Arizona republican., 1917-09-23
GERMANS MAKE NEW STROKE ON RUSSIAN NORTHERN FRONT
 AND PUSH TO DVINA'S BANK
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

In the midst of RussIas internal troubles has come another German stroke on the Russian northern front. resulting in the capture of the Bridge head and the town of Jacobstadt on the Dvina and the enforced retirement of the Russians to the eastern bank of the river
 The Germans gained possession of new territory on a front of approXi- mately 25 miles and six miles in depth, enabling them to push their lines to the west bank of the Dvina in this area. They took only 400 prisoners, but gathered in 50 guns from the abandoned positions
 Dramatic as this suddenly developed operation was it seems unlikely to de- veiop anything comparing in import ance in it's effect upon the general military situation with the desperate battle on the Flanders front.
 Loath to give up the valuable ridges the British wrested from them Thurs day, the Germans continue desperate counter attacks This fighting has been very costly to the Germans and the London official statement lays stress on their severe losses.
 The German command seems par tieularly reluctant to surrender the slight elevation east of Gheluvelt, close to the Ypres- Menin road. Fierce fighting developed there Saturday, the engagement centering about the posi- tion known as Tower Hamlets. Press dispatches indicated that up to mid afternoon there had been no cessation of the struggle, the tide of battle flowing back and forth within a mar row area.
 Berlin's official statement makes no n RllI i'm nf T the British. It records the fighting of Friday, the day following the initial British dash, as marked by continua- tion of British attacks along the Langemarck- -Hollebeke front, which were repulsed, and describes Satur- days engagements as fighting of local character which resulted in Ger man successes.
 Regarding the air fighting Thursday and Friday, the customary comparison is given by Berlin of German and en- tente losses in machines. Thirty nine hostile machines were shot down by the Germans, it is declared while only three German machines were lost This varies notably from the British off cial account, which mentions ten Ger man airplanes destroyed and six driven down out of control The probable loss of ten British machines classed as
  missing, is admitted
 Meanwhile as complement to the land lighting in BelgGIn, British war ships of the Belgian coast patrol have bombarded Ostend. where German naval works were shelled with results pronounced satisfactory. British avia- tors continued their extensive bombing operations behind the German lines. Ostend being one of the points success fully attacked by the aviators as well as the fleet
 The complete text of, the German and Austrian replies to the Papal peace note shows that neither lays down any definite terms as basis for peace. There was no officially expressed com ment in Washington but it was unof- ficially indicated that such examina tion as had been made of the docu- ments revealed no reason for alteration of the position of the United States. it's aims or it's intentions. An unof- ficlal expression from the British for eign office pointed to the lack of any mention of 'reparation' or .'restora- tion' in the German reply.