Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-23
Berlin Announces Defi-
mite Progress in Drive
on Fortress.
1000 RUSSIANS TAKEN
PRISONER BY TEUTONS
PetrOgrad Regards Slays'
Withdrawal from Hindenburg's
Trap Virtually Complete.
REPORT GERMAN LOSSES
AROUND WILMA 25o,oOo
French Claim Continued Sue
cess in Bombardment of
German Positions.

The Germans have penetrated Rus
sian advanced positions southwest OF
Dvinsk, on the Dvina, in their re-
Gently renewed offensive movement
against this important fortified city.
which lies on the route to Petrograd.
A dispatch from Petrograd this
afternoon declared that the Russian
military authorities regard the with
drawal of the greater part of the
Russian forces from the wilma salient
as virtually completed. 1t is declared
that the losses of the Germans in thie
region during the recent operations
total $50, 900 men.
Latest reports seem to indicate that
the bulk of the Russian armies rez
treating from Wilma have escaped
Field Marshal Won Hindenberg's en-
circling movement, although today's
German official statement records a
| continuation of the pursuit with the
capture of some prisoners.
Paris continues to record the suo-
cess of the French artillery in infiict-
Ing damage on German positions
| along the western front In the battle
or big guns that has been raging for
| more than three weeks. The Response
] OF the German artillery to French fire
| upon troops constructing new earth
works in the Argonne is reported to
have been feeble. Several German
ammunition depots were blown up
/ by the French cannonade in the
Champagne district, it is claimed
/ Germans Reinforce Positions.
j Berlin asserts that an attack ap-
parently directed by the French
| against the cemetery positions at
oouchez was broken up by the Ger
man artillery.
II is reported through Rotterdam
that the Germans have heavily rein
| forced their lines in Belgium and
nave restored and strengthened the
rortifications at Lille, France. in an
tleipation of possible general
offensive by the Franco British Rel
gian forces before the beginning OF
| the autumn rains.
Bulgaria's mobilization order is re-
ported from Athens to have included.
up to midnight Wednesday, twenty
eight classes of troops.
berlin dispatches indicate that the
| thlrd German war loan, subscriptions
! TO which closed yesterday, will prove
a marked success estimates being
that the total subscriptions will far
exceed those of the second loan.
which aggregated so, lac. 600, 900
| Turk Supplies Low?
| Recent reports that Turkish sup
piles were running short are re-
lterated in private reports brought to
! Switzerland from Constantinople. IT
is declared that because of the lack
of raw material 1000 workmen from
the Krupp plant in Germany are idle
In the Ottoman capital.
| Reports from the Italian front are
that SHOWS already are rendering the
| operations of the Italians and Aus
TRANS in the mountin districts in
creasingly difficult Rome, however,
declares that Austrian forces which
| had penetrated into the valleys of the
Tofana and Crystallo ranges have
been successfully dealt with and
| driven back.
! BY tho United Press.
BERLIN, via wireless to London,
| Sept. 23.--German troops closing in
upon Dvinsk from the west have pene-
trated the Russian positions, taking
2,122 prisoners, ii was officially an
nounced this afternoon. The cars
troops are falling back on the city's
outer defenses, which have been un-
der long range bombardment since
| Sunday.
The Bavarians, under Prince Leo
pold. have captured several Russian
positions west of Valevka, in the re-
gion northeast of Slonim.
The Russians made vigorous at
taeks on the newly captured Ger
| man positions southwest of Dvinsk,
but were driven off,
I'VE have completely broken tho
Russian resistance between the
region north of Osgiona and east of
Subotniki," the war Office stated.
BY the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 80 q p. m, Via
London, 4:15 p. m)-The Russian
military authorities regard the With
drawal from Ihe very difficult posi-l
ton near wilma, which for time se-
riously menaced u large army, as
virtually completed They assert the
Germans have lost 250,000 men in their
} recent operations in this region
} By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. %, 1886 p. m.-The
violent artillery fighting which has
characterized the operations in France
for more than three weeks past was
continued yesterday and last night
at a number of places on the battle
line, according to an announcement
given out this afternoon by the French Z
war office. The engagements were
particularly severe near Roclincourt
and to the north and south of the
river Avre.
The text of the communication fol-
lows:
In the Artois district the enemy
last night bombarded violently the
sector of Roolincourt as well as our
trenches located to the south of the
river Scarpe, in the department OF
Pas de Calais Our artillery respond
ed vigorously. There have been some
engagements between trenches in the f
region of Neuville Our artillery has
directed an intense and afficacious fire
against the German trenches to the
north and to the south of the river
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