The farmer and mechanic., 1915-08-03
AUSTRlANS ENTER lUBl IN
Invaders Thus Have Succeeded
in Cutting The LubIin-CheIn
Railroad an important Line
OF Communication With Rus
SLAMS Between VistuIa and
Bug
(By the Associated Pressl

Warsaw, the goal Of Teutonic
armies in the East, is being evacuated
by the Russian forces according to
aovlces received from Liabach. Aus
tria, transmitted through Geneva
German aviators returning from OBJ
servatlonS over the Polish capital. re-
ported that the troops of Grand Duke
Nlcholas could be seen retiring to the
eastward.
A hundred miles southeast of War
| saw, AustrO-Germany cavalry have
entered Ilublln, one of the chief cities
of Poland. The Austro-German mill
| tary commanders have thus succeed
| ed in cutting the Lublin- -Chelm rail
| road an important line of commune
| cation with the Russians maSsed be-
tween the Vistula and Bug rivers
| TO the north of Warsaw the Ger
| mans are making a determined effort
| to reach Wilma, with the object Of sew
erlng the Warsaw Petrograd railway
| and of making more hazardous the
retirement of the Russian forces in
the region Of the Polish capital
Military operations in the western
theatre We're confined to artillery
| duelS, the explosion of mines and at
| tackS by aerOplanes. German aviators
dropped bombs on the French towns
OF Gravelines POl-Sur-Ma and
Nancy, but according to the French
|
age was done.
Steamer Torpedoed.
The British steamer Iberian of s.
223 tons gross burden and owned by
the Leyland Line. carrying a large
crew and number of muleteers back
to the United States was torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine
Sixty-one members of the crew were
saved, but seven, including one Amer
lean are reported to have lost their
lives. The captain of the Iberian
: according to the report Of the Ameri-
can consul at Queenstown attempted
to escape and was shelled by the
submarine. The crew was given time
to enter the life boats before the
| vessel was torpedoed and sent to the
bottom.
il Eight more British fishing trawlers
t have been accounted for by German
. under-sea boats. The crews of all the
} vessels were saved.
Germany's reply to the American
| note of June "a regarding the sinking
of the American wheat ship William
p. Frye by a German commerce raid
e er in the South Atlantic has beer
D despatched to Washington.
: Anti-American outbreaks are re
: ported by travellers arriving at Zu
o rich, Switzerland, to have taken place
9 in Berlin. Students are said to have
: gathered in front Of the American
l embassy DuliOlnS, nOOC1IS ana ycliluS
: | until dispersed by the police.
t Situation at Warsaw.
8 London, July 31.-The fate Of tn
Russian armies in the Polish Salien
e still hangs in the balance. No of
fetal confirmation had been receive
is up to a late hour tonight Of the evac
s. uation of Warsaw by the Russia
o troops but they are withdrawing east
d ward is certain.
J., What portion will succeed in get
h ting back to the new line is a matte
n of speculation. The arrival Of Aus
It trian cavalry at Lublin, officially an
le nounced from Vienna. shows that tn
southern line of retreat is entlrel
l. barred to the retiring army.
j. There remain, however. the mai
is double track route through Minsk an
an equally good road from Ivangoro
,. through LukoW and the northern linz
lie which runs south of the Bug river,
N say nothing of innumerable vehlcula
w roads which enter the Polish capits
.. from the east Therefore, SO long g
a. Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
es prevented from crossing the Bu
al from the northeast. it is believe
It. Grand Duke Nicholas has still an e.
A. cellent chance of saving his who
army.
,e Will Face Another Danger.
ID When the Russians do reach tn
We new line of defense they will be face
Ill by another danger|that arising 1rol
n the advance of General Won BueloW
al army. composed largely of cavalr
n which is now approaching the fortre:
g. of kovno and which is within thre
TO DAYS march of the Vilna-Petrogra
ed railway.
n 1t probably will be several ia!
ey before the struggle is finally decide
"a NOBODY QueSaioHS .ho
the CAPTURE Of Warsaw the German