Arizona republican., 1914-09-02
Berlin Dispatch Says That
Great Army of Russians
Was Captured at Gilgen-
burg and Russian Artil-
lery Is Destroyed.
GERMANS LOSE
IN EAST PRUSSIA
Various Infantry Organiza-
tions Reported to Have
Suffered Losses Reaching
Several Hundred Soldiers
in Many Instances.
IAssoc1ArEp PRESS DIsPATcH1

LONDON, Sept. 1.-The Copenhagen
correspondent of Reuters reports the
receipt of q Berlin dispatch to the
effect that the German general staff
has announced that over 10000 Rus
sian prisoners. including 900 officers,
We're captured at the battle of Gill
genburg The Russian artillery is
also reported to have been destroyed.
Gilgenburg is in East Prussia, about
thirty-two miles southwest of Allen
stein.
a dispatch to the Evening News
from Copenhagen says that the
twelfth German casualty list in
East Prussia gives the losses of the
Forty-third Infantry from Koenigs-
berg as about 500. The other regi-
ments engaged, notably the sixty
fifth Landwehr, from CoblentZ and
the fusilliers from Rostock and Wis
mar lost several hundred men each.
The correspondent adds that Senator
Won Hohenbern has been appointed
to represent the German war minis
Ntis MAUI Oll ain
enhayn. in Berlin during the minis
ter's absence at the front. General
Kurt Won Manteuffel becomes chief
of the general staff during the abb
sence from the army of General Won
Moltke.
Socialist newspaper correspondents
have been granted permission to be
attached to the general German staff
at the front.
telegram to Reuters Telegram
company from st. Petersburg. says:
Lieutenant General Samsonoff,
who commanded the corps in the
Russo japanese war and who until
recently was chief of Russian Turk
estan military district. is deeply re-
gretted."
The above would seem to indicate
that General Samsonoff had died, all
though no report of his death has
been received here.
The first 100000 recruits who re-
sponded to Lord Kitchener's appeal
have gone into training in various
parts of the country and men now
are enrolling at a much quicker rate
for the second hundred thousand.
In London alone 10000 Joined the
colors in the last two days, while the
response in the provinces has been
equally gratifying. In Birmingham,
where recruiting was particularly
brisk, the lord mayor. Colonel Ernest
A1artineau, has resigned his office
and volunteered for foreign service.
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster un-
ionst leader. called a meeting of lead
ers of the Ulster volunteer force for
Thursday when he will submit a
scheme with the concurrence of the
war office for the utilization of this
force as one body.
A Moscow dispatch to the. Central
News says it is announced that on
account of the existence of war,
Jewish doctors and students will be
admitted to courses of the Russian
Red Cross Society. Their admission
in normal times is forbidden by law.
Lieut.. Archer Windsor Olive of the
Coldstream guards. second son of the
Earl of Plymouth, died today of
wounds received at Mons.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Cen
tral News says that the town of
Malines was again bombarded for a
few minutes today
a dispatch from Bucharest, via
Rome to the Central News. says the
Roumanian general staff considers
the battle on the Austro- Russian
frontier will be decisive. They be-
lieve that an Austrian defeat will be
followed by a general insurrection
and therefore that whatever the sac
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