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Show RUSSIANS STOP NEW OFFENSIVE OFTHETEUTDNS Opening Attack of Expected Ex-pected Drive Launched South of Narocz Lake. ' VIOLENT INFANTRY ASSAULT FOLLOWS Petrograd Reports Repulse of Enemy Along Whole Line; Fighting in Car-' Car-' pathians Slackening. SprLI Cdhle by ArranR.mftnt with LnnGon Telegraph aod International New Sprvica.) LONDON, Sept. 23. The new German Ger-man offensive in Bussia, aimed at stopping stop-ping the drive on Kovel and Lemborg, appears to have begun. What ia thought to have beon the opening attack in tho expected new drive was launched yesterday south of Narocz lake, cast of Vilna. It was ushered in by the emission of great quantities of gas and followed by violent vio-lent infantry assaults in denso massea. The BusBinn war office thiB afternoon fisserted that the Teutons wore driven back on the whole line of attack. Further Fur-ther to the south, near the railway intersection, inter-section, southeast of Baronovitchi. the Germans also liberated gas, but no infantry in-fantry attacks were made. Drive Against -Minsk. Both offensive operations are believed to usher in a drive against Minsk, the important railway city southwest of iVUna, which Hindenburg tried vainly to reach in his drive last fall. Naroteh lake lies north of the Vilna-Minsk railway. rail-way. Baronovitchi is on the Brest- ', Litovsk railway. The distance from both points of attack to Minsk is about seventy-five miles. Borlin is silent on those operations. The German war office reports the ! repulse of strong Russian attacks near i Korytnit7.af southeast of Vladimir- Yolynski. The fighting in the Car- pathians is reported by Berlin to be i slackening. Vienna tonight announced officially i that tho Rumanians were driven back south of Dorna Vatra in the wooded i Carpathians in a counter-attack. Petrograd Statement. The text of the Russian statement follows: Western front: Yesterday morning, morn-ing, in the region southwest of Lake Narocz. the enemy launched a rjas attack lasting two hours. In the intervals between the waves of gas the enemy attempted to attack at-tack in dense columns, but was driven back on each occasion to his j trenches by our machine gun, rifle ! and artillery fire. j In the region of the villages of j Darevo and La Buzy, southeast of Baranovichi, the e-nemy also liberated liber-ated gas. ! Russian advance guards made a surprise attack on a Turkish forti- i fid post near Giumichan, in the ! Caucasus, breaking through the position po-sition and inflicting severe losses on the Turks. A greater part of the camp stores were burned by the Russians. Black sea: Off the port of Eregli (Asia Minor) one of our torpedo boat squadrons sank three steamers steam-ers and several sailing vessels loaded load-ed with coal. Turkish Report. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 23. via London. Lon-don. 5:15 p. m. An official statement issued is-sued this afternoon save: Felahie (Mesopotamia) front: There was an exchange of artillery and infantry in-fantry fire and bombs. Enemy troops attempted to advance In detachments, but were repul.-ed. Caucasus from: There were skirmishes skirm-ishes henveen patrols and reconnoiter-iriK reconnoiter-iriK parties. In an attack September IS on Tf hoi a ol;ada we found great quantities quanti-ties of dumdum bullets. East of Suez we forced enemy-troops enemy-troops in tho neighborhood of Tavaie wells to retreat. Italians Repulse Austrians. ROME, Sept. 23, via London. 5:o0 p. m. On the Carso plateau, over which the Italians are attempting; to advance In the direction of Trieste, a heavy attack was made lust night by the Austrians. They penetrated Italian trenches, the war office of-fice fl nnounced toda v, but subsequently were driven out. The statement continued: con-tinued: "Hostile aeroplanes dropped bombs on Monte Vecrhio, Monte Maggloie, Vi-cenza Vi-cenza and the district of Mlsurina. on the upper Ansiei, without causing any damage." |