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Show Li of STRATEGY flJUH ,niy Retreating From That City Did Not Try to Evade Foe, but Fought the Encircling Forces From One Side While Other Muscovite Armies Struck From Other Side. IGHT CONTINUES, BUT ARMY IS SAFE emoval of Austrian ind German Troops to Italian and Servian Fronts Weakens the Pressure Against Czar's line and Prevents a Decisive Teutonic Victory. Vic-tory. tt. kite br Arrangement with Lotidn Daily pfapipfc ad Iniemaxornl News Service.! STBOGBAD, Sept 23. The Kus- tetreat from Vilna may rank as ' ::' the most difficult and brilliant r"-; of the RussiaD armies in the at war. The Germans had not J deost encircled the eity. but by brag off huge masses of cavalry. ksi by light infantry, had pierced 1 swept around from the north far the rear of the Russian communi- at Molodeehna and Lebedevor. le withdrawal from Vilna began not uent too soon. Further delay hare enabled the enemy to drive ilge behiad the Russians. Jot of Von Hindenburg 's efforts and Its were directed to compelling the Ba Vilna group either to fight ungrounded un-grounded or to retreat in a south-ihectioo. south-ihectioo. The latter course would f greatly confused the withdrawal faeral Everts 's and other armies toot the Shara. Ic order to avoid Jtonfusion, the Vilna group moved Pd, but. taking this course, had to to overthrow the enveloping col-J col-J Thus it came about that the lin? of the Vilna oroup had to 'se enemy coming from the east. ; ! elements at the crossings of the : Ptook on this strange character, ,ans turning their backs on Vil- J order to clear the line of retreat them. fcian Ruse Succeeds. s fcj?btins btili Proceeds, but from , ? '' mfmation, it is evident that ra51aM have successfully countered rhaps, completely driven off the ,, P"2 columns. ' ttT6"' Russian ''no is almost i'raightened out. Thanks ', J timimstance, the. armies south retreating Vilna group have a Wr task in resisting the at-Wf at-Wf on Eiehborn and Eseheltz, r Price Leopold. 2' militar.v observers regard ' with equanimity. Gen- L! V 'hey think' has a fiD "P-rt' "P-rt' for 9kil,fl maneuvering, . ii;i.'a-v ace the enemy at a seri-rfVaDta8e- Collateral proof that . ""s have lost hope of out-- out-- '' Everts may be seen in of hi, desperate efforts L k ,J- f Blnlalony and Lida and f, of Molchad, east of the n. ':0,t them terrible l03EeB-yy l03EeB-yy B ' rear the German y W "' agai,,Bt Vilna itfielf y t0 u"a'--t'ity in nans Defeated. rdUt0hBe8tern front von Maek- acti'v? th(! Lutsk reSion c,,n- . , ' ? to menace the Russian ' e rctr""t of Puhalle's L , "my to the left bank of the "Amount to an admission of lUrtror " this front' to which Germans attach such vast po-r po-r strategic importance th.,i , " ai8atc are pre-vJejopnient pre-vJejopnient of operations in turned on Pag71Sne RUSSIANS BOAST OF STRATEGY AT M i09VtlffM from Fag Qua.) ihe Vilna and Pvinsk theaters, since (he euni, in the absence of genuine teaerves. numt draw on the uurtht-rn t roops for reinforcrmeuU in the south. It is believed that the Austrian armies of Cenerals hankl and WOTTKll are on the Italian front, while Lmsin gen's and the fourth Austrian army are boinj; transferred to the Serbian houndHrv Hence onlv the armies of Von Mac ken sen and Von flail wit are available for the drafts. |