| Show RUSSIAN SOLDIERS LAND IN BELGIUM FIGHTING HAS BEEN ON GIGANTIC SCALE AUSTRIANS AUSTRIANS' BEING REPULSED RE PULSED SAY THE ALLIES Russian Jn Army of Men Landed at Aberdeen Scotland and Conveyed Conveyed Conveyed Con Con- Across Country on Special Trains to Transports The Russian embassy at Washington Washing Washing- ton has las as received an official report from SL St Petersburg setting Betting forth that Russian troops are triumphantly marching on Lemburg repulsing the Austrians all along the line The rhe fighting lighting has been on a a. gigantic scale Russians being engaged against Austrians lt It all indications do not fail faU the report from the Russian capital continues continues continues con con- the Russians will be definitely victorious and as a result the roads to Vienna and Berlin will be open to the Russian armies In n a n dispatch from the Russian capital cap ital the correspondent of the London Times quotes the message of Grand Duke Nicholas to the emperor on the Russian victory victor In Galicia as follows I am happy to gladden your majesty majesty maj maj- esty with news of the victory won by bythe bythe bythe the army of General After seven seen days daS of Interrupted fighting the AustrIans are retreating in complete disorder In some cases they are run run- ning away and abandoning their guns rifles rines artillery packs and baggage trains Prior to this decisive battle General General Gen Gen- eral army captured In the course of the seven days twenty four guns a multitude of firearms and a great number of or machine guns A RusSIan army of 72 OO men transported from Archangel Russia was as landed at Aberdeen on the east coast of Scotland Scot and on August 27 and conveyed on special trains to Harwich Harwich Har Har- Grimsby and Dover where transports were Waiting to take them to Ostend in Belgium according to officers rs and passengers of the Cunard liner which reached Nev New NewYork York from Liverpool E Every ery precaution was taken by the English and Russian military authorities authorities author author- lUes persons on the l said to keep the fact tact that foreign soldiers were being transported to England from becoming known and the serIce service service ser ser- vice Ice on the east cast coast railway lines was suspended during the seventeen hours the troop trains were on their journey journe It was generally believed by those on the who made these statements that the Russians would be joined at Ostend by British marines waiting there to receive them and that the combined forces would operate co-operate with the Belgian army at Antwerp |
