RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS WESTWARD

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2239, 27 August 1914, Page 5

RUSSIANS DRIVE GERMANS WESTWARD

ENEMY IN STEADY RETREAT , CANNONS AND QUICKFIRERS ABANDONED (Rec. 'August. 26, 11.10 p.m.) T , . „■. „ ~,, ~. „ .St. Petersburg, August 26 morning. it la officially gated tlmt the Russians have occupied Angerhurg, in East Prussia, about 30 miles south of Insterburg. The, Germans are retreating 'br forced marches. Part of the army is concentrating at Konigsberg The Germans have abandoned their previously fortified position on the River Angerapp, without'firing a shot. The road is strewn'with cartridges shells ' and knapsacks. , ■ _ . The Russians fought successful but sanguinavw engagements north of S'eiderburg, on the- frontier directly south of Konijsberg, with important forces of Germans. In the samo region, on tne twentieth, a German Army Corps' consisting of threo divisions, occupied a fortified position at Frankenau ■- ~ ? h( i5 us i s . lans on . Sunday and Monday forced tho entrenchments, nud attacked the fortifications with hand grenades and bayonets. The Russians on Mondav morning enveloped the left flank of the Germans, who fled, abandoning sever-il' cannon and quickfirers. . • ' , i•1 ' v ' LINE OF RUSSIAN ADVANCE. (Rec. August 27, 0.5 a.m.) rni, i, • , •; „ . , . '• s , tl P3«ersuurg, August 26. me itussian advance into Germany isr designed to avoid difficult group's of lakes and marshes, and narrow fortified passages, which will impede the Germans in the event of a retreat. The Russians are converging upon Friedland and Eylau, about twenty-five miles from' Konigsborg, and already control the junction of several German strategical railways, ahd when they penetrate a little further they will command tho whole of East Prussia. -■■ ■ ■ .' ". VIENNA PREPARING FOR RUSSIAN ARRIVAL. ':'■ '■■" ' (Rec. August 27, 0.5 a.m.) nt •i j ,i . , Vienna, August 26. . iiy imperial decree the city has beeen ordered to bo placed in a state of derence m view of the possibility of tho Russians arriving. ~ m, „ . , ■■;', St. Petersburg, August 25. : „. nn l n «? Russians have occupied several passages south of Tarnpool, a town of 34,000 inhabitants, about 120 miles east of Lemberg, in Galicia, They also defeated an Austrian cavalry division at Prougnoudan, capturing two batteries and two hundred men. . GERMANS IN FULL FLIGHT AT GUMBINNEN. - (Rec. August 27, 1 a.m.) ';■'.•■ ' : ".-.'.,.,;.,'■,. Ti, ', ~; Cl , „ ~ . st - Petersburg, August 26, morning. The central.feature of the Gumbninon battle was the Russian BalacFava charge. Ihe Germans, held a village fam which they were pouring a murderous hre. Ihe Horse Guards were ordered to silence the guns. The first squadron rode straight at the, battery, which -ivas firing point blank, and mowed them down. The Russians' second squadron followed, and would have shared the same fate had not a third squadron charged on tho flank, sabred the gimners, and routed the, Germans. : ; V ' ' ' ; :V< t ~ -Eye-witnesses: state that the Germans Tan like rabbits, and officers Utt'd'-men discarded their swords and helmets in.their anxiety to escape the" Nizhni Hussars, who are famous swordsmen. The Russian casualties: include Tepresentatives of the best known families in the Empire. .."""""