Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-28 | Page 1 | Retirement of Russian Army |

Type	issue
Date	1915-08-28
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Retirement of Russian Army
Type	article
Date	1915-08-28
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	1
OCR Text	Show RETIREMENT OF RUSSIAN ARMY Petrograd, Aug. 27, via London, Aug. 2S. 3:24 a, m. A Russian offi- : cial statement concerning the Austro-German Austro-German occupation of Brest-Lltovsk was given out tonight as follows: "General headquarters declares that the German report that Brest-Litovsk fell after an assault by Austro-Ger-man troops is inexact. For some time already it had been decided that to retain a garrison of 100,000 men in this fortress was not comformable with the Russian plans. Hence, war material useful to the enemy was removed re-moved in time and resistance was maintained on the left bank of the Bug solely to enable the army operating operat-ing in this region to retire eastward. When this retirement was completed, the fortifications and bridges were destroyed de-stroyed and the garrison rejoined the arjny In the field,"
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