New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Germans Tell of Joy
i'm Warsaw at Capture

Berlin. Aug. THE German troops
were welcomed to unchanged Warsaw
as lberators according to the report
forwarded to Berlin by Kurt Aram, a
special correspondent of the "Lokalan-
zeiger." Aram places emphasis on the
statement that the city was not evacu-
ated without a conflict The forts were
protected by barbed wire, trenches, pit
falls and mines against infantry at
tacks. The city is not mentioned as
having been damaged.
The inhabitants of the Polish capital
the correspondent says, filled the
streets and welcomed the inmarching
troops with every sign of real enthusi-
asm and rejoicing. The streets were
richly behagged. The Polish peasants
who long had been restra- I'd IN the
city began leaving in the early morn
ing for their farms, driving the live.
stock and conveying their household
effects. and they greeted the Germans
with tears.
The Warsaw correspondent OF the
isBerliner Tageblatt" confirms the report
that the German troops met with JOY
Gus reception. The streets, he says
were filled with Poles. Jews, Germans
and Russians, who waved their hats
! joyfully to the German soldiers.
The electric street cars were running
! as usual. the correspondent says, anc
almost all the shops were opened. very
| little damage had been done in the city
proper. The earthworks about the fort'
show the German artillery made many
/ fair hits.
] Il n,,f OF INpnnnFnd
/ the "LokalanZeiger" points out the
occupation of that fortress in itself Is
| less important than the fact that Il
makes possible an important increase
/ of concentric pressure on the Russian
/ troops in South Poland. The offensive
| of the armies Of Archduke Joseph Ferd
/ inand and Field Marshal Won Macken.
sen, he adds, continues northward anc
/ the effect on the yet unchanged ea'
/ GGlician front is likely soon to make
! itself felt. According to dispatches
now reaching Berlin, the Polish capital
! fell as the result of midnight storm
( against the forts on the south OF the
/ city.
A division Of Prussian reservists had
/ the honor of making the first breach
| in the fortress line, and they entered
/ the city at 8 o'clock on the morning OF
August 5.
These troops had been heavily en-
gagged for two days and two nights with
| the forts which, though deprived OF
heavy artillery, were capable of offer
ing highly effective resistance to the
| infantry.
The forts in Warsaw had been de-
stroyed last winter, when Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's drive rom the west
threatened the Russian lines along the
Vistula, and when the evacuation of the
city seemed imminent. They later were
rebuilt as supporting points for in
fantry and were surrounded with in
tricate entanglements of wire, bitches
and extensive fields of buried mines
to explode under the feet Of storming
columns.
The fall of the west front of the
fortress occurred almost simultaneous
" with the capture of the southern
forts by Prussians. Mixed divisions
of Saxon, Bavarian and Wurtemberg-
ian troops carried the western forts, so
that all four German kingdoms were
represented in the victory.
The troops attacking from the west
/ had at times to do severe fighting in
working their way within storming dis
/ lance of the forts. The Russians re-
/ sisted stubbOrnly and retired unde- the
| cover of night