Show SOLDIERS OF CZAR ROUT THE gehm an ANS DESPERATE BATTLE IN EAST PRUSSIA RESULTS IN VIC TORY FOR RUSSIANS the germans having suffered enormous losses in four days of Fight fighting inq fell back pursued by russians st petersburg grand giand duke alcho las ins commander in chief of the RUB rim army on sunday issued the following statement battles lit in east prussia on the esth and of aug august us I 1 w wera r fought with mith the utmost desperation de the spirit of the troops la Is excellent our battle front extends for a distance of 01 over er forty ersts about twenty six miles the Itus russian troops occupied goldapp and A ayres res the retreat on the of tho the german army crops near lyck lck resembled a roul tho the money confiscated lit in tho the treasury amounted amount pd to tia marks the I 1 troops are evacuating the frontier in the vicinity of the gernian german population Is abandoning the villages and fleeing northward on the austrian frontier up to august A U ao 20 no serious collision occurred tho iho Itus russians forced an austrian battalion to eacullo and rava russe on august 20 the Cern germans ians near Gumb limen engaged three truly army corps and tried to envelop the lius russian right wing where the lighting fighting vas aa iti intense tense ly fierce the russians took look tho offensive offen she in ili the iho center and captured anany asin guns gulls tile tho enemy eneim demanded demind pd an all armistice lu in order older to bury their lead dead but ut tills this was wab refused on oil august 21 victory crooned 11 the efforts of tho the russian army tho the germans having haing suffered enormous losses ire aro falling hack back pursued by the russians |