EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GERMANS IN PRUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 5

EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GERMANS IN PRUSSIA.

KAISER TO LEAD HIS ARMY AGADIST RUSSIA. RUSSIANS ON THE DEFENSIVE, AWAITING REINFORCEMENTS. PURPOSE ACHIEVED IN RELIEVING PRESSURE ON FRANCE. Times and Srdner Snn Service?. Received September IT, 6 11 m.) London*. September 10. It is estimated that the German forces in Prussia number 800.000. The Russians have extricated their army, and are adopting the defensive, while awaiting reinforcements. General Rennenkampf's army of penetration was only small, and was intended only to relieve the pressure upon France. It succeeded at a costly sacrifice, but the success was priceless to the allies. It is reported from Petrograd that the Kaiser is going to lead the armies concentrating against the cataclysm which Russia is said to be preparing. Excluding 400 guns taken in the Galician battle, 20 heavy German howitzers and 36 heavy cannon, bearing the Kaiser's initials, have been captured from the Sixth German Corps. The Novoe Vremya says that Wilhelm, not having succeeded in dining in Paris, is hastening hungry to Petrograd. Advices from Petrograd state that 4500 German prisoners hays arrived at Lublin, in Russian Poland. i..