The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-11

guard action will be entirely sacri-
feed, if necessary, in order to retard
the advance for sufficient length Of
time for the main army to make good
its retreat.
Even when the advancing Germans
force the bridgeheads their work is
not done, and the Russian rear guard
can still make effective resistance by
reason of the marshes and deep for
ests with which the eastern bank Of
the Narew is fringed. The only fues-
ton is, and this applies to all the
forces in the sharper part of the
Warsaw salient: knowing that ulti-
mate retirement was inevitable, have
the Russians commenced the retro
grade movement in time?
Where Won Hindenberg Attacked.
In the next sector, that immediate
ly west of and encircling Warsaw,
Won Hindenberg drove forward by
frontal attacks against fortified posi-
tions along the outer line of defen-
sive works of the city. To the north,
in the rtgion of Novo Georgievsk, al
though continuous fighting of the
most severe character did not shake
the Russian resistance. But the fall
of LubIin and Chaten and the conse-
quent abandonment of considerable
section of the railroad decided the
operations in the Warsaw sector
proper, and on Wednesday Petrograd
announced a retirement from the
Blonie-Nadarzyn position to the de-
fenses of Warsaw itself. This move
brought the end into plain view. 1t
was but question here, as on the
Narew, ot the Russians delaying by
rear-guarG fighting, while the main
army retreated behind the Vistula.
Warsaw Situation Confused.
On Thursday Berlin announced
that the Russians had retired across
the Vistula bridges at Praga and
Warsaw was occupied by German
troops. Here, as along the Narew
front, the situation is for the time
being somewhat confused. Reports
referring to the Russian evacuation
speak of the Russians still holding
the front along the Narew and the
Bug and pivoting on Novo Geor-
gievsk. The situation that would be
created by such a manoeuvre would
seem too fraught with danger to be
possible.
Another salient would thus be Gre
ated with Novos Georgievsk as its
apex and only few miles wide at
the base. If this fortress is still held,
the force garrisoning it must be
small one, intended only for tenn
porary occupancy in order to cause
delay.
Heavy Fighting to Continue.
Although Warsaw has falleu it
can not be expected that the fighting
will suddenly cease. On the con-
trary, for some days, until the Rus
sian retreat in safety is assured and
until it can adjust itself to a new
position, the fighting may be just as
intense as during the last three
weeks. Russia has taken terrible
toll from the Germans in return for
the city she has lost, and will doubt
less supplement her pound of flesh
before her retirement is complete.
Running southeast from the sector
around Warsaw is the sector of the
Vistula extending along the railroad
from Ivangorod to Cholm. 1t was
the successes along a section Of this
line that, more than Won linden
berg's activity near Warsaw itself,
caused the evacuation.
Railroads Capture Spelled Success.
On Sunday the Austrian troops,
who are sandwiched in between Gems.
Woyrsch ON the west and Won Mack
ensen on the east, seized Lublm and
forced the Russians to abandon prac-
ticalIy all of the railroad between
Nova Alexandria and that place. The
absolute need of this railroad to the
Russian position at Warsaw has been
explained in former reviews. 1t will
therefore be understood that this sue
cess sounded the death knell to Rus
sia's continued retention of the line
she then held.
Mackensen Comes to Life.
Following close on the capture of
Lublin, Won Mackensen, having the
week previous. in the battle of Kras-
nostow, forced the passage of the
Volika and seized the heights be-
tween that river and Cholm, advanc-
ed against the latter city, drove the
Russians out, and occupied it. Thus
practically the entire railroad from
Cholm to Nova Alexandria was in
German control.
Northwest of Ivangorod the Rus
slams have occupied line consider
ably in advance Of the Cistula. They
are being gradually forced back, how
ever, and partly because of the pres
sure on their front and partly
through the danger of being flanked
by reason of the German occupation
of Warsaw will soon have to fall
back behind, if not beyond, the Wis
tula screen.
Should the Russians elect to give
battle behind the Vistula on this
front the Germans are apt to find the
forcing of the river a serious opera
ton, for, as explained in other re-
views, the steep ganks, the depth,
width, and the swift current combin
to make the Vistula the strongest de-
fensive barrier in eastern Europe.
Linsingen Holds Down the Right.
On the rest of the front, from So
kol, along the upper Bug, the Zlota
Lipa and the Dniester to Bessarabia,
there has feen but little change. Won
Linsingen, who is in command of this
section of the Teuton line, is playing
a role similar to that of Won Buelow
in the north. His function is not to
but to hold, so that the Ger
man right flank and lines of COM
may be safe. This he has
succeeded in doing while his fellow
leaders north and west have driven
their attacks home.
Narsaw's Significance.
AS to the significance of the fall Of
Warsaw in it's relation to fossible
peace, no one can say. 1t depends
largely how our sympathies lie as to
what conclusions we draw. At the
same time an event of two years or
more ago may be appropriately re-
called in this connection.
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