New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-09
RUSSIANS START
FURIOUSDRIVES
NORTH AND SOUTH
Lose Railway Junction in
Centre and Retreat in
GaliCia, However.
WOLKOWYSK FALLS
WITH $500 MEN
Germans Aiming at Possession
of Important Railways for
Winter Campaign.

London. Sept. s.-Almost simultan-
eously with the announcement that the
Car has personally replaced Grand
Duke Nicholas as commander of the
Russian forces, the fighting along the
eastern frontier, despite the beginning
OF the autumn rains, has been resumed
with the intensity which characterized
II throughout the summe. on both
wings, in Courand, in the north. and
in Nolhynia, Podolia and East Galicia.
In the fighting near Podkamien. on
the Russo-Galician frontier, and Radzi-
willow, in Russia, the Russians have
been forced TO retreat on front of
about ffty-six miles. according to the
Austrian official communication to-day.
In the south the Russians are making
determined efforts TO regain the initia-
tive, while in the centre the Austro-
Germans continue TO increase their ad-
vantage.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg and
his commanders in Courland are still
being denied their objective, the
Dvina River, while Field Marshal Won
Mackonsen and the Austrian generals
at the other end Of the line are en-
gagged in opposing the Russian often
sive. in the centre, on the other hand,
Lieutenant General Won Eichhorn and
Prince Leopold of Bavaria are push
ing forward. and, according to the
Berlin official report. have occupied
Wolkowysk. an important railway
junction Immediately east Of Bielo-
stok.
1t is for these railways that the
Germans are now fighting, as, when
the autumn rains turn a great part OF
the country INTO an impossible morass,
they will need every line of railway
TO keep their armies supplied with
provisions and munitions.
GERMAN OFFICIAL.
The text of the Berlin statement is
as follows:
Army group Ct Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg: In the region of DaId-
sewad NEAR FriedrichstadD our di-
visions are making further progress.
Troops of General Won Eichhorn's
army obtained possession of few
narrow strips of ground interesting
the lakes near Trokinowe, southwest
of Wilma, after some fighting.
Between Jeziory and Wolkowysk
our attack is making progress: VOL
kowysk itself and the hills east nd
north Of j: have been captured. $500
prisoners remaining in our hands,
together with four machine guns.
Army group of Prince Leopold of
Bavaria: The enemy has been de-
feated in the region OF lzabel l.,
southeast of Wolkowysk. Further
south this division is advancing to-
ward the tributaries Of the rivers
Zelkianka and Ruzanka.
Northeast of Pruzana, Austro-hun-
garian troops are forcing their way
northward through the marshes OF
that district. More than 1000 pris-
oners have been taken.
Army group or FleId Marshal 'oH
Mackensen: The battles on he
Jasiolda river and east of Drohiczyn
have not yet been decided.
Southeastern theatre of war: A
Russian counter-attack at Tarnapol
was repulsed. Further south, in the
region west of Ostrog, the enemy
advance was brought to a standstill
BY a cOunter-attack.
Tp-day's Russian official statement
announcing the defeat of two Ger
man divisions and the capture OF
$50 soldiers. thirty German cannon
and a number Of machine guns, is a
fabrication. No German soldiers re-
treated one step. and no cannon and
no machine guns have fallen into
the hands of the enemy. The coun-
tcr-attack by a German regiment re-
sulted in the advancing enemy being
driven back a considerable distance
One of our regiments took $50 prls-
Oners.