The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-08-13
WARSAW TAKEN
BY KA|SER'S MEN
Bavarian Troops Carry the Po-
liSh Capital by Storm.
IvANG0R0D ALSO CAPTURED
Cars Army Believed to Have With
drawn in Safety, Protected by.
Rear Guard Actons-Teu-
tons Capture 1852 SIavs.
BY FREDERICK WERNER.

international News Service CORRESPONDENT
Berlin, Aug. 7.-Ivangorod, the
strong Polish fortress on the Vistulf
southeast Of Warsaw, has fallen. Aus
tro-German troops entered the city OF
thursday, 1t was officially announced
here.
Inc execution of Riga. on the Bal
TIC. is expected hourly, as the great
cavalry army of General Won Buelow
Is less than ten miles from the city
and driving strong against the rear
guard OF the retreating Russians.
After occupying Riga, the German
army OF the north is expected To
strike at the Warsaw-Petrograd rail.
way and cut in two this important
line OF communication.
Inc evacuation of Ivangorod was
part of the general plan of Grand
DUKE Nicholas to withdraw his troops
all along the line. The city is an
important railway center. One line
runs into Ivangorod from Warsaw.
another from N6vo Minsk. another
from Brest-Litovsk and others from
Radon. Lukow and Lublin.
Warsaw Is Captured.
Berlin, Aug. 6 (by wireless via Tuck
erton, n. JO.-Warsaw has fallen. OF.
hcial announcement of the CAPTURE of
the great Russian fortress on the Wis
tula river was made by the German
war offlce. The statement follows:
headquarters reports that Warsaw
was taken this morning. Prince
Leopold's Bavarian troops broke
through the forts on the outer and
inner lines where the Russian rear
guards were making tenacious resist
ance.
Inc armies of General Won Scholts
ana General Won Gallwitz have adj
vanced toward the road to Lomza. Os-
trow and Wyszkow with violent en-.
gagements taking place.
Russ Resistance Desperate.
desperate Russian resistance on
ooth sides Of the road from Ostrow to
hozan was without success. Twenty
TWO officers and 1910 soldiers were
taken prisoners and we captured II
machine guns.
German cavalry defeated in Cour-
and and Samititia Russian cavalry.
near Gensize. Birshi and Oniskszhty.
esterday and day before 2.225 Rus.
SLAMS were taken prisoners.
The situation near and north of
lvangorod is unchanged.
our pursuit of the enemy between
he Upper Vistula and Bug rivers con-
inues.
German cavalry has entered the
'egion of Vladimir and volynsk. east
If the Bug"
warsaw fell before the third great
drive that had for its
OBJECT the capture of the great Rus.
ian stronghold.
Inc capture Of the fortress means
hat the Germans are now in posses
lion OF great part of the network of
strategic railways in central Poland
Vnich the Russians had been using TO
hift troops from one part of their
'attle front to the other and for the
of ammunition and food
o the front.
Campaign Begun In May.
The campaign which ended in the |
apture of the Polish capital began
arly In May when Field Marshal Won |
lackensen, with a vast Austro-Cer. |
IAN army at his back, began driving
ne Russians from the Carpathians.
Surging eastward the Germans and
lustrians first took the mountain no
itions of the Russians and then re-
aptured Przemysl and Lemberg.
After the Russians had been driven
rom Galicia Field Marshal Won Mack.
nsen began sweeping northward to
ct behind Warsaw. In the meantime
ield Marshal Won Hindenburg to
HON the lions share of the credit
oes, was waiting in northern Poland
nd at the proper moment began driv.
lg southwark In the meantime Cen
raj Won Buelow had cut into Russian
ourland with a gigantic cavalry army
nd dashed toward Riga in order TO
ever the Warsaw-Petrograd lines of
and prevent the retire
tent Of Grand Duke Nicholas. Rms.
an army.
All along the line the Russians pa
red. They were lacking in arms and
mmunition and oppo-ing them we've
lie flower Of the German and Austrian
-mies.