, 1915-08-28
ST. CROIX STATION.
Censored at JamRlca.l

London, Aug. 25th-A Russian official
commuuique states: "The German feet on
the sixteenth renewed in force an attack on
our position at the entrance to the Gulf Of
Riga, but our ships repulsed the attacks.
Owing to thick fog hostile forces of consi-
deruble size entered the Guf on the eigh-
leenth and our vessels retired. On the
18Th aud Goth the enemy rpconnoitred, aud
continuing the fight their torpedo bont Aotil-
liz suffered material losses aud we lost The
guuboat first "Stvutch". The enemy appears
to have evacuated The Gulf on the twenty
fast. Between the sixteenth aLd twenty-tirst
Two enemy cruisers and eight torpedo boats
were sunk or put out of commission, and
simultaneously Il British submarine torpedoed
IN the BnItic one of the most powerful
dreadnoughts Of the German feet. On laud,
in the Riga region, the situation has not
changed. On the river Svent. between
Vidiya and the Niemen, on the twenty-first
and twenty-second we held the enemy's often
five on the front of Kovarsk, VllkCmir,
KocheJary, DrsozaH and Ichki. Further
south some of our units passed from the
left bank Of the middle Niemen to the right
bank Of the Bobr. In the Brest- Litovsk re-
gion we coutiuue to defend our positions.
The enemy has made most stubborn attacks
on the lower Bobr, in the region Of Chat
runka and Bielsk in m %easterly direction.
ard on the front of Kleshtschele, WisOkie
and Brest Litovsk. On the right bank of
the Bug, east Of Wlodawa, the principal enc
my attacks continue in the region near Push
chm. On the evening of the tweDty-second
the enemy attempted an offensive in the
direction of Kovel. The situation in Galicia
Is unchanGed".
A Berlin official bulletin announces: Gen
eral Won Eichorn is making further progress
east Of kovuo. On the Bobr we have oc-
cupied the fortress of Ossowrtza. which was
evacuated by the Russians. North and
south CT Tykocyn there have been successful
engagements and that place has itself been
takeu,togethur with twelve hundred prisoners,
including eleven officers, and seventy-seven
lnnchine-Suns. Desperate Russian counter
attacks east Of Blelsk failed, with considerQ-
BILE losses, and we have advanced southwark.
Prince Leopold has crossed the Kieszozele-
ltanza line and hns engaged in further fav.
durable attacks in which he took 3, 050 pris-
Oners aud sixteen machine-guns Field Mar
Shal Won Mackeusen has captured the cross
Jugs Of the Pulva, after fierce resistance
on the trout between RAMA aud the mouth
OF The river. An attack across the Bug, above
the Pulya, is progressing. Before Brest-
LitovSk the situation remains unchanged.
but on both sides OF Svitjoze and at Plszona,
east of Wlodawa, the enemy has been de-
e1tpd and driven back 10 the northeast"
Vienna otiieial despatch states: EAST
OF Loweve and the Pulva and from Rnnza
to the railway leading northwnrd fighting of
great severity is proceeding, the enemy
an st stubbornly defending every inch of
glound, but he has been repulsed at several
s'olnts, losing many prisoners"
A Paris official communique states: 'In
the Nosges, on The clests OF the LIuge aud
Tie B"rrenkopf after a preparatory bombprd-
'nent OF particular severity we gained pos
session OF some of the enemy's trenches"
A Berlin official bulletin announces: sIn
she V"sEes, north OF Munster, battles are
Tagging on the Lingekopf-Schratzmaunele.
Barrenkop f lines, Strong attncks bv the
French partly penetrated our positions, but
our countel-atiacks drove the enemy back
again on The Lineekopi."