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Show If RUSSIAN RETREAT CONTINUES; GERMANS TAKE IMPORTANT HILL j i Many Prisoners Fall Into the Hands of the Teutons in Their i Great Drive Defeat of German Fleet in Riga Bay Grows in Magnitude Rumania Ready to ?, Enter the War. I . i f Berlin, Aug. 24, via London, 4 : 05 p. m. A hill at Kopy- i tow, to the southwest of the Russian fortress of Brest-Litvosk, ; has been stormed by the Teutonic forces, according to an of- J ficial statement given out today by the German army head- 1 quarters. ) Cologne, Aug. 24, via London; 6:05 p. m. According j to the Cologne Gazette the railways of Rumania have received I orders to place all rolling stock at the disposition of the minis- . ter of war, on September 1 4. Berlin, Aug. 24, by wireless to Sayville. The German admiralty today announced that a German submarine had i torpedoed and sunk a Russian auxiliary ship at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. ;; A Russian auxiliary ship has been ' torpedoed and sunk at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, the German admiralty announced. The Teutonic armies are closing in further upon Brest-LUovsk, German army headquarters head-quarters recording the capture of a hill at Kopytow, southwest of the Russian fortress. Further progress by the Austro-' Austro-' Germans against the Russians in all the fields of operations, except to the north of the NIemen, in the Bal-rt Bal-rt tic provinces, Is claimed by Berlin. H The capture of 8100 additional Russian Rus-sian prisoners and seventeen ma-i ma-i chine guns Is reported. ' , The French have succeeded, deL spite many counter attacks by the t Germans, in retaining the grqundre. 'ehflywon'on' the 'he'igfits in the '.' Vosges, Paris claims. Berlin concedes 'i the loss of but a single trench section sec-tion in the severe fighting in this re-1 re-1 gion recently. The German army staff declares no material damage was done by the ; , bombardment of Zeebrugge by a Brlt-: Brlt-: ' ish fleet The casualties of 'the Ger-A Ger-A mans were one killed and six wound-f wound-f ' ed. while three Belgian civilians were 1 wounded by stray shots, It is stated. i: London, Aug. 24, 11:59 a, m. The j latest details concerning the Riga ! naval battle have failed to clear up :' the situation. Petrograd advices - ; make it appear certain that the Ger- j mans met with a serious reverse, al- A though official Berlin reports remain ) Biient concerning uiu xvusaian uiuon. )' : The Russians now state that an ad- i1 ditional cruiser must be added to i i those alreadv reported sunk or put r out of action. Whether the German I ; battle cruiser by a British submarine ; was sunk remains to be told, the of- i' ficial report from Petrograd having V given no details beyond stating that ; - she was torpedoed. ' . Except for the report from the ma- i rine ministry at Paris, concerning the t- sinking of a German patrol boat off , -, Ostond which is admitted by Berlin, - no official news has been received i of the results of the allied bombard-5 bombard-5 t mcnt of Gorman positions on the I : Belgian coast, I - The Russian armies have noL stop- Ied the Austro-German advance, alls al-ls , l though they are compelling the cen- i ' tral powers to fight for every step won. Severe encounters continue bc-"i bc-"i fore Brest-Litovsk. but the Baltic I ' campaign is making little progress, ' although a decisive stroke there by I Field Marshal Von Hiudenburg has J, been long expected. 'I On the western front, with the exit ex-it ceptlon of an. Infantry attack, which i is said to have won for the French 3 some German trenches in the Vosges, II j the warfare Is marked by compara-ijj compara-ijj -j lively Ineffectual artillery, mine and ii i bomb combats. Ifi I I : Germans Are Repulsed. It Paris, Aug. 24, 2? 25 p. m. The re French war office this afternoon gave ft out a statement on the progress of Id : hostilities reading as follows: ie "last night saw some artillery cn- gagcmonts in the sector to the. north of Arras, between the Sommo and the I ', Oise, and also in the Argonne. lelll "In lne Vosges there were yester- A day some very violent encounters on -M the heights situated to the east of the river Fecht and to the north of the Schratzmannele. In spite of several counter attacks, the enemy found it impossible to recapture the ground they had lost. Equally on the Barren-kopf Barren-kopf we retained the advantages won during the evening of August 22. "The Germans have delivered another an-other attack against our trenches on the crest of Sondernach, but they were repulsed." GERMANY WILL APOLOGIZE. London, Aug. 24. 2:54 a, m. Germany's Ger-many's reply to Denmark's protest , against the firing on ilie British sub- J marine E-13 by a German torpedo boat while the E-13 lay grounded on 'the Danish islands of Saltholm, will bcan.unrf.seryed. apology, according To Infonnation received by the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company's correspondent corre-spondent in Copenhagen. Fourteen of the British sailors are said to have been killed in the attack. i Shells for Russians. Paris, Aug. 24, 4:40 r m. The mobilization mo-bilization of Russia's industrial resources, re-sources, the Matin says, is so far perfected that within a few weeks the factories of the country will be able to produce 200,000 shells a day In addition to those which arc imported. TRAWLER SUNK. Loudon. Aug. 24, 11:50 a. m. Three men lost their lives by the sinking of a trawler from Hull, it was announced an-nounced today. The other members of the crow were rescued. |