The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-11
GERMANS GAIN In
EAST And WEST
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM
BERLIN TELLS OF NUMER-
Gus SUCCESSES.
Advance Rapid In servls, With Mue n
Progress in Both Russia
and France

BERLIN. Oct 10. by wireless TO
Sayville. y. Y--Although the Servi-
ans are Offering determined resistance
10 the Austro-German invasion. IL ap-
pears from the statement given out
to-day at the war once that their
efforts thus far have failed. Belgrade
Is now completely in the hands of the
Ieutonic forces. as well as the out.
lying heights TO the southeast and
southwest of the city. Further east
the Servians were beaten back.
The war ONCE announcement re-
srecting these operations follows:
Belgrade and the surrounding
heights to the southwest and south
east are in our hands. The Servians
also were thrown back further east
wherever. they resisted. Our troops
are advancing"
German counter attacks on posi-
tons In France recently won by the
allies have resulted in the recapture
OF a large section of territory In the
Champagne and several trenches near
Souchez. In the vicinity OF Tahure,
captured last week by the French.
the Germans regained a strip of terri
tory 100 vars deep over a front OF
about 2is miles. The war office an
nouncement respecting the campaign
in the west follows:
Took Trenches.
On the heights to the east of Sou
chez the Germans took several
trenches and a machine gun.
The Germans. by a counter attack,
re-conquered near Tahure in the Cham
payne. the territory on q front OF
four kilometers (about 2la miles, and
100 meters deep"
The Berlin report, as received by
way of London, says the ground re-
gained by the Germans near Tahure
amounted to several hundred meters"
over a front OF about four kilometers,
instead OF a hundred meters as given
in the version received by wireless TO
Sayville.
German efforts to capture Dvinsk,
on which Field Marshal Won linden
burg Is now concentrating his efforts.
has made further important progress.
The war office announced today the
capture OF Russian positions over a
front OF nearly five miles. north of the
railroad running west from Dvinsk.
A violent Russian attack west of the
city. in an endeavor TO regain the
positions lost when the Germans last
week made a gap OF three miles in the
Russian line. was repulsed.
Russians Repulsed.
The official statement in regard TO
operations in the eastern front fol-
lows:
After violent hand TO hand fight
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's army
repulsed Russian forces which at
tempted to reconquer their lost posi-
lions near Garbounovka. west OF
Pinsk. North of the railroad from
Dyinsk TO Poniwesch. TO the west of
llluksk. the Germans captured the
enemy's position over a front of about
eight Kilometres (nearly FIVE miles,.
Six officers. $50 prisoners and five
machine guns were captured.
General Won Linsingen's army took
by storm the village of Sinczye. south
west of Pinsk. Cavalry engagements
continue near Kucheckawola and in
the neighborhood OF Jezierczy. Sew
eral Russian attacks on the front be-
tween Rafalovki $50 miles south OF
Pinsk) and the railroad running from
Rovno to Kovel were repulsed and 3S3
Russians were made prisoners.
General Won Bothmer's army re-
pulsed strong Russian attacks north
west Of Tarnopol."