New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
GERMANS PIERCE
RUSSIANS LINES
ON WIDE FRONT
Advance in Baltic Prov
inceS and in North and
South Poland.
PETROGRAD ADMITS
WARSAW IN DANGER
Twenty-eight Officers, $3.50
Men, Nine Machine Guns Capt
ured Between ViStula and Bug.

London, July 18.-The Russian front,
running from the Baltic in the north
to Bessarabia in the south, distance
Of nearly thousand miles, is being
subjected to violent attacks by the
Germans and Austrians, and in places
has, according to the German official
report, been pierced.
In the Baltic provinces, Gener Won
Buelow, who is using large forces Of
cavalry, has crossed the Windau River
and is moving toward Riga. In the
Przasnysz district Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, who is making his fourth
attempt to reach Warsaw, has twice
broken the Russian lines and com
PEELED the defenders to retire toward
the Narew River.
In southern Poland, after period
Of inactivity, Field Marshal Won Mack
cnsen is again on the move, and claims
to have captured some Russian ad-
vanced positions which stood between
him and his objective, the Lublin-
Cholm Railway.
Wide Austrian Offensive.
simultaneously with these attacks,
which are the main ones, the Austro-
German armies arc on the offensive
west Of the Vistula River, in Central
Poland, and along the Dniester River,
in Galicia As was the case in the drive
through Western Galicia, the Russians
are fighting stubbornly, and on occa-
sion are turning and delivering vicious
blows at their opponents, but whether
they will be able to hold their present
lines is problematical.
The probability Of the Russians hav-
ing to evacuate Warsaw, which is
threatened by Won Hindenburg in the
north and Won Mackensen in the south
is being seriously discussed. The pos
sibiiity of a further retreat. however
is being calmly considered in Russia,
where the old theory that the turther
the enemy is drawn into the country
the worse it is for him buoys up their
hopes of final victory.
For the present Berlin IS the only
capital celebrating, and again FleId
Marshal Won Hindenburg, whose sue
cess in the Przasnysz region Is the
cause of it, is being lauded.
Greatest love Ever Tried.
with the enormous number of Ger
man troops being used for the ohen-
Il, fa,a ~ n q
of the kind ever undertaken in the
history of mankind military critics
here do not look for any events OF
outstanding Importance in the west
for sometime to come.
TIE Russian official statement Is
sued on Saturday night admits tpat
"on the Goldngen- Mouravievo front
the enemy retained his positions on
the right banks of the rivers Windau
and Venta and continued his advance
in the direction of Tekum near the
Gulf of Riga, thirty-eight miles west
Of the city of Riga and Autz'
The Berlin official report, issued also
on Saturday evening, speaks Of this
advance as follows:
The army of General Won Buelow,
which on July II crossed the Wlndau
River near and north of Kurshany,
continued its victorious advance.
Eleven officers and 2,450 men were
taken prisoners and three canncn and
five machine guns were captured
Russian Defeat at Autz.
To-dav's statement shows that the
advance is still continuing:
Portions of the army Of General
Won Buelow have defeated the Rus
sian forces near Autz, where $500 men
and six guns and three machine guns
we're captured They are pursuing the
enemy in an easterly direction.
"Other portions of this army are
fighting 10 the northeast f Kurshany.
East OF that town an enemy advance
position has been stormed."
The three German movements against
Warsaw from the northeast southeast
and southwest are all proceeding with
out notable checks. The German Of
fetal statement says:
Between the PISA and Nistula riv-
ers the Russian troops are ~etreatlng
and the troops of Generals Won Scholtz
and Won Gallwitz are close behind them.
Three Lines Pierced.
"The army of General Won Gallwitz
PROCEEDED against Lle lNNaSlall P"9'''"'',
IN the district south and southeast OF
Olawa.
after a brilliant attack three Rus
sian lines, situated behind each other
northwest and northeast Of Przasnysz,
were pierced. Dzielin was captured
and Lipa was reached and attacked by
rr,ssure exerted from both these di-
lcctions. The Russians retreated, after
the evacuation of PrzasnysZ on July Il,
70 their line of defence from Ciechanow
10 Krasnosielo, lying behind them. On
,uly Is German troops also took these
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