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Show RUSSIAN GENERAL IS LOADED WITH CHI1S Major Condemned to Death by Germans for Alleged Infamous Acts. LOiVDON, Sept. 20. S:22 p. m. The following' dispatches have been received from Berlin by Marconi wireless: "It is reported from Vienna by wav oi contradiction of the fi&ures published from Russian sources as to the Austrian losses, that the Austrian army has repeatedly defeated the weakened Russian forces; tliat the Austrian troops hold a strong position in Galicia and are ready for further fur-ther fighting. "Hamburg has been visited by a strong southwesterly gale, and has suffered considerable con-siderable damage from a flood. Near the village of -Moorburg, the bursting of a dike haa flooded the neighboring country, which in parts is several feet under water. "Councilor of Justice Blumenthal. a former member of the reichstag, burgo- I master of Colmar and member of the ! first chamber of Alsace, has been placed ! on trial charged with high treason. His property has been confiscated. "The Russian General Martos, who ordered or-dered all male inhabitants of east Prussia to be shot and the villages destroyed, has been brought into Halle in chains. He will bo tried by court-martial." (General Martos was reported on September Sep-tember 2 to have been killed In battle ln east Prussia.) "A Russian major has been condemned to death after a trial by court-martial. He is alleged to have committed infamous acts. "General Dankl has expressed his thanks to the first army for their glorious glor-ious victories at Krasnik and lAibtln. He states that his undefeated army has suspended its attack upon an enemy of twice its strength, and has now occupied a position which it has gained." |