given
OUT 0FFICiALLY-FICHT STILL ON
Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm Asks for Clothing for Sol
diers-Genera Outline of the Operations
In Eastern Prussia

Berlin, Via Rotterdam, Sept II. Via
London, Sept. 1880 A. MI
Crown Prince Frederick William to-
day telegraphed to the Zeitung am
Mittag as follows:
please collect and forward as ear
ly as possible wooden underwear ana
socks for my soldiers. Greetings,
tSigned1s - k8&
WILHELM, Crown Prince"
It was only few days ago that the
crown prince, who evidently has the
comfort of his soldiers always In
mind, telegraphed to Berlin news
PAPER asking 1t to collect and for
ward tobacco and cigars for his SOL
diers.
The healing of the wound of Prince
Joachim, the youngest son OF En-
peror William is progressing normal
ly. but it will possibly be several
weeks before he is wholly restored,
according to an announcement at the
imperial cort today.
No news from official sources for
publication has been received since
the midnight bulletin, whose reports
Gates that the battle Is still progress
ing. Otherwise there is littl eillu-
minating news for the German pub
lie and not the slightest hint of the
movements or positions OF the Ger
man army for the last ten days has
been disclosed by the military au-
thorities. The wording of the latest
German bulletin may, peahrps, be in
terpreted as indicating that there is
only a series of minor engagements
in progress but 1t is understood that
this is not the case. and that the at
lacks and counter attacks mentioned
are part of heavy general engage
nent.
Meanwhile the severity of the GEN.
sorship on the Russian front has
been relaxed and a number of stories
are coming through from which ii is
possible to draw a general picture
of the operations leading to the de-
feat of General Rennenkampf's Rus
sian army.
From Sept. to IS the Russians
took strong position on the line
from the Angerburg to Gerdauen, AL
lenburg and Wehlau, the left wing
resting on the Mazurian Lakes and
the right wing protected in the rear
and flank by the forest of Frisching
whose painless woods and swamps
furnished an almost impregnable po-
sition. The Russians devoted great
efforts to entrenching their position
and brought up besides their heavy
artillery. Russian cavalry secuted
far to the west and south but other
wise the army undertook no offensive
operations in the days following the
battle of Tannenberg.
General Hindenburg. the German COM
mander. meanwhile was assembling every
available man. depriving the fortresses
of their garrisons and calling in all but
n bare remna,lt of the force protecting
the southern frontier in the vicinity of
soldau. adding them TO reinforcements
received from the west.
General Hindenburg again resorted to
the customary German outfianking move
ment. and since the Russian right, pro-
tected by the forest and marshes seemed
too strong. he adopted the daring STRAIT
egg OF sending the thanking force to the
lake region to the south, the same charac-
ter of movement by which the Russian
Narew army was trapped and captured
short time before, and which in case of
failure might have been equally as dis
astrous for the Germans.
The strategy. however. succeeded, al
though General Rennenkampf offered a
desperate resistance TO the frontal at
tack. After three days fighting the Rus
SLAMS were forced back slightly in the
center. When the flank movement of the
Germans was discovered already threat
ening the flank, q counter movement was
launched against it with a new army COL
iecsed at Lyck, but the counter-attacks
failed and on Sept. 10 the Russians began
70 fall back o. their main position. re-
treating in sd a order and well covered.