Arizona republican., 1915-08-21
Fon Hinderberg's Army Now Appears Ready to Attack to Secure Warsaw Petrograd Railway-Riga an Objective Point
MORE IMPORTANT
 THAN IS WARSAW
Fall of Slavic War Center Considered Graver Disas- ter Than That of Polish Capital - Brest-Lithovsk Next Objective
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHI

LONDON, Aug. 20-The garrison
 at the fortress of Novogeorgievsl,
 left behind by Grand Duke Nicholas
 when he commenced the evacuation
 of Poland to delay the advance of
 the German invaders after accom-
 plishing the task just a fortnight,
 succumbed to the heavy siege ar
 tillery of the Germans which through
 out the war had made every fort attacked by it untenable. Berlin was
 able to announce the capture of the
 fortress with seven hundred guns and a large quantity of war materials l The spells are not yet estimated ] but are probably large, as the Rus
 sians hoped to hold out much longer.
 Ii is now expected that other Rus sian foTtresses such as Brest- -Litovsk, 1 GrodnO and Ossowetz will either be captured or given up. Elsewhere there are no developments.
 After the fall of Kovno, von Hir-
 denburgs army commenced again it's offensive along the whole front from the Gulf of Riga to Kovno with the object of taking Riga and the whole Warsaw PetrOgrad railway from Vil- na northward. He is meeting a stub Eorn resistance and may be denied even the possession of Riga unless the German fleet succeeds in enter ing the Gulf of Riga. South of KoVnc as far as Grodno the Russian armies fell back towards the Niemen river, and according to the German account, they are offering fresh re-
 sistance in the hope of preventing or
 delaying the envelopment of the nor
 them flank on the Brest-Litovsk 5e, crIx Ha that this line is being forced by direct attack Six Teuton armies are strengthened by the corps which have been investing Novogeorgievsz and are converging on the Russian cen ter which is behind the Bug, along the railway from Brest- -Litovsk to Bialystok, and no doubt will soon commence the bombardment of Brest -Litovsk.
 That there is no mention in the foregoing from London Of the sinking of the Arabic
 seemingly would indicate the
 British censor is not permit ting any further news of that disaster to pass.
 1 Other armies cleared the whole left bank of the Bug before Brest-Litovsk while Field Marshal von Mackensen, i having crossed the Bug. was advan- cing on the fortress from the south
 This means the obstacle of the marshes has been circumvented and
 that Brest -Litovsk, the chief mili- tary department and concentration center of Russia, is virtually envel- oped.
 Although military observers are of  probably be able to withdraw his army in safety, the loss of these lines is considered a graver military misfortune than the loss of Warsaw. German success is due almost en- tirely to the great superiority of ar
 tiilery and military critics express the belief that as long as they main tain this and continue to press for ward the Russians must retire be- fore them. While the Russian armies remain intact, however, these critics are optimistic as to the future. Emperor William. who is reported to have arrived at Novogeorgievs<. will, it is understood, make a state entry into Warsaw and there let it be known by announcement what the future status of Poland will be.
 Along the western front are some spurts of liveliness in fighting, but nothing that can be called a battle. It is now evident the fresh landing of British troops at Suvlabay on the l Gallipoli peninsula robbed of it's ele- ment of surprise by the sudden appearance of Turkish reinforce ments proved somewhat of disap- pointment the only gain being an other strip on the peninsula in pos - session of the allies so that more Turkish troops must be employed against them.