Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-09-09
TEUT0N|C ARMIES
TO PART COMPANY
ON POLISH FRONT
Not Certain Whether Austrians
Will Turn Against Serbia or
Strike at Kiev to Men
ace Rumania.
EARLY MOVE is EXPECTED
French Continue Violent Bonn
bardment of the German
Trenches-Russians Still
Failing Back.

London. Sept. 6.-Considerable mys-
terry has resulted from a message from
Vienna announcing that the German
and Austrian armies on the eastern
front are preparing to part company.
The statement that yester-
day Field Marshal Archduke Frederick,
commander in chief of the Austrian
armies bade official farewell to Field
Marshal Won Mackensen, the German
commander at Brest-Litovsk. Hence
forth, it was stated, the two command
ers We're to cease cooperating.
The message says it is believed the
Austrian armies that have been OPP
Grating in Poland shortly win be moved
in the direction of Serbia.
May Drive at kiev.
Military experts are divided In their
opinion as to whether the Teutons will
strike at the Balkans next or advance
on Kiev and Odessa in an attempt to
project a wedge between the Russian
armies and Rumania. The parting of
the German and Austrian commanders
at Brest-LitovSk yesterday is though
to be significant of early developments
in one OF the two fields.
Petrograd in it's latest statement, adj
mits a retirement of the Russians to
the north bank of the Dvina in the sec
tor where the desperate struggle to
protect Riga and the road to Petro-
grad is in progress.
Riga Defenders Firm.
North of Wilma, where the German
lines have apparently made little
rogres of late, the Russians claim to
have continued offensive operations
and to have gained ground against the
than a dozen machine guns and 300
prisoners.
German troops fighting toward the
Russian port of Riga AVE won a not
able victory in the capture of the
Bridgellead at Fried~erichstadt, on the
River Dvina. about 40 miles from Riga,
German army headquarters announced
today.
P~etrograd yesterday admitted that
the Russians had withdrawn across the
Dvina at a point near Linden after a
stubborn battle.
In taking the Friederlchstadt position
the Germans captured more than $500
prisoners, including 81 officers.
All the forts of Grodno are now in
possession of the Germans and the Rus
slams are retreating eastward. They
left six heavy guns to the Germans,
while 2,700 of their men were taken
prisoners.
Paris, Sept. 4.-Particularly violent
artillery engagements took place yes
terday to the northeast M to the
south of Arras and at other points be-
tween the Disc and the Aisne, accord
ing to announcement made today by
the French war office.
French Fire Violent.
Military observers abroad incline to
the belief that the persistent lombard
ment of Gerrnant positions pressages
an offensive movement by the entente
allies in the west.
The text of the French communica-
ton follows:
ments of particular violence to the
northeast and to the south of Arras
in the sectors of Rollincourt, Wailly
and B]retencourt, as we'll as between
the Disc and the Aisne in the region OF
Quennevieres and near Nouvron.
I'm the environs of Vauquois we
ploded several mines, which seriously
damaged the works of the enemy.
Their is nothing to report from the
remainder of the front"