Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 47, 12 October 1914, Page 5

Russia

IN EAST PRUSSIA. RUSSIANS MAKING STEADY ADVANCE. United Press Association. Petrograd, October 10. Official.—The Russians dislodged the enemy from Vladislavoff, captured positions at Bakalajovo and Lakegantcha, and occupied Lyck. The Russians have taken 10,000 prisoners and 40 guns in the latest fighting on East Prussian frontier. The centre array, composed of a million mobilised at Warsaw, has advanced to within 30 miles of Thorn and 90 miles of Posen, The Czar has returned to Tsarkoeselo. TO BERLIN VIA PRAGUE. London, October 9. The Tunes* correspondent at Petrograd says—the-Czarls visit-to, the front may be taken as a further indication that the Germans are up against a stone wall. A Russian general expressed surprise at the Austrians sending their valuables from Vienna to Prague for safety, and declared: “They are making a mistake. We don’t intend to fritter away opportunities. Our objective is Berlin, and our road, via Prague.” “THE RIGHT TO LIVE." Petrograd, October 10, The Novoe Vremya advocates a timely agreement between the Allies with regard to the means to be employed to overthrow German militarism, lest the conclusion of the war should take them unawares. “The sacrifices already made,” says the paper, “will be vain if we leave intact the political organism which denies all save itself the right to live. The fight against militarism means, de facto, a fight against the Kaiser, personifying the German Em- ( pire.” GERMAN LOSSES AT AUGUSTOWO 60,000, Petrograd, October 11, The German losses in the battle of Augustowo are estimated at 60,000.