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Show Russians Advance in Eastern I Prussia and Invade Gali CI3 il FRENCH CAPTURE 1 4 GERMAN OFFICERS; TURKEY SAID TO HAVE DECLARED WAR ALLIES BATTLING DESPERATELY LESS THAN 50 MILES FROM PARIS Russia on Eastern War Stage Admits Disaster to Two Army Corps Elsewhere Czar's Armies Triumph March on Berlin Planned Battle Between British and Germans Ger-mans on Upper Oise Rages Fiercely Advance Ad-vance Becoming Difficult. ALLIES MAKE DETERMINED PLAY FOR TIME . Germany Making Renewed Efforts to Bring Italy Over to Her Side Western Coast of Belgium and Coast of France Clear of Germans St. Petersburg Despatches Meager But True Heavy Losses of Austrians Confirmed Million Men Engaged. London, Sept. 2, 4:42 p. m. The steam drifter Eyrie, engaged in mine sweeping operations in the North sea, struck a mine this morning and went to the bottom in three minutes. Six members of her crew are missing, five were saved. New York. Sept. 2. Dow & Jones company today published pub-lished the following today on its news ticker: "London Un- confirmed reports are current here that Turkey has declared war on Russia. Communication with Constantinople has been cut off for three days and the Turkish ambassador stated he had no way of telling when he would hear from his government gov-ernment again." Paris, Sept. 2, 3:15 p. m. "A German cavalry corps, j marching toward the forest of Compiegne, on the left wing of the allied forces, engaged the English, Tuesday, Sept. 1 . The English captured ten guns." This statement was given out officially today. Paris, Sept. 2. via London, 12:20 p. m. The Petit Parisien, today says that fourteen German staff officers have been captured and sent to Nimes in the Department of Gard. London, Sept. 2, 9:40 a. m. A despatch to the Daily News from Rome says: "Besides advancing in East Prussia, the Russians are also invading Germany in northern Galicia, their object being Koenigsbutte, in Prussian Silesia, whence presumably they will march on Berlin via Breslau." London, Sept. 2, 1:30 p. m The announcement from Vienna that preparations prep-arations have been made for the evacuation of Lemberg, the capital 01 Callcla, in view of the "Inevitability" of an approaching Russian occupation, occupa-tion, is the first official admission that the Austrians have been worsted In the prolonged fighting In Galicia. Moreover, Russian accounts from this field of operations hae been continually cheerful. Even the defeat de-feat of Russians by the Germans in east Prussia has unabated the optl-mleni optl-mleni of Petrograd The Russian chief of the general statr calls the effalr merel) B reverse due to the unexpected appearance of heavy German Ger-man reinforcements accompanied by siege guns apparently from the fortresses fort-resses of Thom and Graudmz. Nothing so complete as the present censorship of news from the actual battle lino in France has beeu known elnce the beginning of the war Significant News Received The significance of the removal of the German military headquarters from Cohlen7. to an unknown destination destina-tion is difficult to estimate, but the change is regaided as highly Interest 4ng. The announcement by a Paris paper pa-per that fourteen German staff officers offi-cers have been captured and Interned at Nimes is the first intimation of this Incident It may possibi;. be significant, although it is not said where the Germans were taken pris oners The Russian embassy here has thought it desirable formally to deny reports of pogroms at Vilna, which it attributes to German and Austrian sources. The embassy has received a dispatch from Petrograd (Si Pe rersbnrg) declaring that these reports are without foundation and that Vilna Is perfectly calm The Christian and Jewish populations are working together to-gether for the relief of tho wounded. The Prince of Wales relief fund today to-day passed the 10,000,000 mark Reverses In East Prussia. London, Sept 2. 2:35 p m The Russian embassy here has received from the sonera staff at Petrograd (SL Petersburg) the following ac- count of the Russian reverses in East Prussia: "Our offensive continues In our western position in east Prussia Our troops have destroyed the (railroad) stations at Landsberg, Roessel and Bischofsstein and the Heilsbi rg-Zln-tern and the Bartensteln-Koenigs berg railroads. 'In the southern iortion of east Prussia the Germans brought up reinforcements re-inforcements all along our whole front and attacked our two army corps. These corps suffered a ch i V . caused by the heavy artillery which the Germans brought up from neighboring neigh-boring forts on the Vistula. "Our contact with the enemy remains re-mains unbroken and fresh Russian troops are arriving on the Austrian fronts. "The stubborn righting continues ' London, Sept 2, 10.10 a. m. A eor-j ner of the curtain over the battle, drama in northwestern France has momentarily been raised It shows the allies battling desperately to prevent pre-vent the success of the German assaults as-saults on the upper Oise, less than littv miles from Paris "On the eastern war stage Russia frankly confesses to disaster to two army corps, with the loss of three generals elsewhere the Russian arms seemed to have triumphed. Galicia; has been successfully invaded and, Lemberg will soon be evacuated, according ac-cording to reports from the St P. t-ersburg t-ersburg war office, if this is true, the Austrian menace to Russian Po land will be ended and the Russian forces can begin to converge for tne march on Berlin, the Russian objective objec-tive in north Galicia apparently beinK Koenisgbutte, whence they can march on Berlin via Breslau. On the upper Oise the British are fighting desperately to prevent ti"' Germans from obtaining one of the most direct routes to Pans The bat-: tie raged Sunday and Monday and by j sheer weight of numbers the Germans secured a slight advantage Advance Becoming Difficult. Military experts point out. from the present position on the upper Oise river, the German advance will become be-come increasingly difficult, owing to the natural features of the country as well as the artiticial defenses that will have to be encountered. It Is becoming evident that all along the western line, the allies an playing for time In the hope that the German assault will become exhausted. exhaust-ed. On the diplomatic side. Germany is making renewed efforts to bring Italy Into her camp by a proclamation proclama-tion which cites that a victory for, England and France will deprive Italy of all chance of dominating the Mediterranean Medi-terranean The western coast of Belgium and the northeastern coast of France are apparently clear of Germans. Antwerp has asked for an increased garrison. The town has also experienced expe-rienced a shudder because of another Zeppelin isit Tin- great dirigible was fired on and It departed without dropping any bombs Russians Advance on Lemberg. Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Sept I 2. via London. 11 56 a. m The following fol-lowing official announcement was made public here today "Our forces Invading Galicia have continued their advance In the dl rectiou of Lemberg The enemy tell back gradually before our troops We captured som cannon, some, rapid fire guns and 60me caissons. The pursuit continues. "Near Gulla ( '.' and Lelpa (?) the enemy occupied a strong position of such natural strength thai It was considered con-sidered Impregnable. They also desperately des-perately attempted to stop our advance ad-vance by a flanking attack in the direction di-rection "of Halurz ( ") Buried 14,600 Austrians. "We repulsed the Austrians infill in-fill ting sri p' losses V burled on the batllf field 14,600 Austrian dead, captured a flag and 32 guns and B quantity of supplies, and made many prisoners, including a general. "On the south front, in the Warsaw War-saw district, all the Austrian attacks have been repelled with success. As ! siimlng the offensive on our right ' wing, we forced the Austrians to retreat! re-treat! capturing three cannon, ten I rapid' fire guns and over 1000 pris-! pris-! oners. According to Btatt mente made ! b? th- latter, the Austrian lOBSea were very heavy " Russion Dispatches True. London, Sept. 2, 6 10 a m Telegraphing Tele-graphing from St Petersburg the correspondent of the Times, declares that the war reports given out by the headquarters staff In the Russian capital are generally rather meagre, but in contradistinction to what is the case ln Berlin and Vienna, they are always true. That the headquarters will stick to this plan also when the news is bad Is proved by the announcements of today. This attitude shows their confidence con-fidence in the fortitude and staunchness staunch-ness of the Russian people, which undoubtedly is deserved, and augurs i ll for the future More Reinforcements Sent Wording of todays announcement indicates that other Vistula fortresses, fortres-ses, besides Graudenz and Thorn havc been sent reinforcements The news arrived last night and the people ot Si Petersburg received it with tirm-ness tirm-ness From Galicia, the only news is that a fierce battle Is still raging The situation in this Austrian province is probably as follows: Austrians Occupy Lublin. A large Austrian army with lis; base on Cracow and Przemyl 50 miles west of Lemberg. has occupied the south portion of the Russian Polish i governments of Lublin and Kielce. It advanced In two independent columns col-umns to the north, one on either side of the river Vistula Against' the column advancing on Lublin' marched the largest part of tho third! Russian army. The hostile forces; met south of Lublin and toward Tomashov. where the battle com-in com-in ( need more than a week ago Is In I progress. At the same time the Russian fourth army crossed the Russian frontier fron-tier of Oalicia and, after a series of) minor encounters. In which it was, everywhere victorious, drove bac k tlii Austrian forces massed there until a general battle ensued about thiny miles east of Lemberg. After long sustained and heavy fighting at this point, the Russians raptured several places where the Austrians had tak 1 on up positions fortified by field works, namely at (names deleted bj C( nsor) Of thp continued Russian advance on Lemberg there are no further reports re-ports In conclusion, the correspondent ol 1 the Times says that the information, given out at headquarters in St Petersburg indicates that the Russians, Rus-sians, in spite of the Austrian stub-' born defense, will bring victory home In this long sustained and terrible battle In which probably more than 1.000,000 men are engaged Wedge Entered at St. Quentln. London, Sept. L'. 9:15 a m. In a dispatch from Fans, dated Sunday, Angus! SO the local correspondent of the Daih Mall, says there is one circumstance regarding the position in which the allied armies now find themselves which may be regarded as hopeful. This is that at St. Quentin. the angle of their position, they appear ap-pear to have thrust forward n threatening threat-ening wedge into the enemy's center The allies will have the benefit In the engagement that will be resumed al daybreak tomorrow (Monday), tin-correspondent tin-correspondent continues, of moving on the enemy's Interior lines There Is, therefore, hope perhaps that n vigorous counter attack from La Fere might succeed In cutting through the German center. "So here is the eneruv within 60 miles of Paris." the correspondent declores. "what will happen if the fortune of this battle once again goes against the allies? We may perhaps gee British troops fulling back with their French comrades on Purls " Russian Reverse Local. Ixmdon. Sept. 2 1- 25 p. m A tcl-egram tcl-egram received in an official quarter In Ixindon today from the chief ol the Russian general staff declares that the Russian reverse In eastern Prussia is to in? regarded as purely local and due to the sudden reinfon-. ment of the Germans (probably at Graudens and Thorn) and the arrival of their siege guns Russian reinforcements also Immediately Imme-diately arrived Germans Advance In North. London. Sept. 2, 5 a m. The Times correspondent al Dieppe, France, has telegraphed his paper follows : "In the main northern theatre of war the German advance appears to continue without slackening its pace. "It must be Indeed an overwearied arms thai the Germans are bringing towards the forts of Pans They hae made an effort which nearly deserves de-serves to be called superhuman. Nothing like It ever before was seen in war "Yet we niay be sure they have spent themselves in vain 1 Washington, Sept 2 The Turkish nmbassador here sold today be was unable to confirm the report from London that his country had declared war on Russia. He has not been In cable communication with his govern ment for days |