The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-03
Russians Can't Stop Enemy.


Russians Can't Stop Enemy.
Attic Russia's southern armies ap-
parently now are offering determined
resistance to the Austro-German ad-
vance the Teutonic drive seems to
have attained such an impetus that
the Russians are not yet able to cope
with it.
The Russian forces are now back of
their own soil along a wide section of
the front opposite the Galician border
and are fast being driven out of Bulk
owina. Czernowitch, the capital of
this Austrian crown land, yesterday
was occupied by Austrian troops and
Kimpolung, in the southern part of
Buckowina has been evacuated by the
Russians. Petrograd today admits a
further success for the Austro-Ger-
man columns operating along the
Dniester, chronicling the evacuation
of the western bank of the Zbrocz, at
its confluence with the Dniester near
Chotin. The Zbrocz, here marks the
Russian boundary.
The Teutonic advance in Bukowina
threatens to imperil the Russo
Rumanian front down the western
Moldavian border, while the drive
down the Dniester bids fair, if kept
up, to cut a slice off northern MOlda-
vina. 1t is conceded by Petrograd
that the Russian retirement is con-
tinuing between the Dniester and the
Pruth, the latter river marking the
northeastern Moldavian boundary.
London, Aug "A German drive
against Infantry Hill, east of Monchy
lie Preux was successful ir part, last
night, Field Marshal Haig reported
today. The enemy temporarily held
portions of the British front line.
Early at night the enemy renewed
his attempt to drive us from Infantry
Hill'' the statement said. ION half
mile front he succeeded temporarily
| in possessing himself of portion of
| our front line. At two points our
counter-attack regamed part of the
lost ground
Repulse Crown Prince.
Paris, Aug. 3.-Troops OF the Ger
man crown prince after an intense
artillery bombardment last night de-
| 1ivered several violent attacks against
| the French position near Cerny in the
Aisne region along a front of about
1,5OO yards The French official
statement issued this aft .rroon says
I that all the attacks were repulsed. On
! the Belgian front the bad weather
continues.
German News Censored.
: Copenhagen Aug. 3.-German
newspapers of Thursday morning con-
tain no details of importance on the
battle in Flanders beyond the official
1
| ents are as yet observing the battle
! from a safe distance near Charleville,
several hundred kilometres behind the
front, and endeavor to give the news
| from the scanty material supplied
| by the military censor. That the cor
respondents observed instructions is
| evidenced in all the newspapers by the
heading Specials from the Front
! A semi-officia1 survey of the Flan-
4 ders battle supplied by the German
general staff thru the Wolff bureau
mentions that Blk Schoote three times
| changed hands, the French retaining
| the village at nightfall but that the
| German lines gripped the villa e
/ north and east. The British, accord
/ ing to the survey, delivered the main
| thrust before Ypres and succeeded in
i-capturing Langemarck in addition to
other places mentioned by Field Mar
| shall Haig but were unable to hold
! Langemarck and St Julien in the face
| of a German counter attack and were
repulsed. The report seeks to give the
impression that only the immediate
| front line trench in any case was
| lost and carefully avoids any mention
of the depth of the entente gain
/ Cross and Star to Hindenburg.
Copenhagen, Aug. 3.-Expressine
his "boundless thanks Kaiser viii.
helm telegraphed Field Marshal Hin
denburg comforting on him the Gross
and Star of the Royal Order of the
i House of Hohenzollern.
Il take pleasure, my dear field mar
shall" he said, "at the conclusion oil
the third year of the greatest of al
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