Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-09

More than 200 prisoners, bomb throw
er and some machine guns were cap
tured by US.
Artillery actions have taken place on
both sides in the western Argonne. in
the wood Of lie Pretre. in the Vos-
ges. at Braunkopf. and on the ap-
proaches to Sondernach.
BELGIAN STATEMENT.
PARIS, October Q,
The night and the day were quiet. Our
front to the south of the ferryman's
house was su omitted to a rather vio-
lent Smelling by means Of bombs.
ITALIAN STATEMENT.
ROME, October 8. via Paris, October o.
In the zone between Adige and Brenta
the activity of our troops has con-
tinued. supported by an intense ar
tillery fire. On the mountains which
form the southern slopes Of Gail and
on Rombon. in the Plezzo basin. the
enemy attempted during the last few
works. but he has been stopped by
the accurate fire of our artillery and
detachment of snipers.
On the Carso front, in the Gorilla re-
gion. successful attacks by small de-
tachments of our troops of the left
wing continued during the night OF
the 7th and the following day. We
made seventy-three prisoners.
Austrian aeroplanes threw bombs on
Rochetta. in the Astico valley. with
out doing any damage, and on the
Cervignano railroad station. where
five soldiers were slightly wounded.
AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.
VIENNA. October 8. via London, Octo-
Der o,
Russian theater: The enemy yesterday
attacked on the whole east Galicfan
and Volhynian front with strong
forces and an abundance Of ammuni-
ton; but his attacks were unsuccess-
On the Bessarabian frontier. on the
heights north of the Dniester and on
the Stripa river Russian storming
columns collapsed before they reach
ed our entanglements.
Northwest Of Tarnopol the Russians
penetrated our trenches at two
points. but this morning they were
repulsed by newly arrived German
and Austro-Hungarian reinforce
tile attack against the village OF
Sapanow. northwest Of Kremince,
which yesterday was the center of
bitter fighting and changed hands
III ti"es' out Is no" III our
Southwest of Owyka we have repulsed
superior Russian forces in hand-to-
hand fighting. in which Infantry
Regiment 80 of the landwehr and In
fantry Regiment Teschen 81 distin-
guished themselves.
There Is very violent fighting south of
Olyka. North and northeast of Kolki
our counter attacks have progressed.
and we have taken the villages Of
Col
The total number of Russian prisoners
taken during the fighting of October
81 in the Volhynian territory is
about 1000. The enemy suffered very
heavy casualties
Italian war theater: Yesterday after
noon the Italians again attacked
with strong forces against the front
on the plateau of Vilgereuth The
attack was sanguinarily repulsed.
The fighting is most violent on the po-
sition of our supports northeast of
Maronia mountain. Here the hostile
battalions. marching in close forma-
ton. penetrated and destroyed our
entanglements but were repulsed by
fantry Regiment IA with the bayo-
net The entire attack ended with
the flight of the Italians into their
former positions
On the northern part of the Doberdo
sector the enemy's attacks were
again unsuccessful Near TelZ parts
of Infantry Regiment 81 expelled the
Italians from quarry lying in their
line of battle. repulsed counter at
tacks and caused explosions in hos
tile positions.
Southeastern theater: The crossing of
the lower Drina. the Save and the
Danube rivers by o-Hungarian
and German forces has continued.
Serbian attempts to hamper or frus-
trate our operations were every
where unsuccessful