The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-09-08
PRESSURE KEPT Up
GERMANS CONTINUE TO CHASE
RETREATING RUSSIANS

MAY AIM FOR ODESSA
Activity Along Galician Front Brings
Rumors-Pursuit Is to Continue as
Long as it Pays in Captives-
Fierce Fighting Continues Around
Pripet Swamp.
The Germans and Austrians con-
tinue pressing the Russians in the
east. Both Berlin and Vienna lay
emphasis lon the statement that Won
Hindenburg's forces along the Dvina
river in Courland have renewed their
activities, brought to sudden halt
recently with the success of the Rus
slams in holding Riga as menace to
Won Hindenburg's rear.
In southwestern Russia, in the
sBTest-Litovsk regions, the Austrians
and Germans are striving to drive the
Russians further into the Pripet
marshes, evidently intending to re-
peat the early success of the Germans
in the Mazurian Lake region of East
Prussia.
To the northwest, and east Of the
East Prussian frontier, Berlin reports
an advance of the Teutons and the
capture of Lipsk, west of Grodno,
upon which the aims OF the Germans
now are evidently centered.
Military observers arc directing at
tention to the fact that the Russian
equinoctial storms are due to. begin
about September 21. They believe
these may check the German ad-
vance. Some observers recall that
the autumnal equinox marked the
turning point in the Napoleonic cam
paign.
Dispatches from Berlin for some
time past have intimated that the
next move of the Austrian and Ger
man armies in the east, after clearing g
Poland and establishing a strenuous
defensive line as far as the Baltic,
would be to turn south and drive
through the southern provinces Of
Russia to the Black Sea- Reports
have come from Berlin that the Rus
slams already were preparing to evac-
uate these provinces.
The resumption of the offensive on
the line of the Zlota Lipa and the
! Dniester, after lull of more than a
month, indicates that this plan has
become a serious possibility. 1t is
considered to be at least as practica-
I Bile as an attempt to capture Petro-
grad, and Of much greater strategic
and political value. It would not only
nulIify, to a great extent, the capture
OF Constantinople by the Allies, OF,
out, until Odessa is reached, would
open a channel for relief and rein
forcement, aud particularly ammuni-
ton, which the Turks urgently need.
It would also probably definitely
settle the possibility Of Roumania
s entering the war on the side. of the
Allies by cutting her of from Russia.
: fncidentIy, there have been reports of
"a masssing Of Austrian troops oppo-
ste the Serbian frontier, on the Dam
ube. at the western extreme of Rou-
mania's boundaries.
The distance to be covered by such
an offensive would be fully twice as
great as that covered in the great
sAustro- German drive east from Cra-
cow, which. in May and June, cleared
Ga1icia of the Russians, but the ter
ritory to be traversed is, but for one
range Of mountains, not particularly
difficult.
German military experts express
the belief that the Russian invaders
soon, will be expelled from that little
corner in East Galicia where alone
they have been able to maintain a
foothold on Austrian SOIL,
This development, with the sharp
advance by the Austrians northeast of
KoyeI, is believed to indicate the op-
enings of a campaign against the
fortress triangle formed by the
strongholds Of Lutsk, Dubno and
Rowno, in Volhynia, erected as a bar
s to access to Southern Russia.
The Russian armies retreating
north and south Of Brest-Litovsk are
separated by the Rotikno swamps
and military men say that the Aus
Z tro-German strategists are in a posi-
ton to mass forces at will against
either Russian wing and expose it to
"a crushing defeat. Dispatches re-
ceiyed say that the Russian resist
ance behind Brest-Litovsk has been
broken and that the pursuit by. the
Teutons is being pressed with all the
energy laid down in the German man
1als.
Samary, where German cavalry de-
feated Russi,r cavalry division, is
forty miles e, of Brest-Litovsk.
The military experts say that this
mounted force of Germans is now in
"a position to bite deep into the flank
of the retreating Russians and bag
many prisoners, if not to convert the
s retreat into utter rout. With more
cavalry in hand the Austro-German
strategists, it is said, might perhaps
before this have compelled Grand
& Duke Nicholas to turn and accept
battle. The belief is expressed that
his retreat from now on will be dou-
: bly, difficult.
Naturally there has been much
speculation in Berlin concerning the
limits to which the pursuit Of the
Z Russians would be pressed. Some
have assumed that the advance would
not be continued much beyond Brest-
Litovsk, but the impression is now
general that the pursuit will proceed
so long as it continues to give paying
returns in captives Or offers chance
to bring the fleeing armies to bay.
Meanwhile a permanent line Of de-
fense will be selected and fortified as
"a barrier against new Russian Of
fensive, it is stated.
Petrograd: A dispatch to the Lon
s don Morning Post says there is prac-
tically nothing to record which
5 breaks the monotony of the steady
retirement which is continued every
where by the Russians. Now the fea-
ture is the renewal of attacks on the
extreme right wing of the German
grand front ON tho 10oer rea arheS of