Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — BIG BATTLE IN PRUSSIA [ARTICLE]

BIG BATTLE IN PRUSSIA

German Government Stops All Train Traffic to Public. Russians Now Occupy All of Galicia Except Two Western Forts—- ’ Przemysl Is Invested. Copenhagen, via London. Sept. 25. — It is learned here that the German government stopped all traffic of civil passengers in East Prussia owing to the fact that a great battle was in progress and the Russian army was advancing from that direction toward Breslau. London. Sept. 25. — A Central News dispatch from Petrograd of this data savs: “The Russian advance guards already are before the Austrian fortress of Cracow.” Adding detailed information to tins announcement, a rad dispatch j reaching London by vay of the Messagero at Rome says: “All of Galicia, except Przemysl and Cracow, has been cleared of Austrian trops, and the Russians are ms. sed far west of Tarnow. Russian cavalry has penetrated to every part of Galicia, meeting practically no resistance.” Another Petrograd dispatch announces that the Germans are retreating from East Prussia for the purpose of strengthening the Posen defenses. A dispatch from Petrograd says: "The Germans are rapidly retreating from East Prussia, and the Russians. pursuing, have recaptured the town of Soldau, and have establisehd a firm line froin Warsaw north to the Baltic. That line by its mere existance prevents the Germans from flanking the Russian central army in Its westward march. "In Galicia the Russian advance forces have already reached Cracow, Przemysl is invested and is being bombarded, and Cracow at the worst cannot do more than engage a portion of the Russian forces. It Is a military impossibility now that the Russian central army should be flanked either on its right or on its left. The enemy has no alternative but a frontal resistance. The preliminary maneuvers now have been completed. all of them, and the Russian armies, with assembled and strategically placed forces, are ready now to proceed without further delay to carry out the czar's terse order: " ‘Proceed to Berlin.’ ”