Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-22
Germans Sweeping on War
saw and Within Ten
Miles Of Riga.
RUSSIANS EMPLOY
TACTICS OF 1872
q. Burning Stores and Laying Waste
Country as in Napo'son's Time-Am-
sriean Consul at Warsaw Gables
e.Ioian and ssrvian censuls Have
Lsft and American Consulate Has
Charge Of Affairs Of Those Countries.

London, July 2z-W ME prayers ava
victory were being said today tnruout
Russia the Austrians and Germans
continued their drive at Warsaw from
the north, the west and the south.
Meanwhile they were reaching further
north towards Riga. on the Baltic from
which their advance guard is not more
than twenty miles.
The tone Of dispatches from Petro-
grad bespeaks plainly that the country
!. a~.ra Of the graveness Of the mil
itary situation involving not only tho
fate Of the Polish capital but the IN
tegrity OF the Russian army IN Poiano'
tho northern and southern sections OF
which might be cut in twain BY CO
c,.ive defeat along the Lublin-Chelm
railway. It IL along this section that
,ha Russians are now fighting most
desperately, for this railway Is the SOLO
xreat artery Of communication with
Poland. ...a
Having several times been reported
ruithin Ave miles of the railroad anu
nnw. according to Austrian claims'
havinr pierced the Russian front, TINS
section OF the Teutonic forces should
he within rife shot Of the railway. Dut
~ claim has been made OF having
seized it r.,-
sn-.h cs Lublin, however, the Teu-
tonic forces have pushed forwards 20
the br.dgehead position south OF Ivan.
rnrod md thence northward. AROUND
the circle which is Tightening on war
xaw they have made steady proeress'
althn meeting with serious opposiuon
a1onar the Marew river northwest OF the
-anital Elsewhere generally speakinS
the Rnssians are falling back and en-.
nInvinx the tactics with which they
harrassed. Napoleon in 1872, that 49,
thev are not only burning all bridges
and destroying roads. but are laying
waste the country side with hre ana
aynamite. removing such provisions as
thew can. destroying such as they can
not take away, driving cattle and other
livestock before them and leaving for
,,he Invaders q ruined and desoiate
waste.
All of courland has been laid waste
md Wtndau, in flames, sent up glow
Visible many miles away.
The British public is following with
teen anxiety the campaign In the east,
,onine that Grand Duke Nicholas may
Stem the Austro- German tide or at
least extricate his armies and continue
In further retreat the cohesion he mas
been able to maintain thus far.
eliminating the stroke against Riga.
the operation in Poland occupy q front
OF roughly 800 miles. divisible Into
three principal areas: The first. along
the Marew. north and west OF Warsaw;
the second, the center of the vistula.
between Warsaw and lvangorod; the
third. in the vicinity Of Lublin. where
the Russians. Austrians and the Ger
mans are fghting for the railway. The
situation q the British press sees IT,
is critical and the papers editorially
remind Russia that as she checked the
Germans 1t the gates Of Warsaw last
fall and drove them back within eleven
miles Of Lublin, so she should now
hold them.
Coincident with dispatches from
Russia saying the spirit Of the army
ia unbroken and the belief In the ulti-
mate il strong, comes the report that
he feeling ie growing that Russia 10
doing more than her share in the war,
bearing at present almost the entire
burden. Thsse complaints according to
special. correspondence. are not con-
.fined. 70 the rank and file. Russian
papers contrast the colossal battle IN
which their nation is engaged with the
comparative inaction along the west
front.