The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-08
Germans Gust British From
Newly Captured Trenches
After Sharp Struggle
AMERICAN IS KILLED
IN RAID ON HOSPITAL
Russian Army Stifens Resist
ance and Occupies Strong
Positions -Kerensky Praises
Loyalty of Officers


Paris. Sept. THE entire caotn0
has resigned. President Poincarc y
holding his acceptance In abeyance
pending consultation with the prcsas
dents of both OF Inc parliamentary
chambers. II Is expected Premier
Ribot will be asked to remain In OF.
fec and form new cabinet.
Rome Sept THE decisive prcs-
sure" of the italian army against tins
Austrians to the northeast of Gorf1ia
continues, General Cadorna teie-
grained from feld headquarters to-
dav Three officers and col men were
captured Yesterday.
The bitter fight in the Carso sectcr
has slackened somewhat The Aus
trians have suffered heavy losses IN
the last few days. The official rs-
port states that Austria continues 10
throw her best troops in vain on
slaughts against Cadornas forces
These counter -thrusts are becoming
| fewer. however. and indications ara
that the Hapsburg armies are settling
d, wn TO strictly defensive warfare
,rnofficial estimates place the NUM-
Der of prisoners taken by the ltahane
to date at 10000, and the total AUS
! TRAN losses in the drive al 10000.
! British Admit Reverse.
Iond m Sept IA British reverse
ST the hands Of the Teutons in the
+ Frezenherg sector northeast OF Ypres.
was admitted by the war Office today.
/ Two strong German counter attacks
! succeeded In throwing the British out
/ of positions they had gained yester-
| day and forced them to retire TO thef
original lines Otherwise there were
only minor actions and artillery dueie
on the Angle German front.
/ s!nrth of the Aisne a German STIR
prise attack was snuffed out in It's in
| cipcncv by the French gun fire In
4 the last two days the French eagged
three German machines and drove
/ twelve others out of control.
| Two thousand Ave hundred ktlo-
i grams of protectiles were thrown ny
! French fters on German military sta
lions behind the front Wednesday.
! Deliberate Raid On hospitals.
Bombs hurled FROM a feet of Ger
/ man aeroplanes snufed out the Eta
| OF one America officer and wounds
j ed more or less seriously eight Antert-
cans In whSs n described as de-
| liberate raid ~SSn British American
! hospitals In ~ French coast city last
/ Tuesday.
The h0sritais alta ewe6 are occupied
by St. Louis ard Harvard contiagents.
which were among the first to arrfve
! in France after Americas entrances
into the war The Harvard unit wAs
most severely hit by the raid
! Five of the sixteen wounded AT thc
Harvard units hospital were mem.
( hers Of the American hospita! STAFF.
! Ten were patients. So far as II knowas
m g.
/ pitfalls.
Germans Push Eastward
Teutor cavalry continues hard on
j the heels of the retreating Russians
I north of the Riga front. There are
unnafstakeable signs of a gradual
! sttffeninc OF the Russiar rear guard
resistance Advices from petroErad
state that the Russians probably VIII
make stand on the line just below
the railway center of vendor. Mean-
while the menace to the Friedrich
stadt- Bwinsk sector OF the Russian
front, which the Teutons are trying
to force into retiremen nv their vida
sweep northeastward from RIGA
grows more grave.
I Dispatches from Petrograd quote
! General Alexieff. former Russian chief
of staff. as warning against forth-
coming Teuton drive on the RumAn-
/ ian front.
! The Germans took forty guns N
the ca pture of Buenamuende. So far
! only submarines have appeared In
! the Gulf OF Riga. no other German
war ships. according to Petrograd,
Russian Army Now In Order
/ Petrograd Sept THE general
staff has issued a statement to the
effect that order has been completely
restored among the army retreAtinG
from Riga -Friedrichstadt front
"Our retreating army" says the
statement forms continuous un-
broken line and is delivering violent
counter -thrusts on the TANKS. ustnk
as its base the Segewold -Lemb1f8
line
In military circles it is confidsntly
/ expected that the Russians will make
| determined stand in the mountains
Gus regions of the Segeweld -Wenden
sector The situation is compAre6
with that which followed the German
break through" in Galicia last month
when the<reuton advance was halted
| in the Zburoff basin at time when
the world looked for a general cave-
! in of the whole southern Russian
army,
/ In a solemn manifesto to the Off,
hcers of the Russian army. Prcmte1
/ Kerensky pays a glowing trihutt tQs
their immortal services to the cAu9os
/ of the revolution during five montAe
OF caos and cowardice among thes
/ ranks.
From the first day OF the neW
Russian freedom says the premter,s
/ the officers have had to face dcfianc4s
and undeserved reproaches a. well -
personal insults on the part * IN
biased mob which, by tradition. saNs
lin their uniform the symbol Of d.
/ old regime:
Z "In all the recent trials and nA11
fortunes the Russian officers dteplAye4
hereto vnior. self-sacrif1cing dsvueto
~ tAa sofA4era and II, the Rnv0Innf -