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Show Violent Fighting Reported Re-ported oh Three Fronts, the Bayonet Playing the Leading Role; Czar's Troops Capture Several Heights in the Carpathians. Car-pathians. TEUTONS BEATEN IN RIGA SECTOR Desperate Battles in Progress in the Caucasus Cauca-sus Region; Turks Put to Flight at Some Points; Vienna Claims Repulse of the Russians. Rus-sians. (Special Cable by Arrangement with London Dally Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 0. The Russian drive against Lemhcrg, capital of Ga-licia, Ga-licia, is again in full swing. Evidently determined to pierce the lieart of the Austrian crown land .before .be-fore they have to fare winter as a powerful ally of the Teuton defense, the czar 's Galician armies have resumed re-sumed their offensive with extreme vigor, and tho last twenty-four hours saw some violent fighting at each of the three vital parls of the Lomherg front, in which the bayonet played the leading role. Up to late this evening do substantial advantages have been won by the attackers. They were met everywhere by a wall of steel aud iron, the Teutons having used: tho last few weeks to reorganize and strengthen themselves for a supremo test. Battles Raging. "Battles are raging in the direction of Zloczow and Raliez, " says tonight's official report from Petrograd. "The Gorman war office statement spealis of local combats east and southeast of Brzezany. These arc the three main supports of the present Teuton line of defense, and to capture them is the strategic aim of the new Russian drive, Zloczow lies thirty-seven miles almost due east of Lemberg; Brzezany, forty-six forty-six miles southeast, and Halicz, about sixty miles south of tho Galician capital. cap-ital. To reach Zloczow the Russians attacked with strong forces north of Zborov, twelve miles away, but were repulsed, according to Berlin, "partly in bayonet combats. ' ' ft is here that, the Russians stand nearest to Lemberg. Attempt at Diversion. ; Meantime the Germans during the last twenty-four hours endeavored to create a diversion possibly, too, to start a new-offensive new-offensive by attacking the Russians in the Ulca region, the first earnest attempt on this front in months. Russian Leftist ba ttalions. however, drove them back promptly In a counter-offensive cosily to the Teutons, according to Petrograd. In the Carpathians the fortunes of battle bat-tle continue to favor the Russians. Another An-other series of heluhts was captured by the Muscovites, according to official Russian Rus-sian claims, while Berlin asserts that onlv one, the Ploska height, southeast of Po-londa, Po-londa, remains In the hands of the attacker?. attack-er?. The Peril n statement names General von Kbens as commanding t lie Aust.ro-Humrarian Aust.ro-Humrarian army on the Zborov front. The statement is sicned by General von Jjiiden-dorff. Jjiiden-dorff. who was Field Marshal von Hin-denburc's Hin-denburc's chief of staff in the east prior to Tlindenburiz's appointment as head of the 1 Ereneral staff. In taking his "rlght-hnd i man" with him Inlo the supreme mllitarv hodv. I-lt'idenburcr followed the precedent ! set In ISM bv the elder Von Moltke. It : is assumed that he stipulated i?i neeept-i neeept-i r.z the kaiser's appointment thnt in case i nfillness or absence T.udendorff is to be I actios; chief of the penerai staff, i An official statement issued la tp to-' to-' nlcht In Vienna sa s the Russians were repulsed southwest of the Moldava. RUSSIANS CLAIM THE CAPTURE OF SEVERAL HEIGHTS FETTloriRAP. Srpt. 3, via Tendon. 3:10 p. m. Tht toxt of t:.e HusHim offlr-la! statement says: Western (Russianl frnrt: Tn V.if. r?-frlon r?-frlon of Rica Grm.-jns atia'-kt-.l our ba: tali.irs, w!:n .Irove To CTiraiv !a. k antl infli.'li SPVeri1 losses. Tn tlie dirortions of Ziolohoff and H.ui'-z VuttV'.i arr ra:nu'. In rlif region of Kripa! mountain ' (Couttnued ou Pago Two.) mm mm LEMBEBE MMICE (Continued from Page One.) and also In the region of Dornavatra, our troops captured several heights. The enemy's counter-attack was re- j pulsed by our fire. Here we cap- I Ui red 300 prisoners. Caucasus front: In the region of Ognott fierce fighting continues. The enemy has been put to flight at some roints. Turkish attacks in the reeion of Tchoruk were repelled by our fire. In the battle around this village we captured cap-tured another gun. Railway Manager Dies. TOPEKA, Ivan., Sept. 3. Charles W. Kouns, general manager of the Atchison, Topeka Santa 'e railroad (eastern lines), died at his home here today. His death came shortly after his return from J Washington, where he had participated in the railroad wage controversy. Mr. Kouns's death resulted from a heart weakness brought on. according (o liis physicians, by bis strenuous work In tne , east as a member of Ihe commitlee of seventeen general managers selected to j represent (the railroads in the negotiations with the train service hrotherhood.s. |