Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-06
TEUTON ADVANCE
SUFFERS A CHECK;
ENEMY IN SWAMPS
Fighting Continues on FIanks,
But Central Operations
Come to a StandstiII.
RUSSIANS MAKING STAND
IN PREPARED POSITIONS
Berlin Admits That at Some Points
They Have Assumed Partial
Offensive.
BREST-LlT0VSK IS NO MORE
City Which Contained 5000 Inhab-
itants Destroyed by Retreat,
ing Army Of the
Gear.
RUSSIANS MAKING STAND
IN PREPARED POSITIONS
BREST.LITovSK IS NO MORE

LONDON, September E, 1891
|p.m.-Fighting on both wings of
the eastern front proceeds with
much greater vigor than the
struggle in the center, where the
invaders apparently are having
difficulties in trackless swamps.
In the south, near the Galician
border, fortune fuctuates, first
one side and then the other
claiming successes. The main
offensive, however, still lies with
the Austrians and Germans.
Battle Without Results.
On the north flank Field Marshal Won
Hfndenburg now holds the Dvina
oridgehead at Fredrichstadt. but has
lost that at Lennewada, farther down
the river toward Riga. The battle in
that region continues without decisive
results.
Russia has corrected earlier reports
concerning the attempt of the Germans
to make a landing at Pernau. confirm
ing Berlin's statement that instead Of
losing vessels as the result of attacks
by the Russians. the Germans inten-
tionally sank several sn1al steamers to
block the entrancs- to the Gulf of Riga.
The deduction is made that the Ger
mans feared the Russians would land
there sufficiently strong forces to
threaten Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg's left flank.
Russians in New Positions.
BERLIN, via London, September g.
The Tageblatt's correspondent at the
Austrian headquarters wires that the
Russians are resting on trackless
swamps and taken prepared positions
a hundred kilometers (about seventy
five miles) northeast of Brest Ltovsk
on the Sagfodje chain of hills and along
the Jasiolda river. where they are
stubbornly opposing the Austrians' at
tempt to cross the river.
A similar situation exists in the Vol
hynian fertilization triangle, where.
despite the loss of Lutsk and Austrian
attacks from the south and west, the
Russians are endeavoring by cleverly
laid outfeld fortifcations to defend
Eubno and Rovno territory. The con-
centration of their forces, resultant on
their retreat, even enabled them to as
sumo a partial offensive. which, while
beaten of, nevertheless is retardfng
| he n
Forge Steadily Ahead.
Among the news items given out by
the Overseas News Agency is the fol-
lowing:
The bitter fighting in the swampy
ground east of Brest-Litovsk is near
ing an end. The Germans are forging
steadily ahead. despite the great diffi-
Guilty of forcing a passage through tho
marshes The entire region is envel-
oped in a heavy fog.
Emperor William has visited Cracow.
Galicia (for centuries the capital of
the kingdom of Poland), and was cor
daily received by the population. He
inspected some of the churches and the
famous Polish library"
Brest-Litovsk Wiped Out.
ROTTERDAM. via London, septem-
ber 6.-"Brest-Litovsk. which was a
city of $4,000 Inhabitants. exists no
more" says the correspondent Of the
Rotterdamsche Courant. who entered
the Russian fortress with the Austro-
Hungarian advance guard which cap
tured 1t.
The nearer we approached to the
town the clearer it was shown that the
Russians had done all they said they
would do. The whole town was a sea
of fire. There was not one street
saved
1--WE were unable to find living soul
In the flaming city except a father
and mother with their children in an
open space. The man said he had
paid Cossack sixty roubles to be al
lowed to remain. When the town was
empty of it's Inhabitants the Russians
ordered the houses destroyed. Brsst-
Litovsk vanished like the little viii
lagos on the road leading to it."
Russians Cross the Dvina.
PETROGRAD. September 5. via Lon
don, September 6.-The Germans hav-
ing set fire to the bridges over the
Dvina in the region of Friedrichstadt.
and with reinforoements started a
movement to force a crossing, the Rus
sians according to an official communi-
cation issued today. have crossed to