Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
German Troops Rushed on 100 Rail
way Trains to Meet
Cars Forces.
AIRsHIP Is BROUGHT DOWN
Zeppelin Bombards Town in Rus
sian Fo1and-Many Successes
Claimed by Embassy Military
Attache Now in
New York.

uSI ~, y o'hi'
Russians continue their
march through east Prussia. Con-
flrmation comes tonight of the
statement that they have sue
ceeded in investing Koenigsburg,
the strongly fortified fort, and
had taken Allenstein. It will be
long time, however, before they
can directly threaten Berlin, or,
indeed, before their millions OF
men can reach the scene of the
Austrian frontier where troops of
the Russian emperor are engaged
in a general battle on a front OF
900 kilometers (18o miles,, be-
tween the Vistula and Lemberg,
capital of Galicia.
One hundrd and sixty railway
trains loaded with German troops
have passed through Belgium
from the southwest toward the
northeast, according to an Ant
werp dispatch to the Reuter- Tele-
gram Company. This, it is added,
indicates that the Germans are
sending troops back on account
of the Russian advance. The Ger
man force at Brussels has been
reduced to minimum.
Garry One Army Corps.
These 100 trains. which passed through
last night. the dispatch continues, are
transporting one army corps with full
equipment. and tit would appear that
the rapid advance of the Russians is
compelling the Germans to withdraw
troops from the line of the Meusess
A Reuter- dispatch from St. Peters,
burg says a Zeppelin dirigible which
bombarded the railway station at
Poland. was brought down by Russian
fire. There were eight soldiers in the
car with quick firers and explosives.
Russian View Of Fighting.
NEW YORK, August 29.-Col. Nikolai
Golejewski, the military attache at the
Russian embassy at Washington. made
public here tonight cable messages from
the Russian foreign office in ST. Peters
burg regarding Russian war operations
The messages were as follows:
ION the Gahcian border a battle near
Tomashef and Monastyrskaia has been
successfully begun Further to the east
ward our troops are energetically clos
ing in on Hwow demberg), of which
town our advance troops are already in
reach. Our cavalry is actively clearing
up the country in front of the advance
Of our columns.
"On August % our cavalry, having
overtaken an Austrian cavalry division
to the west of Tchertkof. forced the
latter to fight, dispersed it and took a
battery of horse artillery.
Battle Is Continued.
'On the eastern Prussian front on Au-
gust 25. 26 and q. a battle was continu-
ed near Saldau-Allenstein- Bischofsburg,
where the enemy has concentrated the
army corps which retreated from Cum
binnen, reinforced by fresh troops
"Allenstein has been taken by our
troops. Inc NelHidhs suheFeu ESPECIALLY
neavy losses in Muhlon, between Aus
trode and Medenburg, where they are in
full retreat In the vicinity of Perrekoff
our cavalry defeated three German squad
rons reinforced by a company of cy-
clists. OF the latter, LII were taken pris-
onerS.
IN Galicia, August 26, a series of
separate engagements assumed the
character of a great battle which was
developing in the southern districts of
the province Of Lubin and Holmand
and In eastern Galicia. on the roads
to Hwow. over a general front Of 200