Show I I I I BERliN CLAIMS SUCCESS IN EAST AND WEST EST EST- Declares Russians Are Being Being Be Be- Being ing Driven Back in Prussia Prussia Prussia sia and Czars Czar's Advance Advance Ad Ad- Advance vance Checked EXPLAIN WEST MOVES I Newspaper Ne Declares Victories Victories Victories Vic Vic- tories Have Spoiled People Peo- Peo pie Who Cannot Realize Realize Re Re- alize Advantage of Defensive BERLIN Via Ia Rotterdam Sept 17 Ii 17 Va London Sept Sopt 18 13 a. a m Advices m-Advices Advices from rom the Milt east declare that Uta t from Septem ber 7 to 13 the Russians took a Q strong position on the line from toGer to Ger and I Kohlau the tho lef left t wing wins resting on the lakes bites and the he right wing protected In the rear and flank by tho the forest of ot whoso whose pathless woods oeds and swamps furnished an all almost impregnable position The Tho Russians devoted dO great efforts to their position and bro brought ht up b besides their heavy heny artillery Russi Russian n jn caValry cavalry cay alry airy which scouted far to the west and south but otherwise the army undertook no orr offensive e operations In tho days das followIng fol- fol fol lowIng the tho battle of ot The enemy's forces J according to th the e German Gennan official account were composed of tho the second third fourth and twentieth corps two reserve divisions and five cay aJr air air- divisions dh General tho the German commander com corn mander meanwhile was assembling ever overy y available a man depriving tho the o of f their heir garrisons and callin calling In all but t n a fa bare remnant of or the force Corco protecting th tho e southern frontier In tho the vicinity of add adding In them to reinforcements received receive from the tho went weaL General again resorted t to o th the customary German flanking movement t and since tho the Russian right protected b by y ho tho and marshes seemed too strong lie he ie adopted the daring strategy trA t gy of or SA SAng scud 8 lag InS ng the tue flanking force to tho the lak lake region regio n to th the south the same fame char character of move o ment b by w which Ich the Russian army my wa was s traI trapped poo and captured a short hort time limb b before fore and which In case of ot failure might hav e been equally as disastrous for the tho Ger Ger- mans Th The strate strategy however succeeded al ai aJ- aJ though General f offered i a a. d desperate sp rate resistance nce t to the frontal at at- tacks After three days days' fighting the Russian s w were ware re forced back slightly In the center conter When the flank funk movement of the Ger Ocr mans was discovered already thre threatening g the tho flank a R. counter r movement mO wa gs s launched Against them with Ith a new arm army y collected collect d at ot Lyck Lek Including the tho twenty second corps carps and parts of or the third SI SIberian SI- SI berlan berian but the h. h corps counter Aw Just arriving Va M rl from nnA n Q n 10 the Russians b began 8 t tt to t fall fail ii b bac back k k v on th their lr spain main position retreating in goo good kd d order andt well covered The Russian on tho the right win wIn g app appears ars to have made a n good retreat o ow Ing to a timely start rt while whilo the left win wing g was hard pressed b by th the tho enveloping German Her Get man Infantry From this lIlls win wing In the RUB trea rp-trea retreated ted across the bordor In tw to o columns the columns the main bod body went north north- ward arl and end the others other In an all easterly dIrection tion pursued by the Germans G who advanced advanced ad ad- advanced far Car from the border The German government nl has appointed d Count von yon as a. governor go of ot th the e Russian pro of Su and other otho er r points occupied by thorn thom Tho The University of oC Koenigsberg berg toda y conferred on General von honora honorary hon hon- ora doctors doctor's degrees from all nil four o ot f the departments department's of ot philosophy theolo theolog y law and medicine The Berliner prints print the fol 01 lowing regarding retarding the operations in th the wea st t We We ar are standing the on defensive on a a mile mlle battle batlle line and because wo we hav ae e been spoiled by a rapid series serle of oC victor Ictor Ics s many aro are unable to realize a d de d.- d. fence Cene under certain circumstances Is a s Justified n as 08 an nn offensive se We Ya have h learned little concerning th tho e situation but We wo can point to some omo sac ceaseS such ns os the tho repulse of the tho French h night attacks the retiring right no nor hr r breaking through tho the front The abandonment of or our orl original positions po bot between en Paris Parle and Verdun f fo for forI Or I strategic reasons l is in Itself nothing momentous In many days of battle am nd shifting positions final re results alono alone ar are e Important So long ns as the tho battle battlo coo con undecided with the possibility 0 o or f throwing In fre fresh h troops while the en enemy en- en emy ern m has e exhausted himself b by rep d attack tro tho Ilin nc ch 9 ar are h bett ft r than those oi Ot the r in Angio Co Captain the the correspondent of oC the describes th the ac cc- cc tion In cast east Prussia on on September 10 as follows owl Our heavy howitzer ho batteries located locate on the extreme right wing bombarded the and bom proofs bomb o of the Russian Infantry with terrible c of- of feat cot and from this this' position wo we wo cou could watch the progress of 01 the battle n-ith n with field fl floM li e hut but WOo we too h ht the big notes of or the mi music The Tho battle batUe salvos of or came cam In ever shortening Intervals and between betwee rolled tho the Infantry Ore fire row now In volleys volley and nd then Irregularly larb Meanwhile th the hard rattle of tho the machine gun guns guns' on th the tho edge fdge forest had bad a deafening sense ad adding ad- ad ding dine long lonE r of notes to fo the concert concer Tho The Russian shrapnel meanwhile burst buret too high or too 10 low Hear flear our ba bat bat- teries but tho the nu Russians after r a while got Jot the range e. e Soon our batt batteries in In- In creased their fire until th the heavens heaven seemed afire while whilo on the tho horizon th the tho villages broke broko out In flames names Through tho the field gla glae glass I r observed observe dark masses moving across tho the fields elds It was the tho well extended German Infantry advancing with rapid speed ether too high over ocr them theta exploded M shrapnel and from tho north came me Infantry c tire lIoon was allent U At t 1 4 in the afternoon the Russian Russia shrapnel gr gre reached rache its maximum yb- yb lenen icaco and then followed owed a t. cessation of all fire firo ro for t. t ten n minutes and arM then thon a Again L a tho tim fire W was S opened At Hi the Russian firo dro stopped d with our men advancing a n. n rapidly ns As possible and a n. little while afterwards l the he effect of or our flank move move- mont ment behind Loetzen made Itself JelL jelt I |