West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-09-17
Germans Beaten In
East Prussia
kOEEIGSuUnc INVESTED
BTaSlaD ard PasGn Threatened
By kasSlia Cavalry
READY TO RESU'sE ADVANCE

London, Sept. ia dispatch TO
the Central News from Rome says
teIegraphic advices received there
from Petroerad are to the effect that
the seventeen days battle OF the Rus
Is Aus.ca German
forces ended with the following re-
Prisoners taken, 10000; field guns
captured, 450 fortress artillery cap.
tured, 1000 pieces; transport wagons
taken, 1900; aeroplanes captured. z.
The Russian embassy i'm Rome, ac-
cording to the correspondent of the
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
loss OF 10000 men.
The Russian armies, having over
whelmed Austrian military power IN
Caiicia and outmaneuvered the Ger
mans i'm east Prussia, is already de-
veloping her main campaign against
'Berlin-the advance OF 1.0eO, 900
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
sibie reinforcement of the crushed
Austrians and deterring them from op
posing the advance against Breslau
General Ruszky in Galicia is breaking
up and capturing the fleeing armies
OF the Austrian generals, Won Auffen-
berg and Dankl. The Grand Duke
Nicholas. the Russian commander in
Aof. 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, IL appears that Rus
sia has played in the field of eastern
Prussia the same tactical game fol-
lowed by the allies in Franco
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 I'm 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. II
Is positively stated that the Russians
are resuming the offensive in east
Prussia. The siege OF Koenigsberg has
been resumed.
It 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.
countdracting this view is the state
ment t~given out at st. Petersburg by
Minister Of War Sukhomlinoff
by the retirement OF the Russian
troops in southeast Prussia we have
drawn large German army into n
position where II will be unable to
render help to BresIau or Posen. IL 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-
sia has been retarded owing 10 the
necessity OF giving our main attention
20 striking Calicia. Consequently the
army OF General Rennenkampf has
suspended its march on Gerdauen,
thirty-nine miles southeast OF KOenigs.
berg. On Sept the German troops
began a general offensive movement
against this army and a spreading
movement In the direction OF their
southern frontier. II was difficult 20
estimate the number OF troops engaged
twng TO the open nature OF the coun.
try, but the deep overHowing move.
ment against the left wing OF General
Rennenkampfs army was revealed on
Sept. 10. We we're forced TO retreat
on the following day In order to hindet
the enemy's offensive operations. The
fghting continues on this front"
As regards the second stage OF ths
Russian operations, the oalician O,
fensi;f. 70 appears from every quarter
thai the Russian victories have beer
underestimate. II is oficially an
nounced from st. Petersburg that a.
Russians have taken 2S0 900 Austrian
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