RUSSIANS STIMULATED BY PRUSSIAN REVERSE.
(Reo. 'September i, 1,20 a.m.) ' r.. Potrograd, September 8. morning. Experts ascribe the reverse near Ortelsburg to the superiority of the German guns from tlie fortress of Graiidenz, including the latest Krupps. The Russians fought with unflinching courago despite tlie terrible odds. The generals were killed'by a ohanco shell fired from a great distance. The frankness of tho general s'taff in publishing the news immediately had a bracing effect, and so from the disaster weakening tho attack, tho East Prussia forces have been united under General Ronnenkampf, and continue to drive tho Germans from the positions. . The Russians Jiavo destroyed several railways in the Konigsberg dis« Wet. >' The Germans have no field hospitals, but merely a large number of doctors, who do the dressing and perform operations in any available buildings. They have no tents, and tho wounded lie in villages along tlie line of march until an empty motor-car or omnibus or supply, wagon chances to return to the base..
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5
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166RUSSIANS STIMULATED BY PRUSSIAN REVERSE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5
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