Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-20
RUSSIAN STATEMENT.

PETROGRAD. September 10. via Lon
don. September 70:
West OF Dvinsk and in the region OIL
the lakes stubborn lighting contlh-
ues. Violent enemy attacks IN the re-
gion of Illukst were repulsed' ana
the enemy was thrown back on HIS
trenches. with heavy losses.
Following very violent artillery prep
arations the enemy attacked ana oc-
eupied the village of Siocikn' IN inc
region west of Illukst
In the region between Lakes Tchitch1a-
vet and Oville the enemy made SUD
den attacks against the village OF
Imbrody Our intrenchments were
destroyed and the detachments oE
cupying them thrown back. Enemy
cavalry which attempted to cross the
River Driswiatitsa, in the region OF
Lake Boginskoia, between houPi-
chiki and koziany, was thrown pack.
-: ed to occupy Molodetchno station,
but was repulsed-
In a fight near the village OF Scly. on
the Novo Nileisk-Molooetchho ran
way. the enemy was dislodSed from
the village. In many places on the
middle Viliya river. in the region OF
Wilma. Germans crossed to the lett
bank.
Numerous enemy attacks on the front
west of Trencon. on the Biyankonl-
Ida railway, were repulsed, with Sc
we're enemy losses.
On the right bank of the Lebeda there
were some engagements of local
character. Fighting occurred ar
many places on the Sharia river 1or
possession of the river crossings
Near Poretchie. north of Slon1m, our
artillery destroyed the enemys pom
q: toon bridge. the greater part OF
. which sank, and enemy troops max
!. ing a crossing were taken prisoners;
Enemy troops which crossed south OF
Slonim and near the Richtchltcna
farm have been attacked.
We profited by the necessity OF the
enemy to launch attacks by small
detachments.
The enemy maintains the territory he
occupied on the right bank of the
river. but he sustained appreciable
: losses in the fighting. in which
great number of Germans were bayo-
neted.
The village of Logichine, in the same
region. has been occupied by the en-
q: envy.
A fortified position of the enemy near
!. Novoseitry, northeast of Olti. was at
tackled on the front. and the enemy
was dislodged. Our troops in pur-
suit extinguished a fire on a bridge
F.. lighted. Part of our forces again
turned the enemy in their retreat
and forced them TO flee into the
forest. We occupied the village of
koIki
On the west front. between the River
StDbela and the line from Dubno to
KfomonoZ, our troops attacked the
enemy in many places and recap
tured parties of prisoners for we
strove to take advantage of disorders
which have become frequent in the
enemy's ranks
On the Sereth front engagements local
=; in character continued in the imme-
diate vicinity of the river. Near the
. village of Dakovitch, on the Stru-
meni river south of Pinsk, one of our
. attachments was seen holding back
a German battalion with machine
gun fire. 1t annihilated about two
, companies of the enemy.
In the region of Kolki our cavalry
: charged the enemy's intrenchments
and captured several machine guns
and about a hundred prisoners. re-
ceiving only insignificant losses
return. Near the village of Kukli.
north Of Kolki. a squadron of our
men chased an Austrian squadron
into the marshes. took fifty prison
ers. captured a number of field
kitchens and saved from the marshes
some fifty horses. The rest Of the
. horses persisted.
According to the testimony Of Aus:
trian prisoners there were cases dur
) ing the recent operations wherein
detachments Of the enemy remained
in one spot for several days. unable
to extrieate their artillery from the
On the stokhold are reported cases Of
Austrians Disgusting themselves as
peasants in order to cross the river
for the purpose of Installing ma
chine guns.
September 10 there was cannonading
and rife firing in the coastal region
of the Caucasus.
IN the direction Of oqti. in the region
of Christaspor ana Bee. our patrols
carried out successful reconnois-
sances.
In the direction Of Aoutak our detach-
ments engaged the Turks in the re-
gion of Chirvancheikr and Mitoan.
In the region of Van our cavalry ex-
the village Of Kastan and near the
mountain Of Kalerch
TURKISH STATEMENT.
coNsrANTINOPLE. September 70. via
London:
Our accommodating parties near Ana
farta Saturday night drove away
. similar parties Of the enemy and
successfully threw bombs into the
enemy's trenches.
Our artillery successfully bombarded
Saturday the enemys camp near Ke-
mike Liman.
Near Seddul Bahr our artillery si1enced
the enemy's guns which had bonn
barded the center OF our positions.
Our accommodating detachments ap-
preached the trenches of the enemy
near kereviEedere. which was sue
cessfully attacked with bombs
tackled with bombs.