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Show CZAR'S ARMY IS PURSUjNGENEMY 'Progressing Along San River Without Meeting Any Resistance Re-sistance Day's March From Przemsyl. GENERAL IS HONORED No Fighting in Eastern Prussia Monday Germans Claim Defeat of Russians. Petrograd. Sept. 15, via London. 5:40 p. m. The general staff has issued is-sued an announcement as follows. "Russian troops are progressing along the lower stretches of the San river without meeting resistance from the defeated enemy, who continues to rctrenL" "After having occupied Grodek. 16 miles west of Lemberg. and reached Mosciska, 37 miles south by west of Lemberg, the Russians find themselves them-selves within a single day's march ot Przemysl. "There was no fighting on Monday Id eastern Prussia. , "Emperor Nicholas has conferred A the decoration ol the Order of St. George on Lieutenant General Radko Dlmitrief for his eminent services in the filed." Berlin. Sept. 15 (by wireless to New York, via Sayville, L, I.) It was officially announced in Berlin today that General Von Hindenberg has telegraphed Emperor William, that the Russian army or Vilna, composed or the Second, Third, Fourth and Twentieth Twenti-eth army corps two reserve division-? and five divisions of cavalry, have-been have-been completely defeated by the Germans Ger-mans The Rii3sian casualties were The number of Russian prisoners is Increasing, General Von Hindenberg Hinden-berg goes on, and the destruction of the Russian army continues. Them hae been spoils of war in enormous quantities. The Russian army of Grodno has been defeated at Lyck. It comprised, In addition to the. T --"""v" -w mo i wt'uiy-aeconu corps, the remnant of the Sixth corps and a part of the third Siberian corps. The German headquarters announced announc-ed at midnight last night that the heavy fighting in France was still un decisive. The French assault, It was snld, had been repulsed. Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Emperor William, who was wound j ed In battle. Is reported to be dolnj; 1 well. A dispatch that reached here from Constantinople says that certain Bri' ish naval instructors in Turkey ac cused of having committed depredations, depreda-tions, have been prevented from doing do-ing further harm. It is further declared de-clared In this message that the wireless wire-less apparatus has been removed from the British embassy in Constantinople. Constantino-ple. London, Sept 15, 4.22 p. m V dispatch dis-patch to the Exchange Telegraph Co from Petrognid says that after the capture of Opole and Tourobine Russian Rus-sian forces have hemmed the enemy into an angle formed by the junctlo-i of the river Vistula and the river San Bordeaux, Sept 15, 3:15 p. m -An orricer who has Just arrived here from the front states that a German gen oral commanding an artillery division of the army of the center, attempted suicide on receiving an order to re-k.u re-k.u ,Afterwards he was captured by the French and sent to the center of i ranee. nrv- |