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Show RUSSIANS CLAIMING SERIES OF TRIUMPHS NEW YORK, Aug. 25. The military attache of the Russian embassy today issued from the Russian consulate here the following account of the operations of the Russian army: Battles in eastern Prussia on the 17th to '2.1st of August were marked by great stubbornness. At Lyk, the retreat of the Twentieth German army corps assumed an extremely hurried character. In this locality the Russian troops took possession of a great number of rolling stock, also of large stores of forage, fuel, etc., and confiscated the local treasury containing 50,000 marks. On August 20, at Gumbinnen, the enemy brought intobattle no less than three army ' corps, trying to turn the right flank of the Russians, but was repulsed. Meanwhile a counter attack was delivered by the Russians against the enemy's center, which led to the capture cap-ture of a considerable amount of German Ger-man artillery. By the Russian left flank, toward the evening, the enemy was also defeated and requested an armistice, which was refused. Further Fur-ther to the south, on August 21, the Russians took Goldap and Aris. On August 22 our successes were developed, the enemy in complete . disorder retreating behind the river Angerapp, but the bridge over that river at Darkehmen was seized by the Russians. To the south of the river Angerapp. the Russians are in possession pos-session of Johannisburg. Orteisburg and Villinberg. On August 23 the Russians took Soideau and Neipen-burg, Neipen-burg, from which localities considerable consider-able forces of the Germans retreated to the north. In Galicia, on August 17, at Novo-stav. Novo-stav. our cavalry drove the squadron of the Ninth Austrian regiment into a swamp, where two officers and 165 hussars surrendered. On August 22, in a big cavalry engagement en-gagement between Zioczow and Zborow, against an enemy in superior forces, the Russian cavalry took from the Anstrians two horse batteries bat-teries and 100 prisoners. Bridges of the river Sere are in the hands of the Russians. |