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Show DEFEAT MARKED BY STUBBORNESS New York, Aug 25 The military attache of the Russian embass today ii-sued from the Russian consulate here the following account of the op orations of the Russian army: "Battles in eastern Prussia on the seventeenth to twenty-first of Augusa were marked by great stubbornness. At Lyk, the retreat of the Twentieth German army corps assumed an extremely ex-tremely hurried character. In this locality the Russian troops took pos session of a great number of rolling slock, also of large stores of forage fuel, etc, and confiscated the local treasury containing 50,000 marks. Onl August 20th at Gumbinnen, the enemy brought into battle no less than three army corps, trying to turn the right flank of the Russians, but was re pulsed. "Meanwhile a counter attack was delivered by the Russians against tbe enemy's center, which led to the capture cap-ture of a considerable amount of German Ger-man artillery. By the Russian left flank towards the evening, the enemy was also defeated and requested an armistice, ar-mistice, which was refused Further tc the south, on August 21, the Rus sians took Goldap and Aris "On August 22 our successes were developed, the enemy n complete disorder, dis-order, retreated behind the river An-gerapp, An-gerapp, but the bridge over the river at Darkehmen was seized by the Russians Rus-sians To the south of the river An-gerapp, An-gerapp, the Russians are in possession of .Tohannisburg, Orteisburg and VII-linberg. VII-linberg. On August 23 the Russians took Soldeau and Neipenburg, from which localities considerable forces of the Germans retreated to the north. "In Oalicia. on August 7. at Novos-tav, Novos-tav, our cavalry drove the squadron of the Ninth Austrian regiment into a swamp, where two officers and 165 hussars surrendered "On August 22. in a big cavalry engagement en-gagement between Zloczow and Zbo-row, Zbo-row, against an enemy In superior forces, the Russian cavalrv took from the Austrlans two batteries of horse artillery and 100 prisoners Bridges of the river Sere are in the hands of tbe Russians." |