Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 29, 21 September 1914, Page 5

Russia

ON EAST PRUSSIA FRONT.

OPERATIONS WHOLLY ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY.

[United Press Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) Petrograd, September 20. Operations on the East Prussian front are completely on Russian territory, where the Germans are unable to utilise the railways owing to the different gauge. RECENT MOBILISATION. NEARLY A MILLION AGAINST POSEN.

Rome, September 19

Russia has completed the mobilisation of six million men. Only half a million are operating in East Prussia and half a million in Galicia. The centre army of 900,000 men is advancing on Posen. Another two millions are hurrying westward from Siberia, Turkestan and Caucasus, the rest acting as a reserve.

FURTHER EXTENSIVE CAPTURES. Petrograd, September 19. Russians at Jaworow captured the convoys of the 6th. and 14th Austrian troops, with thirty guns and enormous quantities of ammunition, and took five thousand prisoners. They won an important rearguard action all along the line.

Russians captured a siege artillery train of thirty-six howitzers that had been sent from Breslau to attack Hangoroo. General Rennenkampff is making .extensive use of motor-lorries to cairy reinforcements. He has over a hundred lorries, each containing twenty men, travelling at forty miles an hour, cowards the Russian flank.

Some of the German howitzers cap--I,ured at Lublin are now in use against the enemy.

The Germans occupying the Kalisch listrict ordered all the inhabitants to mrol in the German army. The men ted. Some of the fugitives were aught, and twenty were hanged.

GERMANS RETREAT AT SEVERAL POINTS.

(Receiycd 9.40 a.m.) Petrograd, September 20. Official: General Rennenkampff compelled the Germans to retreat at severil points in East Prussia. The Russians captured thirty-six Howitzers which were sent to the attack on Ivangorod, Galicia. A German army corps under General von Tretza was again completely defeated near Sandonierz, and only the remnants remain in Galicia.

RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS TO GUT OFF THEIR RETREAT.

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Borne, September 20

A Petrograd message states that the Russians completely cut off General Denkyl’s army forming the extreme left from Przemysl to Cracow, preventing a junction with General Hnffenburg. General Denkyl is making a desperate attempt to reach Cracow, and the Russians are advancing from Sandonierz to cut off their retreat. THE ARMY IN GALICIA STILL DOING WELL. BIG HAUL OF AMMUNITION.

(Received 9.40 a.m.) Petrograd, September 20,

The Russians have occupied the fortifications of Siniawa and Sambor and the Austrian rearguard has been driven out of Vischtia across the San. The Russians burnt Faroslav, and captured' three thousand immunition waggons. They also took prisoners, three thousand men, md ten guns in the Sandomie and dabomyail region.