New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-07
Concerted Move by Land
and Sea Reported 10
Be Under Way.
HINDENBURG'S ARMY
MAKES NO PROGRESS,
Mackensen and Prince Leopold
Push On - AustrianS
Claim Gains.

London, Sept. 6.-The menace 20 Riga
is becoming more serious. The Ter
mans still hold the br.dgehead at
Friedrichstadt, cutting of Riga's rail-
wav communication to the south, while
German aircraft are active IN the guli'
nerLaps presaging another naval clash
and concerted movement from land
and sea to complete the isolation OF
tho city and force It's abandonment.
Berlin dispatches say that German
warships have again entered the Iuli
Of Riga The Russian ships, it is re-
ported, have been forced 10 Zee The
Cars forces these statements declare,
have abandoned Dagoc, the northern
most of the three ISLANDS. Just outside
the gulf. ali,
of attacks at the entrance TO the Guil
of Riga by German seaplanes, when
dropped bombs on Russian torpedo
boats and were driven off by gunnre.
Russia has corrected earlier reports
concerning the attempt OF the Germans
to make a landing at Pernau, conhrm.
ING Berlir's statement that instead OF
losing vessels as the result OF attacks
by the Russians the German intention
ally sank several small steamers 20
block the entrance 70 the Gult OF Riga
The deduction is made that the Ger
mans feared the Russians would lana
there sufficiently strong forces TO
threaten Field Marshal Won linden
burg's left flank.
To-day's Berlin official communica'
ton Laws no claim to further progress
bv Field Marshal Won Hindenburg frcm
the Baltic to Grodno, but thence south:
ward the armies of Prince Leopold and
Field Marshal Won Mackensen are said
to be moving forward, while the Aus
trian official statement covering the
battle line further south and east re-
cords nothing but Teutonic gains.
GERMAN OFFICIAL.
The report of the German Army
Headquarters follows:
From the Baltic to the eastward
Of Grodno the situation is unchanged.
Field Marshal Won Hindenurg's right
wing il nearing the Niemen River.
The armies Of Prince Leopold Of
Bavaria, fighting with the enemy's
rearguards, are advancing across the
Ros. south of Wolkowysk, and have
passed the swamp defles near Smo-
ianiza, northeast of Pruzana.
The armies Of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen are advancing.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL.
The official communication made pub
| lice at Vienna says:
On the Bessarabian frontier and
east of the mouth of the Sereth
River yesterday the Russians repeat
ed their severe counter attacks, when
were everywhere repulsed, with
heavy losses 10 the enemy.
On the Sereth front and on our line
east of Brody and west of Dubno the
intensity of the conflict has some
what slackened. when compared with
J the heavy fighting of the last few
days
In the district of Tarnopol we cap
tured village which the Russians
had fortified. =,
Our troops, advancing east OF
Lutsk under most difficult conditions,
have crossed the marshy and mum
dated low lying district of Putty
lowska, north of Olyka.
On the upper Jasiolka River the
Austro- Hungarian forces have elected
the enemy from his last fertilization:
Further south our troops at several
points have gained footing on the
northern bank of the river.