The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-09-15
SlAVS HOLDING
GERMAN CHECK
Austro-Rungarians Try TO
Strike Blow.
RUSS KEEP UP OFFENSIVE
Teutons Make Little or No Progress
Toward Their Main Objective, Riga
Russians Take $500 Prisoners
and Destroy Battalion.

London. Sept. 13.-The Russian war
Office official statement, an exhaus-
tive resume, covering practically
every essential sector of the front in
Galicia, Poland and Russia proper,
permits of but one conclusion, that
the czar's forces are no longer CON
tinuously retreating," but that they
have made a determined stand, vir-
tually along the whole front, checking
the onrush of the Austro-Hungarian
armies almost everywhere and push
ing thus far a successful offensive in
Galicia.
That strip of Galicia, which is still
in Russian hands, continues to be the
scene. of most furious fighting, with
the Slavs evidently retaining the up
per hand as attackers. The Russian
victory at Tarnopol several days ago.
although contradicted by Berlin, can
be longer not doubted since the official
Austrian war Office statement admit
ted 1t. The official Russian resume
reafirms the success, giving full de-
tails as to the booty taken. 1t is as
serted that an entire Austro-German
battalion was destroyed and that the
Russians took on Dec 10, thirty-one
officers and twenty-five hundred men
as prisoners, capturing also sixteen
guns.
Only at one point does the official
Russian war bulletin admit success
on the part of the Teutonic adversar-
les, namely, in the district east of
Vilkomir, northeast of the captured
fortress of Kovno, and not far from
the ADMINISTRATORS railroad.
Here, the Austro-Germans with the
aid Of strong field and siege artillery,
are advancing thus far without check,
the statement declares.
AS for the rest or the entire front,
however, Petrograd, in summing up
the situation, asserts the Austrians
and Germans have been "dashing
| from one part of the line to the other
! in an effort to strike a decisive blow"
But If the Teutonic allies had their
/ miads upon certain principal objects,
| such as Riga, Petrograd, Moscow,
| Odessa, Vilna-the sudden turn of the
Russians, reinforced and supported
| by apparently adequate communica-
tions, is bound to result in sweeping
changes in. the Teutonic plan, and
optimistic critics here predict the
complete Illustration of the main pro-
be able to make good their gains of
the last few days.
| Little importance Is attached by ex-
perts here to the appearance of Ger
man submarines in the Black sea, fol-
lowed, according to the Russian state
ment, by the dispatching of torpedo
craft to combat the submersibles.
From both the Russian and the Ger
man statements it is evident that the
Germans have made little or no prog
ress toward what is generally believed
is for the present their main objec-
tive. Riga.
Berlin claims success on the Me
men, between Duna and Moicz, say
ing that 1900 prisoners and five ma
chine guns were taken.
There appears to be no let up in the
bombardment which both sides have
conducted on the western front for
the past two weeks. Neuville, in the
region north of Arras, is the center
about which the most vigorous cam
nonading has centered in the past
twenty-four hours, but artillery fight
ing Of almost equal violence is report
ed from various points along the
front, north of the Aisne, in Cham
payne, between the Noselle and the
Bois de Mortmare, on the Lorraine
front.
The infantry of both sides has seen
action also in the fighting in the Neu-
vile sector, where hand grenades
were used, at Sapigneul, where an
other German attack has been re-
pulsed, and to the south of Lientrey,
where the French artillery and rife
fire stopped a German assault
German aeroplanes dropped bombs
In Compiegne and French aircraft
bombarded the aeroplane sheds at
Brayelle.