WITHDRAWAL FROM VILNA COMPLETE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5

WITHDRAWAL FROM VILNA COMPLETE

GERMAN LOSSES TOTAL 250,000 ENEMY'S PRESSURE-STILL CONTINUES ' Br Telegraph—Press "Association—Copyright London, September 23. Reuter's agent.at New York reports"Petrograd has announced that the withdrawal of tho Russians; from the Vilna position is completed. The Germans lost 250,000 men; . •'■ *. ; ' ...("Times" and Sydney -"Sim"- Services.) • ' '' ■ ' London, September 23. , General. Nandand, a French military correspondent with the Russians telegraphs that the evacuation of Vilna was carried out without tho general strategic situation undergoing any serious modification. The German pressure along tho whole of this front continues. The enemy lias a vast number of effectives, and possesses immense resources in material, besides great energy. GERMAN OFFICIAL. COMMUNIQUE. . ' Amsterdam, September 23. A German official communique states:—"General, von Hindenourg's fighting south-west of. Lonnewarden has hot concluded.. / , "We penetrated the Russian advanced positicins'west of Dvinsk, canturine 2000 men.; . . _ • ■•, ' "We have broken the Russian resistance from northward of Oshmiana to eastward of Siibotniki. .Our pursuing troops captured 1000 Russians."Y' .. ■ v ■■ •■-"*. ENEMY; MAKING DESPERATE EFFORTS AT DVINSK, XRec. September 24, 6.45 p.in.) r -mi '. ... ' Paris, September 23. ' the modification, of the Russian front eastward of Vilna was so successfully carricd oUt that the,-enemy is redoubling his effort' against/ Dvinsk, attacking from three; sides ivith heavy artillery, incessant bombs from aeroplanes, and asphyxiating gases. Tho persistence of the offensive shows a determination to precipitate events oil the Dvina; ; The Russians in the Friedrichstadt district, are carrying out an energetic offensive, and, have made a great gap in the German lines, compelling von Bitlow's retreat. The Russians captured fifteen hundred and many machine-<*iuis General tvanoff has scored fiirthor successes in Volhvnia, Galicia "