Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
RAID ON WARSAW
COSTS TEUTONS
100000 MEN
In Spite Of Enormous Losses the
Iron Ring Around the Capital
City of Poland is Hold
ing Firm.
RUSSIANS CHECK THE ADVANCE
City is Threatened from Three
Fronts and Defeat on Any Would
Mean Surrender.
GERMAN COLUMN IS NEAR RIGA

LONDON, July 2s.-Though the
Germans now hold a great line from
the gulf OF Riga, sweeping south
westward around Warsaw, thence en-.
circling the city and stretching away
to the Gallcian frontier near Sokal
IL is estimated they have lost 100000
men. perhaps more, in this, the most
ambitious movement Of the war. And
In spite OF that loss the Austrian
front is not yet broken.
On the Nsrew river, north of War
saw. the Russians have made a stub
born show OF resistance, holding
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg for
the time being i'm check. To the
south the combined Austro- German
forces. struggling TO seize the Lublin-
Chelm railway. have been for days
on the Threshold Of success without
being able actually to achieve their
goal.
Fighting on this latter front has been
renewed with great intensity and the
Teutons claim to have improved their
position on the extreme right which Is
resting on the Bug river.
Crisis Is ApprOanhinG.
Immediately west OF Warsaw compare
tive quiet prevails and II is along the
Lublln-Chelm sector or in the Narew
river region that It Is believed a crisis
will be reached
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greatest strategic Importance. London
critics cannot agree. but this IL irrelevant.
as German victory on either one doubt
less would mean the fall OF Warsaw
The Germans I'm the Baltic provinces ad-
vancing along an eighty-rnile 'front.' toward
wilma with a view TO seizing the railway
from Warsaw to Petrograd. are daily be-
coming a more potent factor in the fight
ing. for. linked UP with the forces to the
southwest, they give the Germans a front
of 800 miles with which to effect a vast
turning movement north Of Warsaw.
The troops operating against Riga, from
which city they are only twenty miles
distant. are considered in the nature of
an independent column and II is these
forces which have come under the fire
Of the Russian warships.
italian gains on the Carso plateau and
French gains in the vosges mountains
are about the only developments In the
other theaters.
French official Report.
PARIS, July 2s.--The official communi-
cation given out today by the French
war department reads:
I'm Artois, 10 the north of Souchez, the
Germans. after a stropg bombardment,
delivered last night several different at
tacks against three OF our positions. After
a very spirited combat they were driven
out OF the trenches which they had sue
ceeded I'm occupying. with the exception
of one point. whore they retained twenty
yards OF a saphead in advance OF our
front. The town of Scissors was bonn
barded yesterday evening.
Tn the Argonne. In the vicinity of
Fontaine-Aux-C the enemy under
took TO make an attack. but they were
driven back to their trenches by our ip-
fantry fire
"on the rest OF the front the night
passed quietly.
TN the Dardanelles there IN nothing
to report With the exception OF some
slight progress on the part OF our troops
on our right wing, together with activity
by French aviators who bombarded sue
cessfully the new aviation camp OF the
enemy to the north of Chanak. They
threw bombs on the hangers and a gaso-
line supply supply station caused a con-
siderable outbreak of flames"