The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-20
FAIL TO PROGRESS
RUSSIAN FRONT Is BECOMING
STRONGER EVERY DAY
GERMANS CAN'T ADVANCE
Teutonic Invaders Have Been Stopped
Between Two Strong Positions
Must Go Forward or Retreat
Russian Lines are Holding Firm In
North-Gains in South,
North-Gains in South.


Petrograd reports in special arti-.
Gle to the London Chronicle: The sit
uation on the Russian front is grow
ing better every day. The German
offensive is paralyZed and the Rus
slams are gradually recovering the
initiative. AS result of their five
months campaign, the Germans not
only have not succeeded in forcing
the Russian army to its knees, but.
have failed even to reach a secure
line, intrenching themselves on
which for the winter, they could con-
centrate their main attention on 9TH.
er fronts.
It so happens that other fronts
claim their most earnest attention at
the moment when the German front
in Russia is most awl1wardly placed
between two strong lines and when
the Russian army has to large ex-,
tent regained its striking power. The
Germans hoped to shake off the ter
rible and costly burden of the Rus
sian campaign before the winter.
It may be assumed, that they count
ed on establishing themselves firmly
on the strong line of the Dyina-Ber-
esina-Dnieper, but their calculations
have been falsifed at the exact psy-
Geological moment when the Allies
struck hard in the west and the
growing exhaustion of Turkey neces-
STATED supreme effort on the part.
of Germany in the Balkans.
The clear and prolonged offensive
of the central European powers is be-
ing turned into a complex and many
sided defensive. To free themselves
in Russia the Germans must push for
ward their centre beyond the sWano
region and secure their flanks. 10
secure flanks they must seize Dvinsk
and the Dvina and push on to the
Dnieper, but they, have attempted
both tasks in vain.
At Dyinsk the enemy has been
held at bay twenty-seven days. He
has lost~heavily in repeated frontal
At certain points he has ad-
varced within five or six miles Of the
town, but during the last few days
he has been forced back to the for
ner ten miles distance, and his at.
tacks cS1GSnn"''v melt away undessr
Russian fire. :, -.
Despairing of effeeting anything
by further frontal attacks, General
Below is now trying to force a way
to the north of Dyinsk. The
Germans did succeed in capturing the
position Of Gorbumovka
near the river bank, but were imme>
diately thrown out again. Near IL
lukst, northwest Of Dyinsk, where
there is stretch of open country be-
tween the dense forests, the Russians
have driven the Germans out Of their (
trenches. and south Of Dvinsk a stiff
battle is proceeding around Noyo
AleXandrovsk.
Add to this the fact that on the
line Of the lakes running parallel
with the Vilna-Dvinsk railway the
Russians are slowly but surely ads;
vancing, and it will be seen the enc
my's hope of forcing the Dvina is
certainly no brighter than it was a
month ago. A sign Of improvement
in the situation is the return to
Dvinsk of the Town Council from Vi:
tebsk, whittier it temporarily retired.
On the southern flank in Galicia
Russian success is even more mark
ed. West Of Trembowla- the Aus
trians had established themselves
near the village of Gaivoronka Il. q
strong fortified position, which was
to serve as a base for an advance on
the southern front. Russian successes
1t Kilki and CZartorisk, on the Styr,
the enemy, and he. tried to
overthrow. the Russians by a sudden
advance from Buczacz. ,-e-er. -
The Russians took up excellent
positions on the Styr, Olyka, Ikwa,-
and Sereth, and by continually ha-
RAISING the enemy prevented him
from settling down in intrenched
lines. The advance from Buczacz< was
and the Russians in their !.
turn flung forward from Trembowla
On to Gaivoronka. a strong AUS
trian redoubt was taken, the. Rus
slams forced way across the Stripa
On burning bridges, and cavalry,
breaking through the enemy's. hnes,:.
rounded up two thousand prisoners
and captured four guns and two ma
chine guns.
This striking success, which is, still :
being followed up, not only gives the
Russians a considerable strategical
advantage on the southern 'front.' but :
lndern1ines any possible moral effect
IN Roumania of the recent large COR
,entration OF Austrian and German
:roops in Galicia and Bukowina, near
he Roumanian frontier.