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Show divisions especially distinguished themselves In the Argonne a small advance was made on our part to improve our position po-sition at J.a Fille Morte. The movement move-ment brought us the desired result, besides securing for us as prisoners four officers and 250 men. On the hill at Combres the enemy positions were blown up and blocked up yesterday and the day before by extensive mine explosions. Eastern theater, arms' group of Field Marshal von Hindenburg: Opposing Op-posing forces which were pushed back yesterday on the southwestern front of Dvlnsk attempted to make a stand in a position situated more to the rear. They were attacked and repulsed. South of Lake Drlsitiata a cavalry engagement en-gagement is taking place. Enemy Is Repulsed. The operations by the army of General Gen-eral von Eichhorn in the battle of Vllna, which led to the enemy's being be-ing repulsed across the Lake Marcoz-Smorgon-Wischnew line, resulted in the capture of a total of seventy officers. of-ficers. 21,908 men, three cannon, seventy-two machine guns and large quantities of baggage which the enemy was forced to leave behind. An Inventory In-ventory of this booty could not be taken until now because of our quick advance. The figures previously reported re-ported are not included in those given here. South of Smorgon our attack Is making progress. Northeast of Wischnew we have "broken through enemy positions. On this occasion twenty-four officers and 3300 men were taken prisoners and nine machine ma-chine guns captured. Army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria: The bridge heads east of Baronovichi are now in our possession, after a battle bat-tle for them. Prisoners to the number num-ber of 360 were captured. Army of Field Marshal von Macken-sen: Macken-sen: The situation is unchanged. The army of General von Linsingen has forced its way across the Styr below Lutsk. Under pressure of this success the Russians are in. full retreat re-treat north of Dubno along the entire en-tire front. FOES CHECKED IS REPORT OF THE GERMANS BERLIN, Sept. 28, via London, 4:59 p.m. The Germans not only have stopped the general offensive of the allies oh the western west-ern front, but by counter-attacks have gained considerable territory for themselves, them-selves, according to today's official statement state-ment by army headquarters. The text of the statement follows: Western theater: The enemy continued con-tinued yesterday his attempts to break through our lines, without achieving any result, On the contrary, con-trary, he suffered in many places very considerable losses, besides bringing us an appreciable gain In territory. Our counter-attack resulted in our capturing twenty officers and 750 men, increasing the number of prisoners taken in this locality to 3397 men. Including In-cluding a number of officers. Nine additional ad-ditional machine guns were captured. cap-tured. At Souchez. Angres and Roclincourt, and also along the entire front from the Champagne to the Argonne. attacks at-tacks by the Frencn were repulsed without a break. Tactics Criticised. Tn the region of Souain the enemy actually brought forward masses of cavalry, showing a remarkable lack of appreciation of the situation. Naturally, Natural-ly, many of them were shot down and the others forced to flee as quickly as possible. During the repulse of these attacks at-tacks the Saxon reserve regiment and the troops of the Frankfort-on-Main |