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Show GERMAN TROOPS BEING SENT BACK Eight Army Corps, Withdrawn From France and Sent to Prussia, Being Returned. GREAT ARMY IN EAST Military Writers Puzzled Over' Evident Blunder of German Military Commanders. London. Sept. 17, 9 a. m. A Petrograd Petro-grad special dispatch to the Times says- "According to the latest information informa-tion available here the Germans, realizing real-izing the futility of the withdrawal of eieht army corps from their western front, are returning their first line of troops from cast Prussia west ward 'Military writers here are still puzzling over the problem why Germany Ger-many should have made the blunder of sending such an enormous army to cast Prussia when' it vas bound to remain either inactive or make an attempt to Invade Russia with the almost complete certainty of sharing the fate of the Austrian forces in Galicia. "The real explanation seems to be that when the half the population of east Prussia stampeded before General Gen-eral Rennenkampfl carrying the panic to Berlin, Germany, felt compelled to tranquilize the population by sending send-ing a great army to the area occupied by the Russians." Rome, via London. Sept 17, 10 20 a. ra. The Tribuna states that the German headquarters staff has adopted adopt-ed a new plan of campaign which consists of maintaining the defensive against the allies in the west while undertaking an offensive movement against the Russians, in which twelve German army corps will be employed. |