VICTORIOUS ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIANS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2256, 16 September 1914, Page 5

VICTORIOUS ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIANS.

.'■ /FIGHTING IN EAST PRUSSIA . GERMANS HEAVILY DEFEATED IN .POLAND. .Petrograd, September 14. Official: '.'The necessity of developing tho attack in Galicia temporarily prevented the Russians having a sufficient force in East Prussia. To continue the invasion,. General Rennonkampf suspended the marcli on the line between Gerdauen (40 miles S.E.'of Konigsberg) and Labrau\ (a Prussian town on the shore of the Kunsehe Hatt', and SO miles E.N.E. of Konigsberg). The Germans took the offensive on September 7.'against the left wing, causing it to retreat. General Rennonkampf resumed the.offensive at certain points on September 8. He discovered that tie Germans greatly outnumbered .us. Fighting continues. , Germany is sending strong reinforcements by sea to Memel, tlie most north-easterly port of Russia, almost on the Russian frontier, to threaten Tilsit, 55 miles S.S.W. of that port, in tie. interior. RUMOURED CAPITULATION OFAUSTRIANS. - ' • '. ' Paris,. September 14. The "Matin" lias published a Petrograd telegram stating that there aro persistent rumours that the larger part of the Austrian armies has capitu- \, lated. > ' GERMAN ARMY DEFEATED WITH GREAT LOSS. (Rec. September,lS, 11.10 p.m.) London, September 14. The Russian Embassy says that the German army commanded by General Hindenburg was defeated near Mlawa (in Poland, about ,75 miles N.N.W. of - Warsaw, and some 25 miles belowthe Prussian: frontier town of Soldau). The Germans are evacuating Poland. The Russians have resumed 1 the offensive in Prussia, commencing with the siege of Konigsberg. The German losses total 50,000. A message from Rome says that four Russian armies ;are hastening to invade Germany—two in East' Prussia, the third towards* Posen, and the fourth, the strongest, in Lower Silesia. , HUGE CAPTURES BY THE RUSSIANS. • . (Rec. September 15, 11.10 p.m.) Petrograd, September 14. . Official.—The Russians operating against the Austrians and Germans took the following:— ' * . ' 180,000 prisoners. 450 field guns. 1,000 fortress artillery. 4,000 transport wagons. 1 12 flags. 7 aeroplanos. SERVIANS IN POSSESSION OI SLAVONIA. (Ree. September 15, 11.10 p.m.) Nish, September 14. The Servians have occupied all the, territory between the Danube and. Save Rivers, compassing the wholo of the Austrian territory of Slavonia.