Peking, Nov. 17.
The following official telegram from Petrograd, dated November 16, has been handed to Reuter's Agency by the Russian Legation After the last engagements in the vicinity of Warsaw and Ivangorod, where we secured victoria the enemy began to rettest towards the German frontier, destroying most thoroughly all railways and macadamized roads. Along the railway the enemy blew up or burnt down the railway stations and other buildings and completely destroyed all the water towers, pumps and switches of which scarcely a vestige is left: rails were blown up and totally ruined and in several whole distriote the railways are only to be repaired by laying new rails everywhere.
Bridges, water pipes and viaducts without exception, even those of the smallest—_dimensior were 80 thoroughly blown up that it is impossible to repair them, consequently they had to be replaced by new ones. The bridges along the macao damized roads were destroyed in the same thorough manner, while the roads themselves were dug up and wires cut.
In view of these circumstances the pursuit of the enemy was greatly hampered, and to the west of the Vistula he succeeded in gradually eluding our attacks in his retreat towards his own territory. Having accomplished this, the Germans profited by their wonderfully developed network of railways and began to transport troops to the north with a. view to concentrating their forces againat our right wing. This comcentration was screened by a large force of cavalry, partly transported
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