Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-09
Cars Men HurI Enemy Bat
terry Into Ravhe South of
Baranoff in Carpathians.
STUBBORN BATTLE ON
ALONG RIVER NARAIUvKA
Slavs Opposed BY Germans and
Turks in the Direction
Of Halicz.

BERLIN. September Q, via London.
Forces OF the central powers IN
the Carpathian mountains northwest
Of Kapul, says today's Official report
iszued by the German general stan,
yielded yesterday before the pres
sure exerted by the Russians.
LONDON. September Sin the Car
pathians. south of Baranoff, the Rus
slams have stormed a series of heights.
They took 500 prisoners, the latest Pet
rograd announcement says. and cap
tured a mountain battery of several
cannon which had been thrown into
the ravines.
German and Turkish troops are en-
gagged in stubborn fighting with Rus
| sian forces in Galicia on the River
Naraiuvka, in the direction of Halicz,
according to the Russian statement.
A counter attack made by the Turks
and Teutons, the statement adds. was
| repuised by the Russians.
Renewal of violent Russian attacks
| in the Carpathians is reported also in
the official Austrian statement of Sep
| tember 6. It is said that except for
| some small advantages the determined
| efforts of the Russians to advance
were thwarted. East of Zlochon. in
Galicia, forty miles east of Lemberg,
the Russians attacked after heavy ar
tillery preparation. They were re-
pulsed by the Austrian artillery fire,
Vienna declares.
Regarded General Attack.
The present operations in Galicia
49,
Petrograd as a Russian general at
tack" says a Reuter- dispatch from
the Russian capital. The military
critics comment on the difficulty facing
the central powers in being driven to
| fight on two fronts. namely, against
| Gen. Sakharon on the east and Gems.
Scherbatchoff and Letchitzky on the
south
Regarding the heavy lighting in the
| region of Halicz, southeast OF Lemberg.
where the Germans' Austrfans and
| Turks are all fighting stubbornly. the
critics say the Russians have overcome
| tremendous resistance and now are
| menacing the only railway In the line
| of retreat for the Halicz garrison. This
line parallels the Dniester for some
| distance and runs through Chodoron
| to Lemberg.
Russian Official Report.
The Russian statement follows:
"Germano- Turkish counter attacks
on the River Naraiuvka, in the direc-
ton of Halicz. were repelled by our
| fire. In this area stubborn fighting
continues.
TN the wooded Carpathians, south
| of Baranoff, our troops carried series
of heights, taking more than 500 pris-
oners and capturing five machine guns
and a mountain battery of several
cannon, which had been thrown into
| the ravines.
Activity in Gulf Of Riga.
BERLIN. September s.-The follow
| ing statement was issued today by the
admiralty:
September our naval aeroplanes
dropped bombs on hostile naval forces
off Arensburg, on Oesel Island Tin the
Gulf of Riga). Near Zevel hostile
aeroplane was forced down.
"The night of September . one of our
naval aeroplanes dropped a large num-
ber of bombs with good results on the
Russian aeroplane station at Runeo, on
the Gulf of Riga.
September Russian gunboat bonn
barded the north Courland without sue
cess. 1t was pursued and bombed by
naval aeroplanes.
The same day tho Dutch steamer
Niobe with contraband was brought In
by our naval forces in the North sea"