THE NEWS FROM EAST PRUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1914, Page 7

THE NEWS FROM EAST PRUSSIA

RUSSIAN COMMANDER'S REPORT SANGUINARY ENCOUNTER V PETROGRAD, 3rd October. TKk Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Forces, reports cliat the battle in East Prussia continues, the enemy retreating from Seiny, sometimes in disorderly fashion, owing to the activity of the Russian cavalry and artillery. Tho Germans rushed reinforcements by railway to tho region of Suwalki to assist the retreating forces. A sanguinary encounter ensued from Augustow to Suwalki. The enemy attacked with the bayonet and were repulsed with heavy losses. The Russians bombarded Augustow and then the infantry drove back the enemy. The Russians were successful at Szczuczyn and Grajevo. and invaded German territory and seized part of a convoy of motors. The fighting in this region is more desperate than 'any since the war began. Rains having compelled the German artillery to keep to the main roads, the Russian infantry are able to carry out attacks without awaiting the cover of their own guns. Wooded and marshy country was the scene of scores of isolated attacks upon the bogged and trapped Germans. The Russians, finally breaking the enemy's lines in at least four sections, captured much transport and a 'number of guns. [Suwalki is a government in the north-east corner of Russian Poland, extending to the "north between East Prussia and the Russian governments of Vihia and Grodno. The Niemen forms its eastern and northern boundary. The Augustow canal connects the Hancza, a tributary of the Niemen, with a'tributary of the Biebrz. Forests cover about one-fourth of the area of the Suwalk'i government. The town of Suwalki is the capital of the government. It is situated at the source of the Hancza, a tributary of the Niemen, sixty-five miles by rail north-west of Grodno, and has a population of about 280,000. It lies about 100 miles south-east of the German fortress of Konigsberg, and the same distance east of Allenstein. Szczuczyn' is in Russian Poland, about thirtyeight miles south-west of Augustow, and close to the East Prussian border. Grajevo is on the frontier line between Szczuczyn and Augustow, about a. dozen miles north-east of the former place. All the country mentioned above is marshy and otherwise difficult.] KAISER AND TSAR _„ _ , PETROGRAD, 3rd October. The Tsar has gone to the front. It is semi-officially announced that the Kaiser ' has gone from Thorn (in East Prussia, a few miles from the Russian frontier) to Bromßerg (about thirty miles further west of Thorn) •