Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-14
Germans Cut Wilma Dvinsk Railroad with Three
 Pronged Attack.
GERMANY MAY SOON CONTROL RIVER LINES
Cutting of Railroad Marks Culmina. ton of Campaign yOn Hindemberg Has WMgpd Ever Since Second
 Line of DefenSeS Was Reduced.

London, Sept. 13.--The three-prong ed German offensive against Dvinsk has succeeded in cutting the Vilna- Dvinsk railroad, according to official advices from Berlin tonight, while von Beseler is believed to have fore cd a passage of the Dvina between Friedrichstadt and Jacobstadt in the campaign again Riga.
 The German official state ment says the Russians have been driven out of several positions on the eastern bank of the Dvina This is taken to mean either that the Germans have succeeded in throwing men across the river or that the heavy artillery has cleared the way for a passage. The forcing of the Dvina would probably force the Russians to exc cute a nasty retreat from Riga, and result in the occcupation of Dvinsk by the Germans, completing their control of the river lines.
 The cutting of the Wilma -Dvinsk railroad marks the eliminating move in a campaign, which has been waged by von Hindenberg's army group ever since the reduction of the second line | of Russian fortresses.
 Vilna's Fall Expected. The occupation of Wilma by the Germans here is considered to be only a matter of a few days. Petro- grad has announced that the salient of which Wilma formed part will be retired in order to straighten the front. Berlin claims the Russians have beeen thrust back on the lakes of the district outside Vilna
 1 While the fighting in the north holds the main interest, inasmuch as the result here will be the deciding influence on the rest of the front important successes are reported by Berlin in the drives which are being directed against the Vilna-Rovno rail. road in the center.
 Here it is reported, Prince Leo. polds group is rapidly pushing its way toward Slonim and Pinsk, the Russians being in flight leaving 1,OO( prisoners behind, while further south von Mackenzen has broken the Rus. sian resistance on the whole front and is smashing forward toward l Pinsk. The tributary roads tv the Wilma ROvnO railroad in this region already are in the hands of the Ger mans, it is stated.
 FOresee German Success. l The advances which have been made by. the Germans in the last few days lead military criticshere to be- lieve that thA Teutons will be able to carry to fulfllment their plan to gain control of the Dvina and lateral railroad lines for a winter front, even | if they do not launch a drive on Petrograd, as is apparently feared in the Russian capital.
 l The czar, according to news from | Petrograd, has gone to the front tC urge his troops to fresh efforts.
 A dispatch from Minsk, in western Russia, received here via Petrograd says that the towns and villages oi the government of Gr0dno are being evacuated by scores, and that thOus- ands of refugees are fleeing toward Baranovitchi, on the Vilna-Rovn0 railroad before the German army.
 Only on the southern wing, accord ing to reports tonight, are the Rus sians still carrying on strong of- fensive, such as marked the battles of last week. Here the Austrians re- ] port that Russian attacks on the Serthe were repulsed with sunfire and the bayonet, and that est of Dubno, Austro- Hungarian troops have pressed forward to the railroad. !