THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 708, 30 September 1914, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT. London, Sunday. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says that it is officially believed that a great and decisive battle in East Prussia is imminent. Complete confidence is expressed by General Rennenkampf, who fights on ground of his own choosing. The armies are now in contact near the frontier at Kali-jcz. It is officially announced in Petrograd that fighting with the German troops commenced at Sopsockinde, south-eastward of tha Russian frontier town of Suwalki, and also at Doaskiniki and Grodno. It is officially announced that the Russians repulsed German vanguards at Suwalki, in Russian Poiand, on Wednesday, and were also successful at Louisaz. After the withdrawal of the Russians from East Prussia, Germans approached the frontier town of Wirballen. The Russians occupying the trenches replied weakly, and the Germans then continued their fusillade. They saw no sign of the enemy, and concluded that the Russians had fled, and therefore advanced. When about to step on Russian soil they stopped and sang "Die Wacht am Rhein." Brandishing their rifles and shouting "Hoch," they rushed into the village, and immediately a deadly fire opened from the Russian* trenches, while th 9 Cossacks charged down in a final bayonet charge Not a man re-entered Gerany. A Zeppelin hovered over Warsaw and dropped two bombs near Kaliscz railway station, but little damage was done. Subsequently a shot struck the airship near Modlin fortress, and she was brought down, the crew being made prisoners.