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Show 1 0FFENSIVE OF THE RUSSIANS PROGRESSING Violent Pressure Is Applied in Attack North of Halicz, Where Attempt Is Being Made to Cut Railway. VON BOTHMER MAY HAVE TO RETREAT Russian Cavalry Distinguishes Distin-guishes Itself by Brilliant Charge; Berlin Reports I Recovery of Ground. PETKOGRAD, Sept. IS, via London, 4:3j p. m. News of a scries of new battles in the general neighborhood of Halicz, in Galicia, ends an almost unprecedented un-precedented period of quiet extending on all the Russian fronts except that In Asia Minor, where the Turks, without with-out marked success, are steadily repeating repeat-ing their efforts to launch an offensive against the left flank of the Russian Caucasian array. 1 Thus after weeks of suspended activity, activ-ity, General Brnssiloff has energetically energetical-ly resumed his campaign against Lem-berg. Lem-berg. Halicz, which obstructs the way to that city from the southeast, is again being subjected to the most violent pressure by the Russians, who are throwing the greatest weight of their attack north of Halicz, on the Kara-vavka Kara-vavka river, where they are attempting to cut the railway from Halicz along the Narayuvka to Podvyschke. It is believed by Russian officials here that the left flank of the army of the German general Count von Bothmer will soon be obliged to give way before the fierceness of the Russian Rus-sian onslaught, leaving them a way to Halicz open from the north. It is noteworthy that in the first of the present series of battles, in which the number of German prisoners taken argues defeat for the entire German division, di-vision, all three arms of the Russian forces contributed almost equally to the result. The Russian cavalry particularly particular-ly distinguished itself by executing a A brilliant charge reminiscent of old-time jT warfare. |