The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-26
Petrograd Claims To Have Taken
Fifteen Hundred Prisoners In
Vicious Assaults, But, Berlin
Says Attacks Were RepuIsed
FIGHTING UPON DNEISTER
70 RIVER BECOMES GENERAL
Struggle In Dobrudia District Said
To Be DwindIing Into Mere Ex-
change Of Artillery Fire Be-
tween the Warning Armies

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DARIS, September 25--The Rus,
i sian drive against Lemberg,
capital of Galicia is on again, &C
cording to the reports received here
last night from the eastern front.
Attacks by the troops under the
command of General Brussiloff,
against German trenches on the up
per Dneister developed into gene
raj engagement in which the Rus
slams claimed to have taken $500
prisoners from the Teutons, while
the reports from Berlin tell of the
repulse of the Slavs, and the cap
ture of $50 Slav prisoners.
Evidently determined to pierce
the heart of the Austrian crown
land before they have to face win
ter as a powerful ally of the Teu7
ton defense the Cars Galician ar
mics have resumed their offensive
with extreme vigor and the last
twenty-four hours saw some vio-
lent fighting at each of the three
vital parts of the Lemberg front
in which the bayonet played the
leading role.
No Substantial Gains
Up to late last evening no sub
stantial success had been won by
the attackers. They we're met
everywhere by a wall of steel and
iron, the Teutons having used the
last few weeks to reorganize, and
strengthen themselves for the SUI,
prene test. ,
BATTLES are raging in the direction
Of Zloczow and Haliez," says last
nights official report from Petrograd.
The German war Office statement
speaks of local cOmbats east and south
east of Brzezany. A','r'
These are the three main supports Of
the present Teuton line of defense and
to capture them is the strategic aim
Of the new Russian drive.
Bayonet Combats Many T.,
,ZloeEow hes thirty-seven miles al
most due east of Lemberg, Brzezany
fOTty-six miles southeast and Haliez
about sixty miles south Of the Galician
capital.
To reach ZlOczow the Russians a.
tackled with strong forces north of
ZboroV, twelve miles away, but were
repulsed, according to Berlin, partly
in bayOnet combats." II is here tint
the Russians stand nearest to Lem
berg.
In the Carpathians the fortunes
of battle continue to favor the Rus
SANS. Another series IF heights was
captured by the Muscovites according
to official Russian claims; while Berlin
asserts that only one, the Ploska height,
southeast of ZOlona, remained in the
hands of the attackers; while others
were retaken by the German counters,
Won Ebbens Commanding -
The Berlin statement names Gen
ernl Won Ebbens as commanding the
AustTO- ungarian army on the ZborOy
front. The statement is signed by
General Won Ludendorff, who was Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg's chief 81
staff in the east prior to Hindenburg's
appearance as head of the German gen.
eral staff. In taking his fright hand
man - with him into the supreme mill
tary body, Hindenburg followed the
precedent set in 1881 by the, elder Won
Moltke. 1t is assumed that he stipulat.
ed in accepting the Kaiser 3 appoint.
Inent that in ease of illness or abaenee
LudendOrf is to be acting chief OF the
general staff.
IAN official statement issued late last
night in Vienna says the Russians were
repulsed southwest of the Moldava.
Dobrudja Fight Dwindles
In the Dobrudja district the lighting
appears to have dwindled to mere ar
@ tillery exchanges. In the Transylyan.
ian Alps the fighting has progressed
but little. Reports from vienna last
night Indicated that the Rumanians
have attempted to regain the ground
lost at the mouth of the Vulcan pass,
! but vert, repulsed with heavy LOSSES.
The British on the Struma river bat
tlefelds, have been successful in their
attacks on the Bulgarian lines, and
have Te-erOssed the river at three
points, driving the Bulgars before them,
and taking considerable booty. The
Serbs also are reported to have made
much progress in the Macedonia fight.
ing, and to have advanced northwest
OF Kamaikclen, while the French in
their attacks against the GermpnsBni.
garian forces northwest of Florina,
have also won some ground.
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