| Show CHECKS ASSAULT German Operations on Eastern S Front Have Come to Temporary Temporary Temporary Tem Tem- Standstill Petrograd rad Sept 27 The The German ag aggressive ag- ag I be-I on the eastern front has become be- be como come noticeably weaker during the past few tew days das With the tho Increasing Increasing- extent of oC their penetration of ot Russian territory the Impetuous strides with which the Germans for tor n a time ma made e fast headway against t the tho Russians carrying er e everything before belore them have been gradually shortening up At the same time the Russian opposition with the replenishment of oC the army's military military mili mill tar tary supplies Is growing dally daily more stubborn and resort is being had to toto toto toto to ba bayonet onet attacks with apparently all the confidence ence and vigor that carried the Russian arms last Jast winter to the I crests of the The efforts made to trap th the Russian Russian Rus Rus- I sian armies retreating retreating- from Vilna failed tailed as ns did similar efforts made last summer after aCtor the tho taking of ot Par Warsaw a notwithstanding that the opportunity for success ss In the Vilna region aPpeared appeared ap aP- up- up much more promising The as assaults assaults ns- ns upon D have been checked b by the brilliant defense of oC General Ruz- Ruz sk sky and the operations here have ha come to a a. temporary standstill due to the exhaustion of oC both combatants after da days s 's of oC battling Tho The Russian staff has Information that the Germans have hae undertaken a anew anew anew new grouping o of their forces for tor an extensive flanking operation from Crom the direction of ot Novo ovo Grodek southeast toward e antI and on tho the highway to the principal crossing of ot the great between Borl ow and th the Junction of ot the DeT- DeT with the thc p r. r This region Is 15 comparatively cl untouched by bj marshes and ancl forests and offers otters a favorable fa terrain terrain terrain ter ter- rain for such maneuvers ers East of Vilna stubborn battles are raging In the region of here herp the Germans have succeeded In advancing cing northward of ot to the eastward eastward eastward east east- ward of oC the railway running from to and Battles also are nrc progressing southwest o of r hut but tho the latter point and junction still remain In Innus nus Russian lan hands From Ll Llda Lida a and the river the Germans have succeeded In moving mo eastward to the village e of ot Ide where the they brought ht heavy artillery Into ac ac- ac tion This put putt a n stop to the progress of or the Russians toward the village of ot D By intensive op operations there the evidently ar are tr trying ing to flank lank tho the forested region between the Simultaneously they arc are Continuing their movement mO southeastWard southeastward southeastward southeast southeast- ward from Novo o Grodek In the direction direction direction tion of ot he ess and In an en endeavor en en- deavor to reach th the hl highway hWay from rom to as a movement di directly directly dl- dl at nt Minsk from the right bank of or the from Crom as s well vell as from l' l would bend the front considerably and ml might ht expose the German German German Ger Ger- man armies to attacks on their rear or their flank Clank |
