Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-05
FRESH PROGRESS EAST
OF VILLAGE OF FOREST
This Advance Seemingly Out
flanks Combles and Apparently
Renders 1t Untenable.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN RUSSIA
hoimnnians Continue TO Press Adj
vantage against Austrians ON
Pennsylvania Front.

LONDON. September 4-Keepins uo
their strong offensive against the Ger
mans north aud south or the somme
River. in France. the Anglo French
forces have again driven their lines
forward and captured important Ger
man positions.
South of the Sommc the village OF
Soyecourt and part OF the village OF
NeFmandovillcrs have been captured
while. seemingly more important sttll.
the French have made fresh progress
east OF tho village OF Forest which
lies one and onc-half miles southeas,
OF the railroad town OF Combles-a
gain which. taken with the capture OF
Guillemont on Sunday. seemingly out.
tanks Combles and apparently renders
1t untenable. More than 5000 Germans
have been made prisoner north and
south of the Somme during the last two
days.
On the British right wing progress is
reported north OF Falemont farm, while
"a German attack near the Mououet
farm was repulsed. In the Yerdun
sector Paris records fresh gain near
Flcury.
Berlin. in admitting tho claims OF
British and French Successes in the
says the battling over the eighteen
mile military front from Beaumont to
the Somme was of the greatest ferocity.
Tho Germans held their ground at
Thiepval. north OF Pozicrcs. and near
Ginchy. but Cuillemont village and
wood were lost. as likewise was Ginchy,
hut a counterattack of the Germans
won back portion of the latter town.
RUSSIANS ADVANCING
TO HUNGARIAN FRONTIER
Again there is heavy lighting on the
front in Russia. west and southwest ot
I.utsk and north OF Zborow and near
Erezezany. in Gaiicia. with the Rus
slams generally the aggrcssors. Petro-
grad controvcrts the assertion of Ber-
lin that the Russians obtained only
local successes near Brezezany by the
declaration that the Russians won n
victory over the Teut ons and took 2.641
prisoners. III the Carpathian region,
according to PetroGrad, the Russians
have captured IN entire series of
heights and are advancing to the Hun
garian frontier.
All along the Transylvania front the
Roumanans continue to press their adj
vantage against the Austro- Hungarian
forces. Here they captured several adj
ditional towns. and now are said TO he
bombarding the town of Hernannstadt,
which is second in Importance only to
Kronstadt. The German and Bulgarian
forces are attacking along the entire
front between Dobrudja and Bulgaria
Near Koemar, Berlin reports. the Rou-
nanians were driven back with the loSs
OF 700 men taken prisoner.
In Albania the Italians east OF Avlona
have taken the villages of Kutai and
Brizar and Monte Gradist
Tho Germans have surrendered to
tho British Dar-es-S Salaam. Gcrmany's
chief seaport in East Africa
Considerable fighting is in progress
I'm the Austro-Italian theater. without
any important changes in terrain hav-
Ing occupied. Berlin admits the losa
OF an airship on the night of September
>. 1t Is probable that this was tho
Zeppelin which London reported was
brought down during the raid on the
east coast OF England Saturday night.