New Britain herald., 1915-09-18
RUSSIANS OUTLINE
 LOCAL SUCCESSES Official Despatch Tells of Fighting
 on South Of Battle Line 2,ooo PRISONERS TAKEN Attacks on Several Villages RepnIsod
Attacks on Several Villages Repulsed -Janovka and Pzlaw Retaken- Germans Develop Attacks in Region of Wilma.

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 Petrograd, Sept. IF, via London. Sept. IS, 3:23 d. m.-An official state ment issued today. at the war office said:
 Near the village of Jakoubovzi between the village of Novyidver and Lida Cat the junction of the Vilna- Rovno and Siedlce-Polotsk railroad lines) all the German attacks were repulsed. The enemy rAached the River Stchara, attacked us near the village of the same name and crossed to the right bank.
 During the enemy offensive along the railway from Kobrin to Minsk engagements occurred near Noloko- vitcnni station west of Pinsk. In the course of a fight for possession of Derazno we again had a great suc- cess. Our troops precipitated them selves on the town and drove the en- emy headlcng towards the village of Roudikrasnovie having taken the lat ter place by assault. We took two thousand prisoners and four machine guns.
 Counter Attack on Gontova.
 "Cur counter attack on the frontier village of Gontova, southwest of the town of Vlshnivets, although it did not result in the capture of the vil- lage enabled us to take prisoner twelve officers and $40 men with three machine guns.
 'In engagements in the region east of the village of Baboulinze on the Stripa, and towards the north of Boutchony we took prisoner fourteen officers and eight hundred men. We occupied the villages of Yanovka and Pzlaw northeast of Boutchany.s The enemy having abandoned them, re- treated in disorder.
 By bold actions on the whole front towards the south of the region of kovno our troops continue success fully to check the development of local counter artacks, which in sev eral sectors are made by formidable enemy forces.
 Region of Riga.
 "In the region of Riga there were engagemen of small attachments on the River Ekrau and at some places on the western bank of the Dvina be- tween Jacobstadt and Dvinsk. Ene- my attacks west and southwest of Dvinsk continue. The enemy offen- sive between the Dvinsk road and Lake Samava was repulsed by our artillery fire. Tn the skirmish north of Svientsyany near the village of Davgelischki the latter village re- mained in the possession of the ene- my.
 Tn the region of Wilma and east of that point there was stubborn fight ing which already had taken some time in developing. To the left of the Viliya, between the branch rail- way lines from Wilma to Novo Svien- tsyany, Molodechno and Vileiki ene- my detachments at some places reached the Novo Vileisk- Nolodschno railway. In many places in this re- zion and in the region of Lakes Mod- ziol, Noratch and Svir, southeast of Svientsyany engagements occurred with strong attachments of cavalry. The Germans are developing vigorous alta cks in the direction of Wilma, southeast of Meichagolo.
 Southeast of, Orany repeated ene- my attacks against the villages of Eisnouty and Datziohki were re- pulsed. South of Datzicnki, after stubborn fighting. the Germans suc- ceeded in occupying the village of Rodziuny.'