From the Russian side of the theatre of war come
good news and bad news. It is evident that the Russians suffered a very severe reverse in East Prussia and lost guns and great numbers of prisoners—the Germans say eighty thousand, but that is almost certainly an exaggeration—and had a great many killed and wounded. The effect of the victory, how- ever, seems to have been local, and the invasion of East Prussia is still proceeding. On the Austrian frontier the reverse in Prussia has been entirely counteracted by what can only be described as a very great victory. The battle took place in the neighbourhood of Lemberg, and ended in the rout of five Austrian army corps, the capture of seventy thousand prisoners and two hundred guns, and the occupation of Lemberg itself. As the Times Military Correspondent says, this may very well herald the destruction of the whole Austrian Army in Galicia. Since this battle there have been further Russian successes in Austria, and news is now coming in which shows that in the great battle with the Servians the latter took forty thousand prisoners and sixty guns.
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