EASTERN THEATRE

Southland Times, Issue 17482, 24 July 1915, Page 6

EASTERN THEATRE

GERMAN ABaHES SUCCESSES IN' POLAND PSZS3UBE OUT WARSAW IBOH THREE SIDES IVANGOROD BESIEGED (3y Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Coryrigh i) AMSTERDAM, July 22. A Berlin communique states : Uur advancing troops north-east of Shavli (Baltic Province) captured 4150 prisoners and five machine guns. Our irruption on tiie Lower Dubissa regulted in the attackers entering the district of Grynkiskzi and Gudsinny. Sf".'eral enemy positions were stormed, and the Russians are recreating on the .-n----tire front from Zaki P.akiewo to tue N;emen. We enlarged the breach _in the P.ussian lines south of the MariamnolKovno road, and gained furciier ground eastwards, capturing four officers. 1210 men. and four machine guns. The enemy on the Narew have discontinued their useless counter-attacks. The P.ussians south of the Vistula have been pushed back into I? front) their enlarged bridge'sead positions on Warsaw. Von Woyrsch's army, by a bold attack, frustrated the enemy’s latest attack to arrest their retreat before Ivangorod. Our Silesian troops, with the help of the Austrians, at noon stormed n r bridgehead positions near Lagow and Lugowawola. The enemy’s entire from has been thrown into the fortress, -which is now closely invested. Yesterday the Austrians north-west of Ivangorod captured 2000 prisoners and 11 machine grins. Von Mackensen’s battle belwo-'-n the Vistula and the Dug is proceeding. DESPERATE COSPUCT RAGING PIGSTING ON THE BUG PETP.OGRAD, July 22. Received July 22. 5.30 p.m. Official : A desperate engagement is being fought on the river Jessica, southwest of Kovno (on the Niemen) and Rojanz bridge. Our troops on the left bank of the Vistula occupy a front from Elocie to Nadarjine, and our line of defences at Ivangorod. The battle between the Vistula and the Dug is again very desperate, villages changing lianas again and again. We cleared the right bank of the Bug in the Sokal region, taking 1300 prisoners in one village. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT EAST OP THE VISTULA RUSSIA’S TENACIOUS RESISTANCE VIENNA, July 22. Official : We are approaching the Ivangorod forts from the west and the Germans from the south. The Russians set fire to numerous places west of the Vistula. The battle east of the Vistula continues with undlminished stubbornness, the enemy offering a Tenacious resistance. A LATER MESSAGE ASSAULT ON IVANGOROD VIENNA, July 22. A later official message rays that the Gormans on Wednesday broke the main Russian position west and south of Ivangorod on the line Kozienice-Janowiec. The enemy is retreating over the bridge before Novo Alexandria under German Artillery fire. LONDON PUBLIC ABSORBED, IN STRUGGLE FOR WARSAW. SOME ASPECTS OP THE GREAT EIGHT. THE ENEMV’S DIPPICULTIES. IJiXDUN, July 22. Received Juiy 22, 11.2t) p.m. The public are absorbed in the struggle for Warsaw. The communiques show that the Russians are holding all the vital points on the front and the essential railways are still intact. Though the communiques mention fighting at Rejowice, a viiage half a mile from the .railway, critics point

I out that the Germans have not yet I reached the point west of the Vistula j r/hicli they reached before they were \ driven h:ick -u the end or Iho < I Germans claim Vast they are investing i p.angorod. but an Austrian official inesj sage admit? that their forces are still j westward of mo Vistula. Von Mackenson’s advance has been ar- ! rested twenty miles south-west and thirteen mil. s south-east of Lublin, while '.‘on Mackensen’s centre is butting towards the railway eight miles west of t Unless success is speedily won j V..n .Mackensen is bound to be troubled | a shortage of supplies. A single j l- rnran Army Corps consumes 250 tons j apart from ammunition. Four- | u army corps require seven hundred color lorries, assuming that a double Journey of 120 miles can bo performed -‘ally. Von Mackenscn formed large i magazine? during a pause in the lighting j c.t Krasimstaw early in .July, but has j Tie Morning host’s Pctrograd corre- |.■ c.mden! -ays that if the previous oc!’mm ?! furnished a precedent for the -top; ; go the enemy on ine Chodei•s> • iVi i ire. it is likely to continue. Sls.ilnrly :i t Russian.- contrive to keep •g.cii.y at a (iinance from the Xarew ] i’r.,.nu Sviil there is no indication of the ! 11 i ions ..f ii;c Grand lull; ■ Nicholas, i evry thing points to the plan of ; holding up the enemy on one front and j --ma siting Mm on the other. ! PSVERISH AHZISTT IN GERMANY. j BREAD OE A WHITER CAMPAIGN. i BASHD OIT PSX’SATi!KCr t RUSSIANS. BONBON, July 23. Received .July ibl, 12.50 a.in. Berlin telegrams show that the battle for Warsaw is followed witii feverish anxiety in Germany, where the fear of another winter campaign has become the nightmare of the commercial classes. The general belief is that the defeat of j thi! Russians would enable Germany to dictate terms of peace soon. I it is announced that the Russians set Wir.dau on lire before evacuating it. Bittie of ih.o town remains, and the harbour was destroyed. A PETHOGEAD REPORT. TEE POSITION SERIOUS. BUT PUBLIC CONFIDENT. PETROGRAD, July 23. Received July 2 1, 12.10 a.m. The situation is serious. One indication of its seriousness is the curtness of tiie bulletin. But tiie public is confident of tiie successful issue of the struggle. SWISS NEWS. REPORTS RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. ENEMY’S HEAVY LOSSES. GENEVA, July 23. The Tribune states that the Russians north of tire Volitxa compelled the Austrians to retreat on a front of eight kilometres, and that the Germans were also defeated north of Krasnostaw, losing thirteen thousand men.