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kaiser's Troops Compelled to
Continue Retirement On
Right and Center.
AUSTRIAN ARMY DIVIDED,
SAYS PETROGRAD REPORT
Right Wing Operating Near Tomaszow
Has Been Cut Off From German
AIlies-BerIin Sending
Little News.
--latest DISPATCHES. J


Paris.-The allies, following up their
recent successes, with much ardor
have forced the German invaders to
continue the retirement of their right
flank and center from the east OF Paris
The Germans abandoned much
equipment and at the same time sac
rificed many prisoners and left their
wounded where they fell.
The British were again prominent
in the pursuit, in which, besides TAX
ing a large number of prisoners, they
captured eleven cannon, while the
French took another German regimen
tai flag.
The Germans tried desperately to
cross the Marne near Meaux. French
engineers had blown up the bridges
and when the Germans threw pontoons
across, the famous S-inch guns of the
French demolished the structures be-
fore they could be used. Sixteen
times the Germans repeated the eff
fort under raking fire of shot and
she'll
Austrians Cut Off.
Petrograd.-It is announced that the
Russian troops have succeeded in sep
arating the left wing of the Austrian
army from the troops which were
operating around Tomaszow and
Rawa, in Russian Poland. Tomaszow
has been taken after a desperate fight
The German troops near AIyszinec
and Chorzele, Russian Poland, have
been repulsed with heavy losses.
CChorzeIe is sixty miles north Of War
saw, near the east Prussian boundary
The Russian troops have taken by as
sault the fortified position of Opole
and Tourbin villages between Lub1in
and the San river, in Russian Poland)
and have pursued the enemy twenty
five miles. Russian cavalry is still
driving the rear guard of the enemy.
Russians RepuIsed.
London.-A Reuter- dispatch from
Berlin says that the general staff an
nounces that the Twenty-second Rus
sian army corps Of Finland has tried
! to force an entrance into East Prus-
STA by way of Lyck. The Russians
were defeated at Lyck. Lyck is in
East Prussia on Lake Lyck, thirty
miles east of ortelsburg.
Austrians on the Offensive.
| The following official German state
ment was received by the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Company:
TN the eastern theateF of war, the
| battle has been recommended and the
| Austrians have assumed the offensive
| in the region of Lemberg. During the
nine days fighting it is estimated the
Russians have engaged 100000 infan-
try, 10000 cavalry, 1900 machine guns
and 1000 field guns"
1t is possible that the Austrians have
kept the Russians busy in Galicia just
long enough to enable Germany to get
her troops into East Prussia before
the Russians were able to dispose OF
the Austrians and sweep down upon
Silesia, Posen and Prussia.
Berlin Office Is Quiet.
Berlin.-In accordance with its prin
| ciple Of reporting only accomplished
facts, the general headquarters Of the
army in Berlin is still silent concern
ing the great battle which is being
fought to the east of Paris. The Der
lin censors, however, are permitting
local papers to publish dispatches
from abroad. and from these the PEG
pie of Berlin have learned that great
events are now taking place.
In the meanwhile the German feet
is active in the Baltic. 1t is reported
to have invaded the Gulf of Bothnia
where it captured and sunk Russian
merchant steamer, the Uleaborg.
Servians Take SemIin.
Nish, Servia.-The Servians occu
pied Semlin, across the river from
Belgrade, after a bloody battle.
May Exchange Prisoners
Bordeaux-The Socialist members
of the chamber of deputies here have
decided to ask the government to per
NIT the French Socialists to obtain
through the Swiss Socialist party {
list Of the French prisoners held il
Germany In exchange, the French
Socialists would furnish the Swiss So
ciaIists a list of the German prisoners
in France.