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Show Russians Send News of Their Latest Fights Reports Say Czar's Troops Are Pursuing Austrians With Energy; Defeat of Enemy Continues Petrograd,. Sept. lG.-Tho follow. W tag summary of tho recent lighting In Galicla, from the Russian point of view, has heen mado public In ."aro Er:.d through soml ofndal channels: -Russian troops nro pursuing tho Austrians with energy nnd tho defeat of the enemy continues. Certain Austrian army corps have been virtually virtu-ally annihilated. Russian forces have passed the Hlvor San. "The eastern Russian advance, guard Is approaching Przemysl. The rhpldlty with which military operations opera-tions are being conducted has made It Impossible to determlno accurately the losses of the enemy, but It may be said that they oro becoming colossal. colos-sal. According to such Information as has come to hand tho Austrians have lost in tho neighborhood of "250,-000 "250,-000 men In killed nod wounded, this )n addition to 100,000 prisoners, 400 pieces of ordlnanco and a number of standards. In all directions tho roads are crowded with ttrtlllery, transport wagons and nrms and ammunition am-munition which have been abandoned abandon-ed In mass during the precipitate retreat re-treat of the enemy. Action at River "On tho River Vistula Russian troops havo taken possession of an accumulation of materlnl for bridge building, :md they destroyed several steamers, ono of which was nrmort-d. "Tho desperato efforts of German troops to savo tho Austrian array from utter rout should bo recorded. The active participation of tho German Ger-man army corps In tho fighting has been revealed at several different places along tho Austrian front, as,. v tor Instance, nt Tourohlno. "Tho Russians captured thirty rflx pieces of long range German artillery la addition to some 5000 German prisoners nt this point. At other places on the front several dc.en large German guns, many of which had been prevented by lack of time from being used In tho fighting, fell Into their hands." In conclusion this announcement of Russian successes declares that the succor sent by Germany did not sao tha Austrians, and that tho heavy ilb-feat ilb-feat Indicted on the Germans has contributed con-tributed to tho brilliancy of the Kus alnn victories. |