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Show RUSSIANS FIGHTING 10 ESCAPE CAPTURE Vitn Army Able to Keep Its I iUM ot Retreat Open by Rear Guard Actions. GERMAN LOSS HEAVY French Airmen Bombard Stuttgart, Capital of Wuerttemberg. tSpv-t! iN t; AirBnsemeni iih LBdo:i ltilr I Ttlfrmph tud Icterotttioo! Nrs t'oivlc.! LONDON. Sept. gt -Whilo still tjffhtUg to cut oS the Russian Vilna J arinv . which is keepiujj its lino of re fcntt opfJB bv heavy rear-nuard u.'Uon-, the Germans have turnii their ntten fioM io Drmsk ami are puttiug forth 'teniondoua efforts to rapture the bridije-heai bridije-heai poition on the Dvina. A Berlin ofFieial statement tonigh'. pSTtfl that Von llindenburg ' forces have broken through the llujsian h9 HrM southwest of D ink on a front of nearly two mitctt. CAptoiag --00 pjis-I pjis-I oners and six machine fciin:. That IVtrograd is eiinistic oer the outlook tor holding Dviusk aud the 'Pina iq indicated in dispatches taed by the Russian ceusor touight. One o i these sa that the Oermaun are hurting hi'jf foree of men against the defend , inn armies; that reat uumoeit of heavN jins have been brought up and that j aphy xiatini; shells ;t.e being used agaiust the Ruivsian.-. Great I'ncertaintv. The uneertaiDty felt rvardiuj; Drmak is uidK-ated b the passage "as late as Tuesday Dviosk remained in Russian hand?. ' Military authorities in Petrograd estimate es-timate u'ermau lobes around VUua, Oronay anil Grodno at 230.000. In an effort to hem in the Russians, who. hang made good their immediate retreat from Vilna, are falling back in the direction of Miosk. Von Hinden burg's southern groups and the armies of Prince Leopold of Bavaria are press ing to the eastward in a movement to out across in front of the retiring ar mies. The Bavarians have occupied Ostrow, a few miles southwest of the important railway junction of Haranovitehi, on the ViJna-Bovno railway, while those which cut the line south of Lida are now well to the east. The fall of Lida id expected within a few days. Advancing Slowlv. Von Markensen '& armies are reported to be astride the Brest-Litovak-Mintk railway, advancing from the south, but thev are moving slowly, following their emergence from the lnarshe. and the Russian? fear less from their movements than from those of the other groupg further fur-ther north. In the Volhynian triangle the Russians Rus-sians are 'itill on the offensive and are reported to be launching brisk attacks against the AustriaDs around Doubno. the fortress recently captured by the Austrians. The Russian successes in this region, it is believed, will force 'the transfer of large forces from other sections of the front to support the Aus-I Aus-I trians. FRENCH AIRMEN BOMBARD PALACE AT STUTTGART (Special Cfc! bj Arrmmrnt nitft lymdon Dtilr Telegraph and International New. Serrlea.) PARIS, Sept. 22. A flotilla of French and English aeroplanes today made a trip of 110 miles across the border bor-der to Stuttgart, capital of Wuerttemberg, Wuerttem-berg, and bombarded the royal palace and the railroad station with more than 100 shells. The airmen also shelled a German barracks at Middelkerk and the railroad station at '.'onflaus and returned re-turned to French territory tonight. All along the route the airmen wero cannonaded by the Germans, but they succeeded in reaching their base without with-out accident. Xo official report has yet been made of the extent of the damage done or the number of casualties. According to the official statement issued is-sued tonight by the Freoch war office, "the 'attack was made in retaliation for Ihexbombardment of open towns and i jvilian'populations of Tancc and England. Eng-land. ' ' The trip of the aviatois was not only one of the longest, but also the most important of the aerial warfare. It demonstrates that the allies have at last placed in operation their long pre dieted plan of using the aeroplane on an extensive scale with which to cope with the Zeppelins. The roval pnlae which was bombard t: todav is on the east side of the public pub-lic square of Stuttgart and in the heart of the eity. It was built in 1 746 and is now seldom occupied by the King of Wuerttemberg, being considered mostly I as a museum. It is filled with price I (Continue on Pa6 Three.) RUSSIANS FIGHTING TO ESCAPE CAPTURE (Continued from Pago One.) Vfis nain timis, sculpt uros an. I other IW oiks of art. The principal railroad station at Stutt gart la located at the comer of the j SchJoss and Friederi-h streets. |