Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-18
GERMANS DRIVE
NEW WEDGE into
RUSSIAN DEFENSE
Occupy Vidzy, Twenty Miles
East of Dvink-ViIna
Railway.
Won HINDENBURG's ARMY
WELL ASTRIDE THAT LINE
Wilma Left to Forces Which Will
Only Attempt to Delay
Tcutonic Advance.
LITTLE CHANGE ELSEWHERE
Great Effort to Hold Galicia Doubt
less Dictated by Near East
pntifirc
Won HINDENBURG'S ARMY
WELL ASTRIDE THAT LINE
LITTLE CHANGE ELSEWHERE
Great Effort to Hold Gaiicia Doubt
less Dictated by Near East
ern Politics.

LONDON. September 17.-Feld Mar
sh;,l Won Hindcnburg's army now is
well astride the Dviusk- Wilma railway,
his advance guards having reached and
occupicd the town of Nidzy, which is a
good twenty miles east OF the line
This wedge which the German COM
nander has driven into Russia's de-
Tense seriously endangers both Dvinsk
and Wilma. The latter town, which the
Russians once before evacuated again
has been left TO an army which will
attempt only to delay the German ad-
vance.
MI government institutions and most
of the factories already have been re-
moved to places Of safety. and the civil
population left .onE ago. Probably n
more determined effort will be made to
hold Dvinsk, which can offer a stronger
resistance.
NOT MUCH CHANGE
ELSEWHERE IN EAST
.\lonG the rest of the eastern front
there has been little change in the
situation. Tho German center has
',ladc Il further slight advance, and
must he nearing the railway cast of
'insk. possession Of which would sepa-
rate the northern and southern wings
OF The Russian "rmicS orcrating on
either side of the I'r;pct marshes The
russians always have affected to dis
regard such II contingency, however,
claiming Tie two armies are able tn
operate Independently OF each other
hnh r"ntinuc their offensive from a
point east OF kovel, through Galicia,
to the Roun,anian frontier.
The great effort 10 hold the present
l 4 l,.,..
Near Eastern politics., which grow
'hore complicated as the days pass
itoumania alone appears TO be definite
~ OH the side of the quadruple en-
tente. Greece apparently has decided
to maintain her neutrality for the time
being. at any rate.
Meanwhile, the allied troops on the
Gailipo'i Peninsula are taking a long
rest which is only occasionally dis
turbed by Turkish artillery.
REPETITION OF ARTILLERY
ENGAGEMENTS IN WEST
In the west there has been only a
repetition of artillery cnglgemeuts
with the novelty of II German grenade
attack near Perthes. which the Ger
man report says, gave them possession
or Il portion of a French trench.
England is absorbed in the rumorcd
cabinet crisis over the question of con-
Scription. to which il is reported David
Lilo. Il George and Winston Spencer
Churchill have been converted. Lords
CurIon and l-anSdowne. Andrew Bonar
Law. Walter Hume Long, j.. Austin
Chamberlain, the Earl OF Selborne and
Sir Edward Carson. the conscriptionis t
members. are said 10 be threatening to
resign unless Premier Asquith, First
Lord of the Admiralty Balfour, Sir Ed
ward Grey. Lord Kitchener and other
Cabinet members adopt their chosen
policy.
Lacking positive statements from
Premier Asputh and Lord Kitchener
that compulsory service is necessary
for the safety OF the country. the sys-
ten is likely to find little support In
the present Parliament, with the Radi-
Gals. l-aboritcs and Nationalists op-
posed TO it, Many members opposed
TO conscription are prepared to accept,
however. the verdict of the Premier
and War Secretary on the question,
which now is a subject OF serious con-
Sidcration in the Ca biret