, 1915-10-06

back our troops in con tain sectors between
the railway and Lake Sventon for a short
distance. Between lakes Demmen and
Bristiak there has been an artillery duel.
East Of lake Syenton our cavalry repulsed
She Germans aud seized the village Of Post
avy. In a bayonet action we captured the
Cemetery ut Nese and three villages near
itke NIachnevekoie, and after our occEpntion
Of these points the enemy WAS driven back
for a considerable distance westward from
the region OF the NIleika railway to PereVOz,
on the Viliya river. North Of Smorgon au
action begun on Saturday is being Confined
felcely. The enemy operations begun 20
days ago in the ViIeika region are not yet
finished, but we have wrested the initiative
from him and repuIsed him with enormous
losses. The enemy's offensive has been com
pletely destroyed by our continued success
and we have changed from defensive TO
offensive operations, this having been nc
complished in a manner indicating the high
est gaIlautry by our Armies
A German oficiul bulletin Announces:
"North of Postavy there has been ca
vaIry fighting. South Of lake NoroIche
the Russian attacks were repnlsed,
the enemy not having made any strong at
tacks since his failure on many sides GA
6eI tember thirtieth. Our troops on Satur-
day took 3 officers and / 100 men prisoners
and captured 3 machine-guns near Smorgon.
Enemy positions near Czernysz and K0rwlu
were stormed, the enemy being driven ia q
northerly direction, leaving 1900 prisoners
in our hands, willie on other parts of the
front we made LOO prisoners. The Russians
on the night of September twenty-uinth and
ON the thirtielh attempted to brenk through
,U1r Af IaY,,n,,nl lnt 4hn otta.,N f.i1Al
completely, the enemy suffering severe loss
es, between 400 and 500 being killed from
one division alone which had previously num-
bered 1863 men before our front.
The correspondent Of the "Nicuwe Rotter-
damsche CourNnt' ut Sofia says TINT the Gem
trial Empires merely require neutrality Of a
very benevolent quality from Bulgaria, while
the Entente Powers demand that she should
take action against Turkey.
pesputches from Petrograd report the
following statement by NJ. Sazanof, Minister
for Foreign Affairs: 'Ih situation in the
Balkans is very grave. RUSSIA has been
aroused by the unthinkabIe treacherv of
Gar Ferdinand to the Slavic cause. Bul9a-
ra yves her independence to Russia, vet she
seems willing now to become a vassal OF Rus
eia's enemies, and in her attitude towards Ser
via, when the latter is fighting for her very
existence, Bulgaria classes herselfwith Turkey.
We do not believe that the Bulgurians sym
1Mthize with their ruler, therefore the Allies
are disposed to give them time for reflection,
but if they persist in their present treuchor-
GUS course they must answer to Russia An
ultimntum has not been presented but [
presume it will be soon"
A despatch to the Hava's Agency from
Athens states that Bulgarian troops are
marching towards the Serbian frontier aud
others towards the Greek border, The princi-
pal concentration being south west OF Sofia
near the Serbian border.
The correspondent Of the "Petit ParisIen'
at Bucharest states that Germans have
relieved the Austrions' first line along
the Danube. A German battalion which
tried to cross the river was destroy
ed, and Il detachment coming to its
help in a barge was drowned, while
several different attempts at various places
to get across the river have also been re-
pulsed with heavy losses.