Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-04
SLAVS FIGHT TO SAVE ~
ROAD TO PETROGRAD
Germans Win Another Important
Victory in Advance ON
Port Of Riga. +.
VIENNA CLAIMS SUCCESSES
Cars Men reported to Have Been
Elected From Jasiolda River.
Take New Positions
on Sireth.

LONDON, September 4.-The
Russians are fighting desperately
along the Dvina, protecting the
shortest road to Petrograd. They
are developing a counter offensive
before Wilma, which evidently is
designed to threaten Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg's right
flank.
The German army engaged in
the battle for possession of the
Russian port of Riga has won an
other important victory. German
army headquarters in Berlin an
nounced today the capture of the
bridgehead at Friedrichstadt, on
the Dvina, about forty miles be-
low Riga. The Germans claim to
have captured thirty-seven Off
GERS and 1925 men.
Only In the northern regions,
however, are the cars armies
showing anything like effective
resistance, for in all other sections
along the eastern front the retir-
ing movements continue. Ac-
cording to an Austrian officer.
writing from the front, the retreat
of the Russian armies is marked
by terrifying devastation, they
leaving an immense sea of flames
behind them. the fuel being
houses and crops. The Cossacks
have been instructed to leave
nothing but ashes, it Is declared.
Russians Take New Positions,
Although 1t is apparent that the
Russian armies have been practically
crowded out Of Galicia by Austro-
German forces, Petrograd officially de-
clares that her forces have occupied
new positions on the River Sireth, and
have repulsed several enemy attacks
NloAAd says ludI everywhere IN East
Galicia the Russian forces are retreat
ing. closely pursued by the Germanic
allies. but tho Austrians admit,
however. that in the district west
town. the slavs are making show Of
resistance against Teutonic attacks.
Russians have been elected from
some of the fortifications erected on
the border Of the swamps on the upper
Jasiolda river. according to Vienna.
Says Everything Is Burned.
A letter from an Austrian officer
fighting on the eastern front, which
has been received in Switzerland. says:
"The Russian retreat is a MASTERPIECES
Of terrifying. systematic devastation
which recalls the retreat Of 1912. There
is an immense sea of flames behind
the retiring Russian armies, caused by
burning houses and crops.
Gen. Mischenko is followed by well
organized detachments Of Cossacks
behind the army. They accomplish
their task implacably.
when the Honveds tried to enter
Krylow in pursuit of the Russians
unable to pass through the huge fur
mace and lost many precious hours in
going round the town by indirect roads
across fields.
Find Towns Afre.
when the Austro-Hungarians ar.
rived at vladimir-Volynsky they found
tho town burning, and the town Of
verba also was blazing. Every VIII
lage on tho volynskyi plain as far as
Kovel was in flames. The Austro-Hun-
garian troops had no shelter for days.
The roads are indescribably cut up
and obstructed. Conveys arrived a day
and a half late. It would take fifty
soldiers to draw one cart out of q
mud hole.
pairs on the railway from Sokol to
Vladimir -volynskyi, and II the road
had not been repaired in time we would
l, ua mat with disaster"