RUSSIAN FRONT.

Evening Star, Issue 15929, 8 October 1915, Page 3

RUSSIAN FRONT.

DVINSK HOLDS OUT. ENEMY WEAKER ELSEWHERE PETROGRAD, October 7. Ilio feeling is much more optimistic in Staff quarters. The belief is growing that the bottom has fallen out of Marshal Yon Ilirdenburg’s third grandiose scheme, to smash the Russian armies. The natural obstacles in the way of tho German advance have l>ecu ennrim t&ly increased by exceptionally heavy rains flooding the rivers. Only on tho Dviusk front arc the Ormans showing their old energy and tenacity. Here General Yon Below has mounted Sin guns; but Dviusk. though protected only by earthworks, is holding out. The Russians north and south of Dvinsk continue to capture village after village, with serious Gorman losses. A typical fight occurred at Daninshcvn. on tho Vilia, where the Germans were driven out n! the town, but repeatedly counter-attacked, and finally brought up their reserves within 200 yards of the Russian centra. Two Russian companies caught them on the flanks, and the attackers were annihilated. The German troops are utterly exhausted after their five months’ fighting, while the Russians are showing recovery with thy. help of their endless human and natunti lesources. The squares and open places Potrograd arc filled with new soldiers.