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Show v TEUTOHS IEISG . (JITS German Military Writers Writ-ers Do Not Believe Von Hindenburg Will Push His Russian Campaign Cam-paign Further This Fall, Owing , to Lateness Late-ness of the Season. VIENNA CLAIMS ROMAN DEFEAT French Resume Offensive Offen-sive in the Verdun Re-! Re-! gion, Attacking on a Front of Two Miles; Battle Said to Be in Progress; More Artillery Artil-lery Duels. ' Russia's probable new line in Livonia, following the retreat from Kiga under Von Hindenburg 'a pressure, is now beginning be-ginning to define itself. The Petrograd movement appears to have been definitely defi-nitely halted in some sectors at least, where the Russians are digging in to make a stand.' Berlin reveals the state of affairs more clearly than Petrograd 's statement. state-ment. Judging from the German statements, state-ments, the Russian line now extends from west of Kokenhusen, on the Dvina, about twelve miles east of Friedrich-stadt, Friedrich-stadt, and approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Riga, northwest through the town of Bending, twelve miles west of Venden and on to the Gulf of Riga. Thus the front northwest of Dvinsk instead of curving sharply west just beyond Jacobstadt, as it did ' to take in the Riga district, now leaves tho Dvina there and continues on in almost a straight line to the coast. Halt for Winter. Both German and Russian opinion seems to think tho new German iriva-sion iriva-sion will not proceed much farther this fall. The approach of the wet and cold seasons militates against a real push toward Petrograd at present, it is held, even if Von Hindenburg had the men to spare for the difficult task. On tho Austro-Italiau front General ( Cadorna seems to be meeting with resistance re-sistance even more desperate than before be-fore in his drive toward Trieste. Au Austrian report, the date of which is ' uncertain, claims a decided reverse for the Italians in the larso region. The driving of the Italians from the vicinity vicin-ity of Monte San Gabriele northeast of f-' Gorizia, is also claimed. Italians Contident. There has been no hint of such setbacks set-backs in recent Italian reports and the Austrian statement possibly refers to ground admittedly lost temporarily by the Italians some days jrTo. The tone of the latest Italian statements has been confident, especially as regards re-gards the fighting in the Sa7i Gabriele region, where an Italian victory virtu-allv virtu-allv w:is predicted despite tremendous obstacles. On the Franco-Belgian front, Verdun seems again to be developing into the chief center of interest. Berlin, at least, indicates a serious effort by the i'reneh to renew their successes in this battle-scarred arena. French Offensive. The French launched an attack on a wide front Friday night, centering their I effort east of the Meuse between Sa-o Sa-o miigneux and the Beaumont-Vacherau- ville road, says the German w-ar offiW which claims a repulse inflicted upon General Petain. Saturday morning, however, after drumfire, the attack was renewed, the front of the drive nppar- (Continuea on l-ago 'l"wo.) DffiOFTEii i BIG LIMITS (Continued from Pago Ons.) mtly being extended as far o:it as Ke.on vnnx, the point on which the Kroncli right Hunk hinged in the recent successful offensive. In jiono of the other war theaters have there been action of wide in'pr-tauce. in'pr-tauce. VIENNA REPORT CLAIMS VICTORY OVER ITALIANS VTRNNA. Sept. 8, via rxndon. Tn the Hermada .sector on tho front northwest of Triest the A ust Hans have recaptured ground Rained by the Italians, according to an undated official statement rrom the Austrian war office received here today. The statement says thft Italians can no longer boast of having gained a yard of j ground. l.'p to the present time, according to ! the announcement, the A ust rians have i taken more than 6000 prisoners in the , Hermada region. According to the announcement, the Austrlans pressed back the Kalians from Monte Ban Gabrlele, northeast- of Gorizla. iThe Italians are said to have fled. The announcement follows: Our troops, In hand-to-hand fighting, fight-ing, yesterday pressed back the Italians Ital-ians from' Monte San Gabrlele. At noon the enemy fled west across the Dol. He was caught by our annihilating annihi-lating tire. He concentrated fresh reserves re-serves and attacked once more at 8 p. in., suffering heavy losses. Tho enemy 'a heavy artillery shelled the mountain day and night without interruption. in-terruption. During the early hours this morning the Are increased. St. Catherlna also was heavily shelled. Attacks against Fanovltas and Selo were easily repulsed. In the Hermada sector our troops, by a bold stroke, regained the territory terri-tory previously taken by the Italians in the eleventh battle of the Isonzo. The enemy can no longer boast of having gained a yard of ground. In vain the enemy, exasperated, attempted at-tempted by mad thrusts to reconquer what he had lost. The attacks were crushed by artillery and hand grenades. gren-ades. At this point, up to the present, pres-ent, 160 officers and 6300 men have been taken prisoner. Triest has again been bombed by aviators. |