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Show RUSSIAN FORTS OP GRODNO IRE MP FOE Defenses Are Given Up After Two of Number Are Destroyed by Teuton Teu-ton Artillery. WHOLE FORTRESS MAY HAVE FALLEN Offensive Makes Progress Along Entire Front, With Exception of Region Near Riga. LOXDOX, Hflpt. 2, :40 p. m. Except Ex-cept in the region of Kiga, where the HuBviann grc presenting a nolid front to Field Marxhal on Hindnburg. tb Austro-German offenfivn in again making mak-ing headway, and a they have been doing for four month, the Russian tnfopt have renamed their MrltMftWSl movement. Th weMern forU of (Jrodno were evacuated after two of j thrm were destroyed by the heavy I gun and stormed by the irrman infantry, in-fantry, and it U considered extremely j likely that the whole fortress lias already al-ready been left to its fate, for it waa no longer tenable after the Germans had crossed the (irodno Vilna railway, which they did at two foints, and had penetrated the forest of Bielovicr.h, to the outheaat of the town. Vilna doubtlwR will be the next objective of the AuMru Germans on this front. Keport.s Successes. Jn the soutbran Vienna also reports re-ports a series of uceevses, which have virtually driven the Kussians out of Galicia ; they now hold only a very narrow strip between the Sereth river and ttearahia, Arosa the border io the latter provinee, the Austrian state, the RuMiaus set fire to a number of villages, which might indicate a further I retreat. Thus the hopes raied in the j allied countries bv recent successes that Russia at last was making a stand, have been dissipated. Kvery where the Austro Germans rtaim to be advancing, but they have not raptured of late any great number of BBM or guns. The Russian guns have beeu kept well behind the infantry in-fantry and arp quick 1 v moved back ( when the rear guards are unable longer to hold off the invaders. There is some talk of an advance on Kiev, but the distance to that city Lfl considerable and the country over which it would have to be made is difficult for the movement of troops. Gains Are Claimed. On the western front the Germans claim to have recovered trenches which they Inst in the middle of August in the Vosges, while the French simply refer to the heavy' artillery engagements, engage-ments, which have been the feature of the last nine days, with no suggest ion of what they foreshadow. Increased activity in the Dardanelles is shown in all the official reports. Besides Be-sides their successes in capturing an important position east of Suvla bay, which dominates one of the Turkish HneB of communication, the British have sunk four more Turkish trausports in the straits, while tho fire of the ships across Gallipoli peninsula has made the movement of Turkish troops by either land or sea more difficult. According to the Turks, mine sweepers have been busy at the entrance en-trance of the straits, suggesting that an attack is contemjdnted by the allies from another direction. A dispatch from Rome says that the Austrians have evacuated Rovcreto, which recent Italian advances had threatened to cut off. An official report re-port from the same capital claims a number of successes for the artillery and infantry on different fronts. BIG GUNS STILL ACTIVE, DECLARE FRENCH REPORTS PARIS, Sept. 2, 11:36 p. m. The following fol-lowing official communication waa Issued by the war office tonight : In Belgium, replying to a bombard bom-bard men t directed against the town of Nleuport and the sectors of Stenstrnate and Boeslnghe, our artillery ar-tillery brought Into play an efficacious effica-cious fire against the bomb throwers and batteries in action and against the osfembllcs and parks of the enemy. tin the Artota front there has been an exchange of bombs nnd grenades j at the sap heads. Between t lie Somme (Continued on Page Four.) GERMAN FORCES TAKE FORTRESS OF GRODNO (Continued from Page One.) and the Oise our batteries have silenced si-lenced the fire of the German artillery ar-tillery in the environs of Arman-court Arman-court and Canny. The enemy has fired a number of incendiary shells on Soissons and the region roundabout. round-about. A bombardment. Intense and reciprocal, re-ciprocal, has taken place on t lie Aisne front, between VI lie Aux Bois and Godal, in Champagne and on the western outskirts of the Argonne. A cannonade has occurred in Lorraine and in the Vosges, in the sector of the Fecht. |