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Show j Germany Not to Sink Passenger J i I Ships Without Submarine Warning I HEAVY LOSSES . if Germans Have Captured i . Over One Million 1 Russians. : 300,000 CASUALTIES I In Four Months the ;( Power of the Czar in Has Been Broken. 1 Berlin, Sept. 1, by wireless to Say- i ville. An official review of the east- ; ern campaign as given out here to- 'i day by the Overseas News agency es- 1 i timates that since May 2, the Rus- 'i sians have lost at least 300,000 men 1 In killed or wounded, and 1,100,000 men captured by the Germans. R ' The announcement from the Over- t K seas agency is as follows: . Hi "General army headquarters pub- , fi' lishes a review of the results of of- E fensive movements in Poland and . Russia since May 2, beginning with i fl the battle at Gorllce. Array head- '8 ouarters estimate the strength of the f !(, Russian troops which were then di- i h, rectly engaged in that region was I about 1,400 000. In the fighting since Vf May 2 1.100 000 have been captured ' I and a minimum of 300,000 wounded j SI; or killed. This is a very conserva- j. Ill tive estimate. The actual figures are j ll surely much higher, because the Rus- ffl alans saved artillery by recklessly C f . sacrificing their infantry. Tt Is thus I c i evident that the armies, which were ij first attacked at the beginning of the I'f Austro-German offensive movement, tj havo been annihilated and their loss- i ps made up by withdrawing troops flj from other regions, especially forces j a which were ready to invade Turkey. H, j "Garrisons of half drilled men werf ' S i hurriedly transported to the front T from interior fortresses. All efforts j of the Russians were fruitless, how- VR ever. They were driven out of Ga- jfffl I Ilcia, Poland. Courland and Lithuania. j' ! They were rolled backward in two Ui separate groups. Twelve fortresses. r, among them four large and modern JH ones, which formed the Russian our- j( er and Inner lines of defense, are in J j the hands of the Germans and Aus- M trians This is the result of a cam- $ paign of less than four months." jH oo Wfi |