Show GERMANS TAKE VILNA AND CLOSE TRAP AROUND ARMY OF RUSSIANS SINGLE i 0 OUTLET UTLEY f 4 l REMAINS f C No Help May Be Expected From North for Czars Czar's Men in int t Railroad Triangle Between I f Vilna Lida and and 5 7 They Must Fight for Lives j MAKE HEADWAY AGAINST GERMANS AUSTRO-GERMANS SOUTH General Ivanoff Mule Able to Hold Holds s Von Van Mackensen Away FromN From N Fortress ss of Minor r Victories Reported by Both j r r Sides on the Western Front MAY TA TAKE E ARMS 1 f I Berlin Sept 19 The The Russian t t I city of Vilna at which the armies I IO of Field Marshal von Hindenburg I had been driving and which was wasY I I stubbornly defended until nearly Y i t 1 j I surrounded by hostile forces has i t 4 1 I been occupied b by the Germans it I I Iwas was officially announced by German German Ger- Ger j Ger-j man army headquarters today t I I If It i iT t I f I T ONDON Sept Thc Ti 10 The Germ Germans ans Lava have occupied Vilna and b by a wide sweeping sweeping- movement to 10 th the north t of that cit city have succeeded s in almost r entirely surrounding ing a n portion of the Russian army which is fighting in inthe inthe in the tie railway triangle between Vilna Lida Iida and antl y At an any rate the Russian forces in this district either must fight their way a out eastward or retire in a southeasterly direction for the only railway ay left entirely in their han hands handsy y is that winch which runs from Vilna to Lida Lilla and thence to The army of or Field Marshal larsh l von on enburg which took Vilna and has hM reached a. a to the east cast of ot Vilna i Is la working In close operation co-operation with that of ot Archduke ulee Leopold of ot Da Bavaria varia in an effort to catch a part o of the Russian army an operation which has r been so often orten tried without success since the tho Germans Austro-Germans Germans commenced lh Ib l drive In wc western tern Galicia in early 11 toy Arc tre r Hopeful The Iio Russians express confidence ence in inthe r 1 the outcome of the battle but with I their northern armies held closely closel along alon pi P the lna D and the German flank well protected by their cavalry which ret re- re t occupied Ids across tho the VII VII- l na Petrograd railway It seems tc lIMe Bible that any aid alII can come como to them c from that direction K The Thc battle seeminglY must be fought tous-ht rJ out cut between tho troops troop now In the district dis dis- dis r- r between Vilna Lida Llda and I with tho the assistance of ot an any reinforce- reinforce r lento ments that can an be lIe spared to hold the Gernian force torce which has hat reached VIII VI VI- leika II r At t the southern end of ot tho the lino Genera Gentral Gen- Gen era eral Ivanoff 1 still HUH Is keeping keeping- Field Marshal Marvon Mar Mar- hal von on Mackensen at firms arms length from th the fortress of or the kp key t to the route to TIer Kiev and III In counter at- at lacks tuk ha has retaken a a number of vil- vil l. l both In and Galicia Von Yoo il It H seems apparent rent from the tho Inability of of t the thc Austro Germans to 1101 hold 1 their ft In iii the thc southern area that I j they have sent reinforcements from that t trout front to Marshal von on 1 8 northern army which as Ji t heretofore is expected to score tho U success 7 1 Both the thc Germans and the thc French Bairn minor victories on Oil tho the W western front but neither there in tho the Italian tt e nor In III tho Dardanelles have hae i- i jy nt y or of great moment been rc rc- rc ported L I The fhe political situation in III tho tin Balkans 1 Is perplexing anI and uncertain The fht Bulgarians 1 having oh d what they I I Wanted from Turkey In n the ce cession sion of S K a railway a line lino appear to 10 he lit well sat flat ti for the thu present Cut But there th now r J Is talk folk In Berlin of oC tho Bulgarians tal cal tak- ring b by r force rc I if t tho they can cannot not get It Ite Otherwise e the portions of Macedonia taken from Crom them bv by tho the f Pr and ands 4 Greeks s the tho last last war It Ji asserted the Bulgarians have called to to the colors all tho the Macedonian ro- ro r rov v n no V no w In Bulgaria and that gen gen- en- en i I l- l lally ally hero thero IB lit u a warlike feeling In I fence among tho the 1 Mill III M r. r But BUI with Bulgaria surrounded etl by hy Greece and Rumania and her coasts COUts subject ct to attack b by Anglo- Anglo I reach Italian Hallan and Russian fleets it r lI believed cd here Bulgaria will JI hesitate etore throwing in her lot with tho the thoI Central I Powers and Turkey Turkey Is ls said fald to lo b bt 1 J having J her own d T. T s over the thc cession c-a c on of ot tho the Dc- Dc railway J. J The In n this strip of or land Js is said n to oLe be in revolt against being placed tinier n r the Buli o |