To give some details of the improved Russian position. The
Russians in Galicia have added to their success at Tarnopol, which we recorded last week, another south-west of Trembovla. Here they took over seven thousand prisoners, besides three guns and thirty-six machine guns. A Petrograd message despatched. on Tuesday announced that during the fortnight ending September 12th the Russians had taken no fewer than forty thousand prisoners in Galicia, and messages published on Thursday brought the number up to sixty thousand. At the same time, Marshal von Mackensen's advance north-west of Rovno has been checked. There is no doubt that the main German effort is being made, how- ever, in the north, between Dvinsk and Vilna. Here the Germans are heavily reinforcing their line. They have cut the railway between Dvinsk and Vilna, and they have also captured Skidel. Yet the Russians even so are able to deliver strong counter-blows. The Germans admit that there is a Russian offensive on the Villa, which lies between them and Vilna. In short, the progress of the Germans is more apparent than real, and, as Lord Kitchener says, they have probably shot their bolt.
