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Show German Drive on West Front Reported lear French Admit Enemy Used Asphyxiating Asphyxi-ating Gas. Russ Still Full of Fight ' London, Sept. 10, Tho Germans havo repeated In tho Vosgcs mountains moun-tains tho attempts which thoy mado to break through tho French lines In tho Argonno forest, which seem-lngty seem-lngty indicates that tho long expected expect-ed offcnsUo In tho west will not vory much longer bo delayed. In theso at-, tncks tho Germans claim that they wero enabled to occupy somo French trenches. Tho French report Issued later, admits this, but says that tho Germans progress was accomplished by tho use of asphyxiating gases and that In counterattacks tho French regained re-gained tho greater part of their lost ground at Hartmans Wcllorkopf nnd later repulsed another violont nttack against that position. Hnrtnmns Wcllorkopf which was . taken by tho French during their spring nnd summer opcrntlons, probably prob-ably hns been tho sccno of ns much linid lighting na nny plnco on tho Iwholo front. It has changed hands a dozen times. Yesterday tho Ger-, Ger-, mnns by assault again got a footing on tho summit, but nccordlng t0 tho French roport, wero driven down Again during tho night. Outsldo of theso events, tho armies In tho west havo been engaged In almost continuous contin-uous nrtlllory duels, bomb throwing and air raids. Little Change In the East In tho oast thcro Is littlo change In tho situation. Tho two Russian successes suc-cesses on tho Seroth rivor, Gallcla, while they mado a big capturo of raon and guns, has not intorforod with tho Austro Gorman advanro. Further north, tho Austrlans havo j tnkon Dubno, tho second of tho tri-nnglo tri-nnglo of fortresses to fall Into tholr I hands, and with tho help of tho Oor-I Oor-I mans nro advancing to Rovno, tho I third of theso fortified centers. Mean-, Mean-, wlillo tho Germans from tho south of tho I'rlpot marshes to tho region southwoH of Vllna aro fighting hard J and with Bomo success for tho strategic stra-tegic railway system of tho Drest Vllna area. Most of this railway system is already al-ready In tho possession of tho invaders, invad-ers, but thoy aro now aiming particularly partic-ularly nt tho main trunk lino which, starting at Riga, runs through Dvlusk, Vllna, LIdn and tho Hast Prlpot marshes mar-shes to Rovno nnd onward to Lorn-berg, Lorn-berg, Gallcla. Military critics express ex-press tho opinion that onco this lino is in tho hands of tho Austro German fot"cs thoy will go into winter quarters, quar-ters, for tho moro important military purpose of bringing any largo part of tho Russian forces to n decisive bat-tlo bat-tlo under disadvantageous conditions now seems out of the question ns tho autumn rains already liavo set in. Tho three mnin Russian armies under un-der Generals Ruzsky, Evoret and Ivn-noff, Ivn-noff, although rcducod and outnumbered, outnum-bered, EtlU aro full of fight, as It Is shown by their offonslvo on tho Scroti! Scr-oti! river, and tho Austro Germans must look to their own defense boforo bo-foro reinforcements reach their opponents. op-ponents. Serbia and Bulgaria Deadlock Thoro is still n dearth of nows from tho Dardanelles. On tho Austro Italian frontier, tho Italians contlnuo tliclr attneks in tho mountain feglonu whoro tholr progress Is slow. It Is disclosed by tho Sofia correspondent corre-spondent of tho Associated Press that Serbia has offered to codo Macedonia ns far ns tho Vardar rivor, to Bulgn-rla, Bulgn-rla, hut that tho latter wants tho wholo of Macedonia. This Is whoro tho negotiations, It was feared would reach a deadlock, for abovo nil things Serbia with Grccco, whllo Bulgaria nlwayB demanded tho cession of Mon-nstlr Mon-nstlr which, being near tho southwestern southwes-tern border, would mako n common border impossiblo. |