IN EASTERN PRUSSIA.
;KAISER COMMANDS TWELVE CORPS. FLEECE FOUR DAYS' BATTLE. PETKOGRAD, September 30. The Kaiser is commanding twelve jfcriny corps in Eastern Prussia. '■A. fierce battle between General Eeniaenkampf and General Hindenberg has raging since Sunday-morning on - : \-iHit ..front extending front Grondo to
Druskeniki. Four army corps are engaged on both sides. The Russians are being constantly reinforced from Wilm, and have already repulsed the Germans at several points. The Germans' object is to cut the railway between Warsaw and Vilna. A new German armyrcorps has functioned with the remnant of the Austrians in Galieia, and the combined army is in contact with the Russians on a front from the Carpathians to Tarnow and Cracow.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 8
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116IN EASTERN PRUSSIA. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 203, 1 October 1914, Page 8
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