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Show Fight in East Prussia. PARIS, Sept. 11. 12.:34 p. m. In a dispatch dis-patch from Petrograd to the Havas agency an official communication declares that t'hft Russian successes In Galicia are continuing. The dispatch from ,Petrograd is as follows: fol-lows: "This official communication was given out by the general staff today: M 'It Is necessary to turn attention to the theater of war in Galicia, where the development of our success continues. Up to the present time we have been prevented from placing a sufficient force in eastern Prussia to continue the . invasion in-vasion so happily begun ' there- It was for this reason that the army under General Rennenkampf halted along the line from Gerdauen (in east Prussia, forty miles southeast of Koenlgsberg Ho Llbau. German -troops on September P took up a general ofenslve movement against tills army, executing advance j movements toward our southern frontier. Tt is different on account of the geographical geograph-ical obstruction In this terrain to know exactly how many of the enemy were engaged. en-gaged. It was not until September 10, when the great attack on the Ifft wing of General Rennenkampf's army wis made, that the numerical strength of the enemy was , revealed. They were found to be much superior to our forces. It is along this line that the battle now rages.' " i |