New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-02
RUSSIAN ATTACKS
HALT FOES DRIVE
Berlin Reports Gains Only
at Dvinsk and i'm
VOlhynia.
CARS FORCES NOW
STRAIGHTEN FRONT
Hindenburg's Thrust at Minsk
Ended, Say Petrograd
Officials.

London. Oct. l.-On the eastern
front the Russians are Offering a
strong resistance to the German at
tacks, which seem TO have weakened.
Except in front Of Dvinsk and in Vol
hynia the Teutons claim no progress.
Between those two points ard in Ga
licia. according 20 Berlin official re-
port. all the attacking is being done
by the Russians.
The Russian troops, by countering
the attack which Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg launched at Minsk from
the northwest, have succeeded pretty
we'll in Strengthening out their line
from north to south.
The PetroGrad core pendent Of Reu-
ter's Telegram Company sends the fol
lowing:
Military writer's, in the light Of the
latest dispatches. are of the opinion
that the great German thrust east Of
Svyentsyany con the main line of the
Warsaw-V Wilma Dvinsk Petrograd rail
road may be considered at an end.
The enemy being forced back toward
the Dvinsk-Vilna railway, the Russians
are strengthening out their front to
the south of Dvinsk and west of vi
leika, and in general the enemy's often
sive from Riga to the Pinsk region has
been arrested. II is pointed out with
satisfaction that the enemy, although
greatly reinforced. apparently has been
unable to follow up the recapture of
Lutsk."
In the course of the fighting in Sep
TENDER, $4,000 Russians, thirty-seven
cannon and PCS machine guns were
taken by the Germans, according to
statement made by the War Office IN
Berlin to-day.
GERMAN OFFICIAL.
The statement issued by German
Army Headquarters says:
Army group of Field Marshal Won
Hndenburg. west of Dvinsk, near
Grendsen, another position Of the
enemy was stormed.
During the battles east OF Miadzi-
lol and on he front between
Smorgon and Wischnew Russian at
tacks broke down with heavy losses.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
army group took 1850 prisoners yes
terday.
Army group of Prince Leopold:
The enemy repeated his fruitless at
tacks. All his advances were re-
pulsed and six officers, 494 men and
six machine guns fell into our hands.
Army group Of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen: The .ituation Is UNI
changed.
Army group of General Won Lin
singer: Our attack is progressing.
The number of prisoners taken by
German troops in the east during
September and the amount of booty
captured are 421 officers, 95,464 men,
thirty-seven cannon, 29S machine
guns and one aeroplane.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL.
The following official communication
was issued at Vienna to-day:
In East Galicia there Is nothing
Of Importance to report.
A Russian attack near Novo Alex
iniec collapsed before our infantry
fire. On the Ikwa and in the Vol
hynian triangle fortress region the
situation is unchanged.
On the Kormin Rivulet the Austro-
Germans have again gained ground.
Russian counter-attacks there were
repulsed. During one Of these
counter attacks Austro German
squadrons captured two officers. 400
men and one machine gun. In the
battles of the last two days in this
district we took altogether ten Of
fcers and 2,400 men prisoners.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL.
The War Office at Petrograd tonight
made public the following official com
munication:
German attacks in the region of