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Show 1 ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN BY THE I FIRE Of RUSSIANS NEAR VILNA Ifft Airship Crew Equipped to Make Photographs of the Country In Witliin the Czar's Lines Another Town Captured by HI Germans French Repulse Attacks Sub- rt marines Return to Base. mi 1 Bf Berlin, Aug. 21 , via London, 4:15 p. m. The Germans Hf have captured the Russian town of Bielsk, 25 miles south of til Bialystok, and have driven the Russians over the Biala river, m according to an official announcement given out today by the 51 German army headquarters' staff. 2 i 5 London, Aug. 21, 2:02 p. m. Russian gunners have I brought down a Zeppelin that was approaching Vilna, accord- J ing to a dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company from Pet- I rograd today. The dispatch continues: "The airship was ft I hit four times. It contained the pilot and engineer together U with eight soldiers, a machine gun, 'bombs, incendiary darts I ' and photographic apparatus." '& ': ' . ! Naples, Aug. 21, via Paris, 5:25 a. m. A dispatch to 'i'l the Mattino from Saloniki says that Bulgaria has concen- trated 150,000 troops on the Turkish frontier. V . i y- Parle Ancr 71 Trm Italian ambassador at Constanti- 2 i nople, says a Rome dispatch to the Matin, has been instructed i; to hand to the porte a note asking for a formal categoric state- ment as to the departure of Italians from the Turkish posses- J sions. The notes are couched in terms admitting no evasion. Without being an ultimatum,, it calls upon the Turkish gov-1 gov-1 1 ernment to declare yes or no whether Italians will be permitted J ! I to leave, and when. I w London, Aug. 2112:27 p. m. The ; - Russian field armies are fighting . j desperately but vainly to check the I I onrush of the Germans and Austrlans. I I Novogeorglevsk, the last Polish fort 1 l ress to hold out. has fallen. Osso-" Osso-" ; wetz, to the north of Poland, has re 4? ! sisted the invaders thus far only be- cause of the marshy nature of the sur-x sur-x rounding country -which prevents the Germans from employing their heavy 2 guns effectively. I South of Drest-LItovsk, Field Mar- I shal von Mackensen's forces have f. penetrated far beyond the Bug. Oth- j : er German armies cast of that river :i render a serious Russian defense it 7 inability to hold the Lens-Arras cross ,jj J line virtually Impossible. 1 The mysterious naval battle in the Gulf of Riga waa' atill-in-progress'at g1 the time of the latest report from Pet- i1 rograd which, however, gave no de- j tails as to the magnitude of the ac- 14 tlon. r Along the other fronts no Import- h ;f ant changes are recorded with the ? exception of tho French admission of Inability to hold the Lens-Arnas' cross I ij Toads recently captured. I i The diplomatic problem In the Near I i East has been brought appreciably !r nearer a solution by the formation of ft a Greek ministry under the premier- I ship of M. Venizclos and the indlca- I tlons that the uncompromising attl- tude of tho military faction in Serbia against Bulgaria's claims aro being broken down. ; After 48 hours of unusual activity, resulting In a heavy toll of merchant- ' men traversing tho naval war zone, German submarines apparently have 1 been withdrawn to their bases. Belief Is expressed that the White Star lln- er Bovlc Is safely In port. It Is now definitely established that only two Americans who were passengers on the Arabic are missing. , Only Artillery Fighting. I Paris, Aug. 21.-2:30 p. m. The V French war office this afternoon gave out a statement on the progress of hostilities which reads: "Last night saw continued artillery fighting In the Artols' district; between be-tween the Oiso and the Alsno; In the Champagne district and In the Vos-Ut Vos-Ut ges. H 'In tho Argonne fighting with mines continued at Courles Chausees and '. at SL Hubert where we have occupied Br and consolidated tho crater made .by K a mine explosion. B "Two weak infantry atacks, made K on the part of tho enemy, one at the B Fraute-Aux-Hartes and tho other in B the forest of Paroy in Lorraine, were B. completely repulsed by us." B Aeroplanes in Battle. B Paris, Aug. 21, 4:50 p. m. Italian B aeroplanes defeated an Austrian air B squadron off tho Adriatic coast, ac- I cording to a dispatch to the Figaro I from Turin. Three of the Austrian I machines were brougnt down and ' their crews were either killed or I mado prisoners, I ' oo |