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Show 1 Russians Renew Their Great Drive I I SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR BREAK i THROUGH THE TEUTONIC LINES i One Army Takes Over 19,000 Prisoners and Many Guns Russians Have Captured Carpathian Heights and . Are Now Advancing to the f Hungarian Frontier. iyK Between the Danube and the Black SjHjf sea, in eastern Rumania, where the jnft second campaign in consequence of Rumania's declaration of war has z been opened, the Bulgarian and the 31 Rumanian forces of invasion are en- jf gaged heavily. The Rumanian war office announces the repulse of the IiEv Germans and Bulgarians at Basard- I, jik, in Dobrudja, but gives no infor- 9 raation as to the progress of the fight- kw ing elsewhere. l The Rumanian invasion of Hun- Km ey continues. Official announce- m ment is that the towns of Borszek and ! Sekell in eastern Transylvania have m been occupied by the Rumanians. w Baron von Schonk. chief director of 9 the German propaganda in Greece, has 3 been arrested and placed on a j cruiser of the entente allies'. T Bad weather Is delaying operations :j of the French troops along the m)1 Somme. EN , tA i-. Petrograd, Sept. 4, via London, I h . 2 :55 p. m. The Russians have broken J I across the Thinievoca river, a west- I : ? ern tributary of the Zlota Lipa, and U 1 seized a position of the Austro-Ger- ' man troops, the war office announced It todav. They look 2,722 prisoners and I t six machine guns. The Russian victory was won in the 1 neighborhood of Brzaney, 50 miles 1 southeast of Lemberg. Eighty ofli-cers ofli-cers and 2, Gil men were captured. 11 A gas attack near Baranovichi was repulsed. . : In the vicinity of Yladimir-Volynsjtl 5 in Volhynia, fierce battles are m progress near Sheltuvov and Koryt- niza. Heavy engagements are also L unaer way along the upper Sereth. The Russian forces in the Carpa-f Carpa-f thians, the announcement also says, : have captured a whole series of ' mountain heights and are advancing l to the Hungarian frontier. Between Thursday and Sunday, the troops of the Russian commander, ! General Brusilloff, captured 385 offi-' offi-' cers dna 19,020 men. In this number were eleven German officers and 300 privates. Twelve cannon, 7G macnine guns and seven bomb mortars also were taken. AIR RAID ON BELGIUM. London, Sept. 4. 12:50 a. m The more British air raids over Belgium , have been made successfully, it was announced officials today in the fol--; I lowing statement: rT, Cnlnrrlnv tho shin bUlldlUg A I ' vards at Hoboken, near Antwerp, were successfully bombarded by naval aero-6k aero-6k ' planes. , . I "On Sunday the navy aerodrome at I) Ghistelles (11 miles southwest of Bruges) was bombarded with effect by a large squadron of our machines. All returned safely in both cases." ' Berlin, Sept 4. Via London, - 3 '63 p m An official statement issued : by the German admiralty today concerning con-cerning the Zeppeln raid on the southeastern south-eastern counties of England last nlgbt ! "Dunn? tt" night of September 2. several naval airship detachments bombarded the fortress of London and fortified places of Yarmouth and " Harwich as well as factories and places of strategical importance in the f southeastern counties and on the y Humber. Everywhere good effects i- wore observed." j . Bucharest, Sept. 3. Via London, Sept, 4, 7:45 a. m. The Rumanian ; war office announced today that Ru- M ' manlan troops have occupied Borszek 3 1 and Sekell in Transylvania. The Teu- V : tonic-Bulgarian allies have been re- ? 5 pulsed at Basardjik in Dobrudja, hut - ' . elsov.-here continue their attack along fc ; the whole frontier between Dobrudja & I and Bulgaria. ml ATTACK REPULSED., m gl" Salonikl, Sept. 4, via Paris, noon. i Bulgarian troops have made another 5 ' attack on Uie Macedonian front west g ; of Lake Ostrovo. It was announced I ' : at French army headquarters today I ; that the attack had been repulsed by I i Serbians. I i oo the Lincoln Farm association, under a special act of congress. The ceremonies called for speeches by President Wilson, Secretary Baker, Senator John Sharp Williams and Governor Folk of Missouri. President Wilson arrived in a special spe-cial train, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, Wil-son, Senator Williams and Secretary Baker. The president was welcomed by a cheering throng of more than 25,000 people. As he stepped from his private pri-vate car, several bands began playing-and playing-and the applause was deafening. The president stood in his automobile and bowed again and again. Large crowds were gathered at every wayside station between Louisville Louis-ville and Hodgenville and applauded with enthusiasm as Mr. Wilson's special spe-cial passed through. At Hodgenville station an automobile automo-bile parade was formed and proceeded to a statue of Lincoln in the town square, where the president laid a wreath of flowers. Standing before the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born, now housed in a magnificent memorial memo-rial structure, President Wilson, in-half in-half of the United States, accepted the Lincoln homestead, acquired by popular popu-lar subscription through the Lincoln Farm association. The president made his trip to Hodgenville wholly one of tribute to the memory of Lincoln, Lin-coln, declining all invitations to make speeches in the political campaign. cam-paign. "How eloquent this little house within this shrine is of the vigor of democracy," exclaimed the president as he spoke of Lincoln as exemplifying exemplify-ing the American spirit as showing the heights which men of lowly birth may attain. "We are not worthy to stand here," said he, "unless we ourselves be in deed and in truth real Democrats and servants of mankind, ready to k give our very lives for the rreeaora and justice and spiritual exaltation of the great nation which shelters and nurtures nur-tures us." nn |
