The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-10-22
RUSS ARE CRUSHED
GERMANS CAPTURE GRoDNo FOR.
TREss AFTER FIERCE STREET
FIGHTING.
PORT OF RIGA is DOOMED
Berlin Summary of Enemy's Casual
ties Shows 100000 Since May q
100000 Killed and Wounded-2. oo0,.
600 Refugees Flee Into Interior.

Vienna, Sept. 4.-The fleeing Rus
slams have everywhere retreated on
the Sereth line in eastern Galicia, ac-
cording TO an official statement issued
by the war Office. Austrian troops are
now before Doubno, second fortress
on the Volhynian triangle. Here the
Russians have lined up TO make a
stand and the Austrians are preparing
for an attack.
Russians in Full Retreat.
London, Sept. 4.-lnterest in devel-
opments on the eastern front centers
on two eXtremities of the great 900
mile battle line, along the full extent
of which the Russian field army is
in full retreat before the advancing
Austro-German forces.
In the north the fortress and city
of Grodno have fallen before the
Germans. Evacuation of all the po-
sitions on the west bank of the Me
men by the Slavs, officially announced
by the Petrograd office, was followed
by the occupation of Grodno fortress
by the Teutons, who crossed the Me
men almost Immediately and captured
the city after desperate street fight
ing. Three thousand Russians were
made prisoners.
Galicia Nearly Free of Russ.
At the southern extremity of the
line the Austrians have virtually
ri nar G01 ni Of hn in n
ers. The Muscovites hold only a
small strip of Galician territory be-
tween the River Sereth and Bessara-
bia, and the Austrirns are relentless
ly advancing to purge their soil of
hostile troops.
Rga's Doom Forecast.
With Grodno under the German flag,
the last fortress in Poland held by
the Russians no longer constitutes a
menace to the German hosts advanc-
ing east and north. driving at the
great Baltic naval base Of Riga, and
possibly at Petrograd itself Coinci-
dentally with the news of Grodno's
fall comes the news Of the capture by
German troops of the strongly forti-
fled bridgehead at Lennwade, north
east of Friedrichstadt, only forty
miles from Riga. 1t is believed here
the Germans will make short shrift
of the seaport with this obstacle over
come.
Teutons Take lutsk.
Berlin, Sept 2.-The Russian for
tress OF Lutsk. one Of the triangle of
Notifications which remained in Rus
sian hands after the Austro- G erman
drive northwest through the Vistula
provinces. has been captured by the
Teuton armies, it was officially an.
nOunced by the Austrian war office.
Evacuation Reported.
Petrograd is reported to be in the
early stages Of evacuation, as the Ger
man advance threatens Riga. If the
latter city is captured panic will seize
the Russian capital. An official re-
view Of the eastern campaign given
out by the Overseas News Agency.
says:
General army headquarters pub
fishes review Of the results of Of
fensive movements in Poland and Rus
STA since May 2, beginning with the
battle at Gorlice. Army headquarters
estimates the strength Of the Rus
sian troops which were then directly
engaged in that region was about l..
100000.
In the fighting since Mayo 1.100..
600 have been captured and a mini
mum of 100000 wounded and killed.
Renew GaIicia Drive.
During the month Of August the
war office announced the Austro-G Ger
mans took 1000 Russian officers and
269,S39 men prisoners and captured
1890 cannon and $50 machine guns.
More than 100000 refugees from
Poland and western Russia have
poured into the interior, furnishing
the government with an enormous
problem in its efforts to care for
them.
Dispatches from Petrograd assert
General Ivanoff's armies have escaped
the trap Set for them in the southern
battle region. In their retreat toward
Doubno from Loutsk, which they
evacuated, they are said to have cap
tured 10000 Austrians and Germans.
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