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Show i MEW WAR CHIEF : ' my strike at THEjlSiiS ! Volhynia Regarded Most Probable Scene of Teuton Drive Ordered by Von Hindenburg. INTENSE FIGHTING SOUTH OF LEMBERG Fortune of War Favors the Muscovites in the Carpathians; Car-pathians; Berlin Admits Recapture of Smotreo. ! (Sp" lal "l-.le tiy An anRi.'inen t wliii London Dillj 'Jlfgra (Mi ami International News Service. ) i LONDON, Sept. -2-2. Will Kimien- burg strike in the cast?"' is the qtics-t qtics-t inn foremost in the mini Is of military rilics here, and tho tendency of the ( general upi uion among them is toward : the belief that t hu new (iennan chief, j of t he great geneni I staff is preparing for a Kigali tic effort to materialize) his I of't-repeatcd theory that ' ' Russia must be beaten first. ' ' ' r'open ha gen advices a re to I lie effect that the kaiser has arrived on the Kovel front. Dispatches yesterday reported the arrival of Turkish contingents on the German lines facing Ria. The ofh-; ofh-; rial announcements of the last few days i strongly indicate a gradual resumption of the offensive by the Germans. Volhvnia is looked upon as the most probable scene of the expected Teuton drive. A successful push from Kovel eastward anil tho recapture of 1 lie Vol-hynian Vol-hynian fortresses of Dubno and Lutsk, and possibly Kovivq, the third of the ; triangle, would compel the Russians to ; withdraw their lines now menacing i Halic, and Lemberg in order to escape i envelopment. A subsequent drive in the i north, with Riga and Dvinsk as the im- mediate objectives, is looked for as the logical sequence of success in Volhynia ; and Galicia. ! The German war office this afternoon reported the capture of 7o0 Russians ; m est of Lutsk. It is added that the j Muscovites are still holding "small por-j por-j tions ' ' of the Teuton positions near Korynit.a. twenty-six miles southeast of Vladimir-Voly nski. between the Sereth and Stripa rivers near Zborow, forty-nino miles southeast of Lemberg, intense fighting continues. n the Narajovka river, northeast of Italic,, great artillery duels are raging, foreshadowing a new'battle. Petrograd stated there were "no de-I de-I velopments ot importance. " I Considerable Russian forces have LIEUTENANT GUYNE- MER, French aviator, j who has sixteen "kills" of ! hostile aviators to his credit, having brought down another German aeroplane in the series of combats on the Somme front. I & ' I H , i a ""tr ' ' Jv . I . r , v ' I t h ' . , i t I V ! 1 X I , J i 3 withdrawn to tho Eunianian theater. This is heralded by German forces cs facilitating a new offensive in the east. In the Carpathians the fortune of war seems to be still favoring the Russians. Rus-sians. Berlin officially admitted today the loss of the Smotreo summit, but added 'that attacks everywhere else were repulsed. The German statement says: Carpathians: The ; Smotreo summit sum-mit again has been lost. Continued efforts of the liussians on Babalu-dowa Babalu-dowa again have been without success, suc-cess, owing to the tenacity of our brave Chas? ours. Enemy attacks in the Tatarea sector and north of Dorna Watra have been bea ten off. Sicbenburgen (Transylvania) theater: the-ater: There is nothing to report. Italians Make Progress. KOMK, Sept. "22, via London, (i p. m. Italian troops have made further progress on the Trentino front, the war office announced today. ( ' Persistent bad weather again interfered with the activity of the troops yesterday throughout the whole theater of oper- ations." The statement says: "Nevertheless, "Never-theless, some further progress is reported report-ed in connection with our persistent advance ad-vance at the head of Vanci CiBinon val-lev val-lev and tow'ard the summit of Mont Sief, in the upper Cordevale. On the Julian front there were limited artil-lerv artil-lerv actions. Hostile batteries shelled Gorizia without doing any harm." |