Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-09-22
The European War Day by Day.

Russians Report Successes.
Petrograd, Sept. 17.-The Rus
| sian war Office has issued the follow
! ing:
southwest Of Dvinsk we repulsed
repeated German attacks close to Our
entanglements between the Dvinsk
road and Lake SamaSa. Detach-
ments OF German cavalry appeared in
| the region of the MolodetChno-Po-
| lotzk railway.
"Farther northwest Of Wilma the
enemy succeeded in crossing to the
left bank OF the Viliya. Southeast
Of Ornay The Germans are attempt
| ing to cross the River VerSovka,
where it enters Lake Tchanka. Near
the Village of Eismonty our troops
drove the enemy back into the river.
In the direction of Pinsk our
! troops are falling back under the en-
emy's pressure. In the district of
NijnisnoshOd we repulsed an enemy
! attack against Ugrintichi.
The enemy continues his counter
attacks in the Deranzo region and on
different parts Of our front in Cali
ca. Badly shaken, the enemy is
seeking by these counter attacks to
consolidate his positions, but these
efforts, even in the best circum-
stances, are followed only by small
! local successes and our troops con-
tinue successfully to fulfill their
tasks.
West Of the village OF Pendyki in
the DeranZo region we took 41O
prisoners and four machine guns. BY
the capture of a diStilery and a GEM
etery near Derazno we took over 700
prisoners and four machine guns, re-
pulsing deperate enemy counter at
tackS.
Near the village Of Novo Alexin-
ice, the town of Vichnevetz and on
O. the Strlpa' west OF the Tarnopol-
Trembowla line, we are engaged in
desperate actions in many places
against the enemy, who is clinging to
the fords of the river.
announces that we were repulsed to-
wards the bridgehead of Tarnopol
and suffered excessive losses near
| Tarnopol, but the enemy has no in
formation from which to Judge the
extent Of these losses, for the SIM
pie reason that in the fighting on the
| 10th and 1lth we held everything
The following days, in spite Of rein
turccm"0ts which arrived. me enc
ny WAS DRIVER o9ck s1}t farther .re.r
O. laruJpo. towards the villages of
'iiat&i and IeLroN and ey.a part o.
.1s ',Dr u. tie River S,rtpo
Paving Way ro1. &,auuaton.
London, Sept. IA dispatch
from Petrograd says:
THE fate Of Wilma hangs in the
/ balance. Reports say that cannon
! aiding is heard there without inter
ruption day and night. Bomb drop
ping aerOplanes are constant visitors.
Three have been brought down re-
Gently.
stitutions has been competed and
! factories are being removed. Thou
sands Of workmen have left. The
! price of various commodities has
doubled. Newspapers have suspend
ed publication"
Progress by Germans.
Berlin, Sept. 17.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's forces which have
! tlanked Wilma and Dvinsk, cutting the
railroad between those cities, have
made a further advance to the east.
! The war office announced to-day the
capture Of VidZy, about 35 miles
! south Of Dvinsk. The statement fol-
/ lows:
'Western theater: In the Cham
pagne we captured, by an attack with
hand grenades, n section Of a trench
in the outer positions of the French,
northwest OF Perthes. A counter
attack was repulsed.
Eastern theater: South of
Dvnsk we reached the Komai high
road. Vidzy was captured early this
morning after fierce fighting from
house to house.
Northwest and northeast of Wilma
our attack continued. The SzsZara
has been crossed near the place bear
, ing the same name.