RUSSIA
RUSSIA'S EIGHT MILLIONS, j TIIE FIGURES CONFIRMED, j MARCHING ON | BE THERE IN THREE WEEKS. | Received 28, 5.50 p.ic. Rome, August 2S. In a message 'from St. Petersburg-, it lis officially! stated that Russia lias practically completed tile mobilisation of eiglit million men, divided into four armies o! two millions, sent into the field one after the other, and they expect to arrive in Berlin in three weeks'.
i RUSSIAN ATTACKING ARMIES EVERYWHERE. AND AUSTRIA NOWHERE. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS. "Received 2S, 8 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 2S. The inhabitants of East Prussia are fleeing Berlin-wards. It is reported tliat traffic 011 the western railways was .suspended for three flays, to enable the transfer of troops from the western front to reinforce the forces in 'Eastern Prussia. The small German detachments wluvh occupied frontier towns in Poland are rapidly vanishing. Kalisz is a .heap of ruins, with dead bodies of the inhabitants strewing the streets. TILSIT TAKEN*. St, Pet t '.mrjr, August 27. It is officially announced that the Russians have' occupied Tilsit. (Tilsit is a large town in the extreme north-oast of Eastern Prussia, on the river Memel, not far from the frontier).
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 29 August 1914, Page 5
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