Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-25 | Page 5 | Russians Resume Offensive in East

3mm RESUME " off nasi Petrograd Reports Capture 9 of 1500 Teutons on Sereth River in Galicia. TV-i-crai nil l2.:Kraetiac.l Ne Servt-e.) LONDON'. Pert. 21. A fresh series of hactls ha? brv.k-rt txrr n.orsr the Rusfian-"utrn Rusfian-"utrn fronr. fmm the lripet river to the Rumanian border. Bo;h side.s claim sufX-e-SFes, Petrocrad rportLnc the capture cap-ture ot 1500 Austro-German prisoners on the Sereth river in GRliria. Kere. north ot iwroy and BotitheaM of lumbers, the Hussions rem mod tne offcn-tjvo, offcn-tjvo, apparently In pnr.-uanro of n direct drive RscainFt the ("JaM'-tan stronghold. Germany reports thai the attacks wpre beaten off. after temporary penetration of German trenches near Manajov, the Russians losing 700, taKen prisoners. In the Carpathians the Germans recovered recov-ered ground on the eastern slopes of Comhrosiava. A battle !s heing fought tonight northeast of Kirlihala, In the southern Carpathians. Today's Russian war office statement follows: "From the Pripet to the Rumanian frontier fron-tier heavy fighting is proceeding at va-j va-j rious placeB. Yesterday the Austro- Germans made a strong resistance a.uaint the advance of our troops on the upper Sereth in the region between Mana.iova and Kharbuzov. AH their counter-attacks were repulsed and we captured 1600 prig-; prig-; miners." BERLIN, Sept. 24, wireleFs to Rayville. The German official front statement says: Strong Russian masses again attacked at-tacked five times between the freth and Stripa rivers, north of Zboroff. The enemy penetrated near Manaov, but was ejected by a counter attack, leaving more than . 700 prisoners. Further south all attacks broke down In front of our tine with heavy losses. In the Carpathians we reconquered terrain which we had lost in former combats on the eastern slope of Cim-broslava, Cim-broslava, and we gained ground between be-tween Lcdova and Raba-L-udova, Northeast of Kirllbaba tenacious . fighting Is in progress. ' . Siebendurgen (Translrrania') front: J(':- Russian attacks on Vulcan pass and 'r to the westward were repulsed. VIENNA, via Tyondon, Sept. ?4. 10:20 p. m. The Austrian war office today made public the following official communication: com-munication: J ' Russian front: In the region of the Vulcan pass we repulsed a Rumanian Ruman-ian attack. The enemy stubbornly continued at-i at-i tacks ea6t and north of Kiriibaba i (Carpathians). East of the town i his masses, after a slight success, ' " were stopped and further attacks repulsed. re-pulsed. Southwest of Luczine, Saturday, Sat-urday, Russian at tucks failed. Near Iviidova we overca me adva n rages the ; enemv had gy-ined In recent fighting, r Between Zboroff a nd the upper 11 Serpth (in Gaiiria ( Russians again ' attacked. They succeeded in breach- ing our line nortlreast of Perpelniki. ' A counter attack regained the posi- t V lions for us.