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Show HEAVY LOSSES IN S!XWEEKS t . . 1 All Previous W ar Casualties Are Far in the Background Fateful September 1. BOTH SIDES SUFFER ! Slav Natives of Austria Put in Front of Battle Line Trains of Wounded. London, Sept, 9. 4:55 a. m The correspondent of the Times at Petro grad sends the following: "The extent of the losses during the first six weeks oi the war places all previous casualties far in the back ground. Not less lhan 10,000 dead Germans were counted in the trench 'K after one engagement in eastern Prussia. "On the fateful September 1. when, two Russian corps came to death trom the flgbt with four German j corps north of Soldau. thp losses of i both bides totalled betwe-n 60,000, and 70,000. the majority being Ger-1 I mans. "The results of the fair at Nljnl.1 L Novgorod, prove conclusive evidence) r of the comparatively 6mall effect of j the war on internal trade Business v ;is suspended for only two or three: days at the beginning of mobiliza ' tion. but afterwards it was normal, i hi re was a brisk demand for goods' from Central Asia. Persia, the Causa-; ens and the Volga regions. A ma , j jority of the firms are ready to extend ex-tend credit to regular customers The i state bank too. by active discount ing. supports the far Purs alone suffered through the interruption of j lorelgn trade." Slav9 Put in Front. Condon. Sept. 9. IOiL'o a. in. The; correspondent of the Ceutral News at Petrograd wires: The Slavonic natives of Austria, arriving here as prisoners of w?.r. declare they were placed in front of the battle line purposely by the Auk-I trlans. "H is proposed to Lodge the wound j ed Austrlans and Germans In thpj empty German and Austrian embassies. embas-sies. Trains filled with prisoners and ll 8 numbers of Russians and Austral Aus-tral as. wounded at Cemberg. have arrived here." |