Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-25
TEUTONS REPORT
RUSSIAN DEFEAT
Cars Forces are Driven Back
Over 25-Mile Front, SAYS
a Vienna Dispatch.
RIGA REMAINS DANGER POINT
Siavs Continue to Occupy City in Spite
of Nearness of Germans-BattIes
Continue.

London, Sept S--A defeat of the
Russians over a front of about twenty
five miles in the vicinity of Brody,
Eastern Galicia, is reported officially
by the Vienna war office tonight The
Russians every here evacuated the
positions they held, according to the
report, and are being pursued by the
Austro-Hungarian troops.
Riga remains the danger point, but
the fact that the Russians continue to
occupy the town after the Germans
have advanced to the Dvina, south
east of Riga, leads military writer's to
the conclusion that the Russians feel
reasonably sure of their ability to de-
fend the river and in time to push
sufficiently far westward to relieve
the pressure on their forces on the
shores of the Gulf of Riga.
Dvinsk and Wilma Safe?
Westward of Dvinsk and Wilma the
Russian offensive now has held the
Germans more than a week, and to
the military Observers those two
towns seem fairly safe unless the in
vaders are to bring up strong rein
forcements. East and southeast of
Grodno the Russians have taken up
new positions across the River St
Chara and it's numerous tributaries
and are protecting the network of
railways which run eastward and
northward to the interior of the coun-
try.
To the southeast again, among the
forests and swamps to the northeast
ern edge of the Pripet marshes, a
great battle is in progress between the
army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria
and the troops of the Russian center,
the latter having finally elected to
make a stand Amid the Pripet
marshes the German Field Marshal
Mackensen is working hard for de-
cisive result. He reports that he has
taken two Russian positions.
Still another battle is being fought
for the triangle of Notifications far
Their south, of which Rovno and Dubno
remain in the hands of the Russians.
The AuStrians and Russians are
facing each other across the Sereth
River in Galicia, where the fighting
is continuous. The stands which the
Russians are making suggest that
their supply of munitions is ample.
Teutons Menace Riga.
London, Sept THE menace to
Riga, an important Russian seaport in
lie Dd1lIC, Is UGCOillHS more DANGER
Gus. The Germans still hold the
bridgehead at Friedrichstadt, the &C.
cupation of which effectively cuts off
Rigas railway communication to the
south, while German aircraft are ac-
tive in the gulf, perhaps presaging an
other naval clash as part of con-
certed German movement from land
and sea to complete the isolation of
the city and force its abandonment by
the Russians.
According to an unofficial Berlin
dispatch received by way of Copen-
hagen, the Germans claim possession
of the gulf, the Russians having aban-
doned Dago, the northernmost of the
three islands just outside the gulf
To5ay's Berlin official communica-
tion lays no claim to further progress
by Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
from the Baltic to Grodno, but thence
southwark the armies of Prince Leo
poid and Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen are said to be moving forward,
while the Austrian official statement
covering the battle line farther south
and east records nothing but Teutonic
gains
The great artillery duel in the west
goes on undated with the French and
presumably the British the aggressors
The fact that it has continued for a
fortnight undated leads to the belief
in some quarters that it may mean
preparation for an allied offensive be-
fore the approach of cold weather. The
lavish use of shells by the French
would seem to indicate some great I'M
dertaking, but the plan is not yet ap-
parent to the general public
London, Sept 4--The Germans, in
their official report today, claim to
have carried by assault the fortified
brldgehead at Lennewada. on the
Dvina River between Friedrichstadt
and Riga This is considered for the
Russians the most critical point on
their whole front, for should the Ger
mans succeed in crossing the Dvina
the Russians would be compelled to
evacuate Riga and their position be-
tween the Dvina and Wilma and even
southwest of the latter city would be
jeopardized