The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-20
MAY
CAPTURE PART
CARS ARMY.
wilma, Long the Objective of
the Austro-G Germans, /
is Captured.
RUSSIAN, ARMY is
PARTLY ENCIRCLED
Bulgaria Calls More Men to
Colors and May Enter
the War Soon.
ARMY IS
PARTLY ENCIRCLED
az AssocIArEp. PRESS

London, Sept. 19.-Tne Germans
have occupied Wilma and by a. wide
sweeping movement north. of that
city, have almost, if not entirely, sur
rounded a part of the Russian army
fighting in the railway triangle be-
tween Wilma, Ida and Vileika. Wilma,
a city of one hundred and seventy
thousand, half of whom Jews and a
great part of the others Lithuanians
and Poles, with but few Russians
has long been the German objective.
It is an important industrial and
trade center.
The Russians recently announced
they had moved nearly all the gov
eminent Institutions from there and
considered 1t no longer strategic
point. The Russians IN his district,
however, nov must eithel. fight their
way out eastward or retire in a
southeasterly direction, for the. only
railway left entirely in their hands
is that from Wilma to Lids. and thence
to Baranovitchi.
Won Hindenburg's army, which
took Wilma, and has reached Vileika,
east of wilma, now is working in close
cooperation with that Of Archduke
Leopold of Bavaria in an effort to
catch part of the Russian army.
This operation, however, has often
been tried without success since the
Austro- Germans began their great
drive last May.
At the southern end of the line
General Ivanoff is still keeping Won
Mackenzen at arms length from the
fortress of Kovno, which is the key
to the route to Kiev, and in counter
attacks the Russian general has re-
taken villages in Valhaynia and Ga
licia. From the inability Of the Aus
tro-Germans to hold positions in the
south it seems they have sent rein
forcements to Won Hindenburg'
northern army which is heretofore
is expected to score the biggest sue
cess.
! ALONG WESTERN FRONT.
Both the Germans and French
claim local victories on the western
front, but neither there nor in the
i Italian theatre, nor at the Darda-
nelles have events of great moment
been reported. The Germans today
announced sanguinary French losse:
southeast of the Brayon river IL
Somne, while the French assert the
Germans were defeated and man,
captured in the region of Fay, south
west of Peronne, in fighting which
followed the German explosion of ;
mine. The French say today wa
marked by much artillery activity
and considerable infantry fighting a
various parts of the front, and tina
yesterday a German anti-aircraf
battery was destroyed east of st
Mihiel.
MUSSULMEN REVOLVING.
The political situation in the Bal
. kans still is shrouded in considerable
mystery. Bulgaria, after getting
line of the Dedeaghatch railwa
. ceded from Turkey, now seems salts
Il fed. but there are rumors the Mus
sulman population of this district j
: revolving and refusing to come unde
! the Bulgarian rule, while Berlin re
: ports rumors Of Bulgaria preparin
! to take by force, If it carnot get
otherwise, those parts Of Macedoni
which Greece and Serbia annexe
after the recent Balkan war. 1t
, asserted that Bulgaria has called I
the colors all Macedonian recruit
now in Bulgaria and that there is
: warlike feeling generally among th
! Bulgars.
: With Bulgaria surrounded by Sci
: bia, Greece and Roumania and he
! coast open to attack by the Angle