RUSSIAN STAND.

Evening Star, Issue 15910, 16 September 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN STAND.

COUNTER-OFFENSIVE TRIED

WITH SOME SUCCESS SOUTH.

, ,-AwKxaation—Sy Telegraph—Copyright

PETROGRAD, September 15. • A communique states: Wo have taken 40,000 Austro-German prisoners since August 30. ■The German pressure continues in the Piksten and Sauk on (? London) Lakes district. At Rakiszki, -west of the Jacob-stadt-Dvinslf. we repulsed repeated attacks ■ . In the Podbrodzc distinct especially there was intense and determined fighting to the west of Elonim. The’enemy’? cavalry fell back near the. corlfluence of the Turia and Pripet (south of Pinsk). We crossed the Gorya, in the Derajno district, and progressed fighting. • We captured a whole Austrian battalion and stopped tho enemy’s offensive in the Berawno and Dlcvan districts with a vigorous y counter-stroke, and then advanced in tho district westward of Kievan, talcing 13,000 . prisoners. We ejected the enemy with great losses from the villages of Rydomel and Rmstold, west of Wysziiewec, taking upwards of 2,000 prisoners. Out offensive continued at Gohtow and Oitkowcc,"south-west of Wysznewcc. Wc captured 140 officers, 7,300 men. one heavy nod six light guns, and much booty, and nro pursuing the enemy westward. On the beret-h front fierce actions have been fought west of Tarnopol: On September 12 w e took 55 officers and 2,700 men prisoners. THE GERMAN VERSION. BERLIN, September 14. ' A communique states;’ Von Hindenburg i? progressing between Dunawallia, northwest of Vilna, and took 5,200 prisoners, 13 machine guns, and much baggage. He is pursuing the Russians north-east of Grodno. ’We have reached halfway to Lida (south of Vilna), and we bombed tho railway Station at Lida. Prince Leopold and Von Mackensen are continuing the pursuit. ° AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT. / AMSTERDAM, September 15. An Austrian communique states; We repulsed attacks on the Strvpa front (Galicia), The Russians in 'Volhynia, strengthened by' reinforcements, attacked at numerous }x>ints, but were repulsed with great losses near Dubno. Our troops in Lithuania pursued the enemy across tho Grinda Plain, to the south of Slonim. A REASSURANCE. • LONDON, September ,15. ‘The Timcs’s’ Petrograd correspondent states that the seizure of a portion of the railway line near Svienbany by the Germans was the result of a cavalry raid and not a general advance. TSAR AND KING. PETROGRAD, September 14. f he •F 531 ' tekgraphed to King George: In the serious time this country is traversing I am assuming the leadership of the armies. lam convinced that with Gods help and the Allies’ combined efforts final victory will crown this bloodv war.” J ■ The King replied: “I am delighted to -mar that you are assuming tho command the armies in the field. I heartily share io*i conviction that with God’s help you _ wrrd your brave troops, with your Allies will finally secure victory, with an honor-’ atao and lasting peace. My thoughts will he more than ever with you in these anxious times.” ’’ - RUSSIAN COLONEL Hanged as a spy ' ■ IN GERMAN PAY. ’ • LONDON, September 15. The papers give details of the case of Lieutenant-colonel Milsovedoff, an inter f inter on the Staff of' the 10th Army Corps, who was sentenced to be handed for espionage in connection with the operations on the Vistula and Niernen. it was his special duty to watch the isar’s personal safety, but he asked to be attached to the Grand Duke Nicholas’s Staff.

Documents found on a Bavarian officer’s body in the Yser showed that some spy in Russia had communicated information of Russian movements, enabling these to be countered. The Grand Duke, suspecting the spy’s identity, concocted a military older, and care was taken to communicate this only to a small group of suspects. Tho result that was expected happened. The Germans showed a knowledge of the order, and took --military action, whereupon Milsoyedoff, being core nered. by the Grand Duke, confessed and ■betrayed his accomplices. Milsoyedoff said that lie had h e en a decade in Germany’s pay, and revealed Russia's every military and political secret. His treason brought'tmiPious of roubles, of which only an infinitesimal fraction went to his subordinates. On o ne occasion he withheld from Genera! Rennokampf a special order for 24 hours, and thus saved the German army from inevitable disaster.

. [The occasion of Rennenbanipfs late arrival was during ono of the early German frontal advances on Warsaw, when the Germans, almost surrounded, cut their way out with great Ices, their escape being rendered possible by the failure of Rennenkampf to arrive in time from the north—a delay for which he waa cashiered.]