The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-18

codnter attacks failed and on Septem- Der 10 the Russians began to fall back on their main position retreatins in good order and we'll covered
 The Russian aftf1leT-y, on the right wing, appears to have, made a good re- treat owing to timely start while the left wing was hard pressed by the enveloping German infantry From this wing the Russians retreafed across the border in two columns while the main body went northward and the others in an easterIy direc- tions pursued by the Germans, who advanced far from the border
 The German government has ap-' pointed Count Won Merveldt as gover- nor of the Russian province of SuaIh and other points occupied by them.
 The University of Koenfgsberg to- day conferred upon General Won Hin. denberg honorary doctors degrees from all four d@ the departments of Philosophy. theology, law and medd- cine.
 The Berfiner Tageblatt prints the foliowing regarding the operations in the west.
 We are standing on the defensive on a 125 mile battle line and because we have been spoiled by a rapid series : of victories many are unable to realize that 8 defensive, under certain cir cumstances, Is as justified as an offen-
 We have learned little concerning the situation but we can point to some successes such as the repulse of the French night attacks and the fact that the French have succeeded neither In outfIanking the retiring right nor breaking through the front. The abandonment of our original positions between Paris and Yerdun for strate- gic reasons is in itself nothing mo- mentous.''
 Tn many days of battle and shifting positions final results alone are i'm portant So long as the battle con tinues undecided. with the possibility of fresh troops drawing near, the enemy has exhausted himself by re- peated attacks, German chances are better than those of the Anglo FFsnch.s'
 Captain scheickert, the correspond ent Of the I4okaI An1eiger, describes the action in Hast Prussia on Septem- ber 10 as follows:
 Our heavy Howitzer batteries To- cated on the extreme right wing bonn barded the entrenchments and bomb terrible effect and from this position we could watch the progress Of the battle easily with field glasses; but we, too. caught the big notes of the battle music.
 .-The battle ealvos Of the Russians came in shortening intervals and between rolled the infantry fire now in vol1eys and then irregu1ar1y. Mean while the hard rattle of the machine guns on the edge e the forest had a, deafening sense, adding long runs of notes to the concert
 'sThe Russian shrapnel, meanwhile burst too high or too low near our batteries; but the Russians after a while got the range and over our bat teries soon flew fragments of the iron shower bath intended for us Soon our batteries increased their fire until the heavens seemed afire while on the horizon the villages broke out in flames
 Through the field glass I observed dark masses moving across the fields. It was the we'll extended German in- fantry advancing with extraordinary speed. Altogether too high over them exploded shrapnels and from the north came infantry fire which soon was silent.
 .tAt 1:45 in the afternoon the Rus sian shrapneI fire reached it's maxi mum violence and then followed a cessation of all fire for 10 minutes and then again the fire was opened. At 2:15 the Russian fire stopped with our men advancing as rapidly as possible and a little wfile. afterwards the effect of our flank noVement. behind Loetzen made itself felt"