RUSSIANS AT BERLIN IN THREE WEEKS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2241, 29 August 1914, Page 7

RUSSIANS AT BERLIN IN THREE WEEKS

FOUR ARMIES OF 2;000,000 EACH INHABITANTS OF EAST PRUSSIA IN FLIGHT (Rec. 'August 28, 5.50 p.m.) to n oHrnT 6age Pete ", b . ur S. 6a y s 4* officially efi thTLssia hag practically completed her mobi isation. Eight million men divided into four armies of two millions each will be eent into the field one after the other, lue Kussians expect to arrive at Berlin in three weeks. (E«o. August 28, 8.45 p.m.) m. &, i•, . . . St. Petersburg. August 27. fl, ,Y e ' n,labl ta nts of East Prussia are fleeing towards Berlin. It is reported tnat tratto on the western railways has been suspended for three days to enable the transfer of troops from the western front to reinforce Eastern <Tt> SS i la ' i sm s' German detachments which occupied the frontier towns ot Poland are rapidly vanishing. . ™»«b Kalifz is a Jieap of ruins, with dead bodies strewing the streets. TOWN OP 'TILSIT OCCUPIED. t. . a. . „ St. Petersburg, August 27 it is omcially announced that the Russian troops have occupied Tilsit. Tilsit is a town in East Proesia on the left bank of the Memel or Neimen here crossed by an iron railway bridge and is 72 miles north-eaat ol Konigsborg by rail. The river is navigable above the town, and there is steamboat cpmmumcation with Konigeberg and Kovno. Peace was signed at y . .