Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-08
Not Certain Whether Austrians
Will Turn Against Serbia or
Strike at Kiev to Men,
ace Rumania.
EARLY MOVE is EXPECTED
French Continue Violent Bonn
bardment of the German
Trenches-Russians Still
Falling Back.

London. Sept. 6.-Considerable mys-
terry has resulted from a message from
Vienna announcing that the German
and Austrian armies on the eastern
'front.' are preparing to part company.
The statement that yester-
day Field Marshal Archduke Frederick.
armies bade official farewell to Field
Marshal Won Mackensen. the German
commander at Brest-Litovsk. Hence
forth, it was stated. the two command
ers were to cease cooperating.
The message says it Is believed the
Austrian armies that nave been OPP
Grating in Poland shortly will be owe
in the direction of Serbia.
May Erive at Kiev.
Military experts are divided In their
opinion as to whether the Teutons will
strike al the Balkans next or advance
on Kiev and Odessa in an attempt to
project q wedge between the Russian
armies and Rumania. The parting OF
the German and Austrian commanders
at Brest-Litovsk yesterday is though
to be significant of early developments
in one of the two fields.
Petrograd in its latest statement, adj
mits a retirement of the Russians to
the north bank of the Dvina in the Sec
tor where the desperate struggle to
protect Riga and the road to Petro-
grad is in progress.
Riga Defenders Firm.
North of Wilma, where the German
lines have apparently made little
progress of late. the Russians claim to
have continued offensive operations
and to have gained ground against the
Germans. with the capture of more
h a a dozen machine guns and 800
prisoners.
German troops fighting toward the
D,,r,SD- ~o~ 80 DS~n k~,,- ,v-r~ - S~k
able victory in the capture Of the
Bridgehead at Friederichstadt, on the
River Dvina. about 40 miles from Riga,
German army headquarters announced
today.
Petrograd yesterday admitted that
the Russians had withdrawn across the
Dvina at a point near Linden after a
stubborn battle.
In taking the Friederichstadt position
the Germans captured more h $500
prisoners, including 81 officers.
All the forts Of Grodno are now in
SLAMS are r%etreating eastward. They
left six heavy guns to the Germans,
while 2,700 of their men were taken
prisoners.
Paris, Sept. 4.-Particularly violent
artillery engagements took place yes
terday to the northeast and to the
south of Arras and at other points be-
tween the Disc and the Aisne, accord
ing to announcement made today by
the French war office.
.French Fire Violent.
Military observers abroad incline to
the belief h a h persistent lombard
ment of Germant positions pressages
an offensive movement by the entente
allies in the west.
The text of the French communities
ton follows:
--kN1~-..
ments of particular violence to the
northeast and to the south of Arras.
in the sectors Of Rollincourt, Wailly
and B~retencourt. as we'll as between
the Disc and the Aisne in the region Of
Quennevieres and near NouvrOn.
I'm the e%nvirons Of Vauquois we ex-
ploded several mines. which seriously
damaged the works of the enemy.
There is nothing to report from the
remainder of the 'front.'"