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Show GERMANS INSIST Of! REVVSFROMTHE ARMY General Staff Issues Statement State-ment Announcing Situation Situa-tion as Favorable. BERLIN, via Copenhagen, Sept. 16, S:15 a. m. The German general staff announces an-nounces the situation on the west front is still "favorable." It declares that the French and English Eng-lish havet at no place on the whole battle bat-tle front won a victory, and that the Germans can look with confidence to the outcome. Other than this, no news is obtainable regarding the progress of operations. The public has been showing signs of impatience at the absence of news from the front and this has led headquarters to depart from its practice and issue reassuring re-assuring statements in general terms. The fact that the Siberian corps was engaged in the fignting aij Lyck. east Prussia, is noted with interest here aa indicating thart the mobilization of this corps must have been accomplished with extraordinary- rapidity to enable it to arrive ar-rive in Europe , within six weeks after the Russian mobilization order was is-sued. is-sued. No detailed account of the sinking of the cruiser Hela has been given out. Tt was merely stated that 172 of the 1 SI members of the crew were saved by German Ger-man ships in the vicinity. Among those lost in the previous battle near Helgoland were Admiral Maas, commander com-mander of tiie second scouting division, and Baron von Maltzohn. navigation officer of-ficer of the cruiser Koeln, who served a long time on the cruiser Bremen while she was at the American statfcm. He had manv friends in the United States. Commander von Retzinann, formerly naval attache at Washington, commanded the cruiser Strassberg in this engagement with the enemy. Hundreds of British subjects, principally women and girls, gathered at the American Ameri-can embassy yesterday to arrange for their return passage to England, which is now permitted to women, children and bovs under IS. The embassay has arranged ar-ranged for special trains for them for September 21. Arrangements were also made for viseing their passports. |