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Show OPERATIONS ON EASTJWIER Germans Concentrate Enor-mouns Enor-mouns Forces in East Prussia Prus-sia Cause Russian Retirement. AIDING THE AUSTRIANS One Whole German Army i Corps and Part of Another Bottled Up. London, Sept. 15. 2 50 a. m A dispatch dis-patch from Petrograd to tho Post telling of the operations on the Rus slan frontier says: "Tho Germans have concentrated enormous forces In east Prussia, caus- ing a corresponding retirement on thh part of the Russians. "The Germans, In aid of the hard pressed armies on the Austrian frontier, fron-tier, attempted to drive In with an overwhelming force along the line from Nordenburg to Goldap upon the Russian base. At the same time Russia had been drawing upon its forces for-ces in east Prussia for reinforcements against the Austrian front Thus the German attempt was well timed. General Gen-eral Rennptikampff, however, by clever clev-er maneuvering, succeeded In driving back the Germans with heavy losses. "The Austrian army, which Is re-treailng re-treailng on Przemysl, includes one whole German army corps and part of another. Thee forces are lost to German for the duration of the war for thev will be locked up In Przemysl. which the Prussians must take by a prolonged siege. Captured Guns In Use. "Enormous numbers ol maxims and field guns which wer captured by the Russians have been everywhere immediately turned against their old owners The Siliclan railways have been placed under the administration system. "The following incident of the Rus sian pursuit ,-nd the Austrian retrial has been received hf-re. It appears that forty men of the scouts regiment swam the wide. roiiKh Vistula river and succeeded in blowing up or setting set-ting afire an enormous quantity of the stores of the retreating Austri-ans, Austri-ans, Including two Austrian Steam-boats, Steam-boats, seventeen pontoons, eighteen laden barges, a large number of smaller small-er boats and rafts and a considerable quantity of military pquipment. This daring act which was done under cover of darkness was one of the main causes of Austrian distress on the retreat A large part of the Austrian Aus-trian army is suffering from hunger as s result of the destruction of its commissariat ' |