, 1915-08-28

1IIuC0 A6ODplI III in0 PUN bOi VI
Kleszozele and in the forest district south
east thereof, has again defeated the enemy,
the pursuit reaching the BieIowesh forts,
and he took over 500 prisoners and 8 ma
chine guns. The Germans and Austro-
Hungarians under Won Mackensen have nd-
vanced across the Pulva and the Bug, East
of the mouth of the Pulva the enemy has
evacuated his positions and his pursuit con-
tinues. Litorsk Hill at Kopytow has been
stormed, and our troops ale advancing
through the marshy district northeast of
Wlodawa, pursuing the enemy"
An Austrian official statement says; "Nortb-
west of Brest- Litovsk the enemy, who was
resisting in the district of Wierchowtce-
Rama, has been repulsed again aud forced
to %retrent. The Archduke Ferdinand in the
last battles took 1900 men and four officers
prisoners. Northeast of Wlodawa our
allies again have repulsed the enemy and
gained ground. The Austro-H Hungarian and
German cavalry TINT entered Kovel are
now advancing norrhward."
A French official commnniqu6 states an
the VOsges violent encounters have taken
place on the heights eust of the Fpcht and
north of SchIazmannele, and despite several
cOunter-attQcks the enemy found it imp )ssi-
BILE to recapture The ground lost. The Bar
renkopf has been retained with the advan-
tnges recently wor. The Germans delivered
another attack on the trenches on the crest
Of the Sondernach, but they were Itpulsed."
A German Official statement says: "Iu
the Vosges the French again attacked our
positions ut BarrenkOpf and north Of there
during the evening, and weak detNchments
penetrated our positions, bat were driven
out. During the battle reported on Tues
day a section of a trench ut Barrenkopf
n1-.:.a1 - H. LA,1, r. d. .o-, -
The correspondent of the "Daily Tele-
graph" at Rome states that the Balkan
League is to be reconstructed and will put
a combined army Of one million men in the
field.
Advices received in London state that q
council Of Ministers was to be held at Nish,
Yesterday, King Peter presiding, which, it
was expected, would finally decide the Ser
bian reply to the proposals of the Allies, but
a formul reply is not looked for for two or
three days.
The COLOGNE Gazette" states that The
railways of Roumunia have received orders
to place all their rolling stock ut the DISPOSE
ton of the Minister for War on September
fourteenth.
The Sofia correspondent of the "Vossiche
Zeitung" states that the RussOphile Cpposl-
ton party III Bulgaria is demanding a spr-
cl(l session Oh tn6 OopFAHJe, I'D OIQef 20 over
throw the Radoslnvoff Cabinet. but the Pre-
mier, who is pro-GermHu and in the conf
dence of Car Ferdinand, has refused to
snmNaOn Parliament. Greece having asked
Roumania what measures were contemplated
to prevent Il revision Of the Treaty of Buch0-
rest, Roumania replied that she approved the
proposals of the Quadruple Alliance. Tue
pap n remarks that Roumnnia's policy repre-
sents M even greater betrayal of the
Central Powers thnn that of Italy, and
thut III Berlin there is little hope of prevent
ing the formation of a Balkan Lengue
against the Central Empires.
The correspondent of the Central News
Agency Mt Athens states that n Russian ae-
roplane squadron bombarded COnstautinople
on Monday, killing and woundiue41 persons,
including 8 Greeks and and 3 Armenians.
Washington, Aug. 26th.-Count Won Bern
stortf has given out the German Note re-
garding the sinking of the arabic, but so
fur 40 official information is available. The
German Government trusts that the Ameri-
eau Government will not take q definite
stand after hearing 0uly reports from the
one side, which, in the opinion of the I'm
periul Government, cannot correspond with
the facts, but that a chance will be given
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