The Elbert County tribune., 1915-09-03

TEUTON FORCES
CAPTURE L|PSk
FORTRESS NEAR GRopNo FALLS
AS GERMAN ARMIES CON-
TINUE ADVANCE.
900 OFFICERS KILLED
AUsTRo-GERMAN SMASH oooms
RUSSIANS LAST STRONG
HOLD IN POLAND.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Berlin.-The British employed 12.-
900 men in their attacks on Turkish
positions on Gallipoli peninsula, ac-
cording to a dispatch from Constanti-
nople to the Frankfurter Zeitung, and
their losses were extremely heavy.
The correspondent estimates that
since Aug. 6 the British losses have
been In excess of $4,000.
According to the correspondent, the
killed amcng the British troops in the
fi.;hting of Aug 2S and Aug. 29 in
cluded about 500 officers.
London.-The Russian arpies along
the line of the upper Bug and the
Zlota Lipa are being withdrawn rap
idly and apparently without great
loss, as neither Vienna nor Berlin
claims any extensive captures of pris
oners or booty in this region.
In the center of the line, due east
of Warsaw. the invaders continue to
make steady progress, while further
north they are advancing more slow
ly. The fall of Lipsk brings the at
tacking forces nearer Grodno. the last
big fortress on the front to be re-
tanned by the Russians.
London, Sept. 1.-While reports
from the eastern war theatre. en-
bracing the region from Courland to
southeastern Galicia. indicate that the
Germans and Austrians are still
pressing the Russians hard in combat
or tenaciously following them in re-
treat, military observers here are hop
ing that the approaching equinoxial
season will limit the further forward
movement OF the Teutons and force
them to be content with the fruit of
their past successes as the winter sea
son falls upon them.
Both Berlin and Vienna lay empha-
sis on the statement that Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg's forces along
the Dvina river in Courland. have re-
newed their activities, which we're
brought to a sudden halt recently with
the success of the Russians in holding
Riga as a menace to Won linden
burg's rear
In southwestern Russia, in the
Brest-Litovsk region, the Austrians
and Germans are chiefly concerned in
driving Grand Duke Nicholas armies
further into the Pripet marshes. evil
IDENTIFY with the purpose of repeating
the early score of the Germans in the
Mazurian lake region of East Prussia
To the northwest, In the section ly-
ing only a short distance to the east
of the East Prussian frontier, Berlin
reports an advance of the Teutons
and the capture of the town of Lipsk,
lying just to the west of the fortress
of Grodno, upon which the aims of the
Germans now are evidently centered.
Grodno is the last of the great fort
resses in Poland held by the Russians
Gen. Won Eichhorn has defeated the
Russians in a battle east of the Me
men, northeast of the fortress of Olita
recently taken by the Germans, cap
turing 1.6O0 prisoners and seven can
non, the German official statement
announces.
The defeat by Field Marshal Won
Mackensen's troops of the Russian
forces which made stand south of
Kobrin while retreating in the marshy
districts east of Brest-Litovsk, is re-
ported.
Desperate fighting continues in the
Dardanelles in the vicinity of the
spot where the British recently made
their landing. The Turkish reports
claim the recapture by the Ottoman
I forces of allied trenches with heavy
allied casualties
| Violent artillery fighting took place
at many points in the Argonne district
as a result of which the trenches of
the Germans were seriously damaged.
according to the French official re-
nOyt