Show i A JR IAN IANS S I SMASHED HO IN 1 A ATTEMPT T TI TO TOI I I T P R T Make Heavy Counter Attack to Regain Regain Regain Re Re- gain Ground Lost i in New Drive on Lemberg I By RI deal rr- PETRO PETROGRAD GRAD Via London Oct 2 I The The Austrians made heavy counterattacks counter counterattacks counterattacks attacks yesterday in attempt to regain regain regain re- re gain the ground lost in the new Russian Rus Rus- 81 sian n drive on Lemberg The war office of- of I flee fice announced today that the attacks attacks were repulsed and that 1600 prisoners prison ers era were taken in addition to captured yesterday This fighting occurred on the front southeast of Lemberg where heavy engagements are still in progress The announcement follows On the western front in the region I of the river and on the heights on the right bank of ot the rivet t Zlota Lipa stubborn fighting Is continuing The enemy initiated counter attacks which were repelled He left in our hands 1600 of ot the rank and file With the Austrian prisoners prison ers era were also Turks and GermansOn Germans I On the river in the region region region re re- gion of ot our patrols removed removed re reo re- re moved two field sentries and defeated the enemy advance guards taking faking also a number of prisoners The total number of prison prisoners rs taken by this section of General army during the battle from S Septem September tem ber 19 to 28 28 inclusive In the i arpa on the front extending to the Rumanian frontier is thirteen officers officers cers and 2696 of ot the rank and file The war booty captured during the same period amounts to four cannon cannon cannon can can- non thirteen machine guns two mine throwers one trench mortar seventy seventy- five shells and hand grenades cases of machine gun belts and several several sev sev- eral thousand rifles VIENNA Via London Oct 2 Gains for the Russians in their drive toward Lemberg are admitted by the war office today The statement follows Front of Archduke Charles Francis Francis Francis Fran Fran- cis Fighting in the is slackening Southwest and south of the enemy attacked with strong forces the Turkish troops operating operating operating op op- between the Zlota Lipa and the railway station The Russians gained some meters of ground Front of Prince Leopold Opposite General Boehm army the enemy attacked our positions north of ol the road from Brody to but was repulsed At one spot three and in another seven attacks were shattered South of the road the enemy penetrated the sector of one oner r regiment A counter attack begun early today is progressing favorably and has regained the part greater greater part of the lost trenches Italian theatre The Italian artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery is again directing a very heavy fire tire against our positions on the Carso plateau which has has' extended to our lines in the valley In Inthe Inthe Inthe the southeastern theatre there is nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing to report PETROGRAD Via London Oct 2 2 The The struggle along the entire southwestern southwestern south south- w western stern front continues with undiminIshed undiminished undiminished intensity but without salient episodes or changes in the general situation The Germans are piling up reserves In the neighborhood of ot Vladimir Vlad Vlad- imir wh whore where re they are trying desperately to wrest the initiative from General armies But according to the accounts of observers ers despite the considerable concentration concentration concen concen- of forces the Germans are areno areno areno no longer able to spare enough men mento mento mento to deliver the old time smashing blows which by sheer numbers of shells and men drove at all costs through the opposing lines There has also been renewed activIty activity activity ity near Halicz which still appears to rest securely in German Austro-German hands The town is however under the fire Ire of Russian guns Here as farther north the Germans are struggling struggling gling to launch a successful offensive offensive offensive of of- which thus far has always been defeated in its preliminary stages by a Russian counter attack A striking improvement has recently recent recent- ly been noticeable in Russian aviation avia avia- tion In addition to raids officially reported Russian aviators have executed executed executed ex ex- a number of attacks behind the German lines on the southwest southwest- southwestern ern frontier and have bombed stations and stores According to the Russian officers the percentage of losses in these operations has been extremely small One of ot the most successful exploits exploits ex ex- of the aviation squadron to be reported recently was the flight of ot twelve aeroplanes over southwest of where more than 1600 pounds o of bombs were dropped The aviators reported that they had engaged a large German air fleet which they compelled to retire with serious losses |