THREATENED WITH DISASTER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 7

THREATENED WITH DISASTER.

/ GERMAN FORCES AROUND WARSAW. i A RUSSIAN MESSAGE TO THE UNITED STATES, ! (Received July 28, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. '4# A Petrograd message states that Generals von Hindenburg i ahd von Mackensen are both threatened with complete defeat I pi their contemplated coup at Warsaw. I '; The German force is temporarily abandoning its forward ' Jbovemcnt, and has been forced to protect its flank; which is curling back to the tongue of the* column to lend an effective • resistance to the Russian blows, which have weakened the line. Experts say that th'e situation and conditions are strikingly similar to those obtaining before Paris when General von kluck's army was saved from annihilation by a rapid doubling back. ~~ ~"