The chronicle=news., 1914-08-28
RUSSIANS TO
MOVE on BERLIN
(Csnunuea rrsn pass ID
Alsatian himself was wounded while
rescuing the Frenchman."

London, Aug. 2S.-PrcMier As
quith announced in the House of
Commons today that the British
troops in Wednesdays fighting were
exposed to the attack of five German
army corps. The losses on both sides
were great.
A Central News dispatch from
Brindisi, Italy, says that a British
destroyer sank an Austrian destroy
er off Corfu after a ten-minutes
fight.
The Russian embassy has received
kilograms confirming the Russian oc-
cupation of Tilsit. a town in East
Prussia, 60 miles northeast of Koe-
nissburg. 1t is added that the Rus
SLAMS made great captures and that
the garrison and population fled.
The Russians have established pos
tai service in east Prussia and Rus
sian stamps are used.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
of the Post in describing the opera
tions in East Prussia. tells of the diff
ficulties which nature has placed in
the way of the Russian advance and
says the Germans had enormously
multiplied these difficulties by mod
ern adoption of age-old methods.
Lakelets and marshes were sown
with rifle pits and wherever prac-
ticable redoubts of felled timbers
were placed. Everywhere there were
formidable wire entanglements.
I'VE have no exact information,
the correspondent continues, "of how
many army CORPS Germany had left
to oppose the Russian advance. Per-
haps there were seven and possibly
only five. Whatever their number
three are retreating under cover of
the fortress of KOenigsburg and one
is in full flight on Osterolde.
"All four flung away in retreat
their arms and ammunition and ev-
EN- their food.
"Thc Russian armies by forced
| marches have driven a wedge be-
tween the German forces. So de-
moraliZ'ng was the Russian COM
mander's strategy that the German
| forces abandoned their entrenched
position on the At Angeraph, without
a fight.
"The authorities of East Prussia
have caught the panic feeling from
lGermany's army. 1t is reported that
the commandant of Marienberg has
ordered the Inhabitants to evacuate
the town while at Elbing the sluices
were opened with the object of flood.
ling the country to prevent the. Rus.
sian advance.
| The Exchange Telegraph company
publishes dispatch from its Ghent
correspondent saying that the Ger
mans have placed number Of quick
firing guns in the outskirts of Brus-
sells. principally on the north side
from which direction the Belgian
Troops in Antwerp would arrive for
an attack.
| Brussels is calm, the correspond
ent continues. The German flag has
been removed from the town hall tc
the ministry of foreign affairs.
The Incorporation of brigade OF
foot ball players into Lord Kitchen
er's new army is the latest proposal
to be made in England. Both the war
office and the football association
have received it with considerable
enthusiasm. The football associa-
tion has a membership of 1000
trained athletes who 1t is suggested
might be better employed in charg-
ing the Germans on the battlefield
than in charging eaclrs other qn the
football field The council 8f tho
association is to hold meeting on
Monday to decide If these 1000 men
shall be released from their present
engagements and the football fields
turned into drill grounds.
Virtually all the wounded men
brought back to England from the
front will be iisembarkcd at the
Southampton docks and from there
sent to the various hospitals in the
country. Nearly all the big London
hospitals appear on the official lists
of hospitals which have made ready
flor the wounded men. In the Lon
don area there will be established
also Queen AleXandra's warship and
four other military hospitals. So far
as possible the suggestion of Queen
Mary that all wounded should be
sent to hospitals in the local area of
the patient is being adopted. For in
stance, man from Kent would be
sent to Kentish hospital. Substan-
tial aid is being secured, in answer
to Queen AleXandra's appeal for Red
Cross funds by means of collection
boxes taken out on the streets by wo-
men workers. One of the most sue
cessful workers is little girl eight
years old who dressed as Red Cross
nurse, obtained two boxes full of
coins on Bond street in two hours.
No news reached London today
concerning the trend of events on
any part of the battle line where
fighting is in progress. Interest here
is intense, for it is felt that engage
now going on must have al
great Influence on the fate of Paris.