The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
sREsT-LlToVsK, RUssIA's MOST
POWERFUL FORT, sToRMED
BY THE GERMANS.
AIR RAID BY ALLIED BIRDMEN
A Daring Raid Was Made by Sixty
Two Aviators on a German Ammu-
milton Factory-EngIish Aviator
Destroys a Submarine.
Latest European War News.

Qay. WHll6 In6 huSslaDe OiISI6u
stout resistance to the invaders dur
ing their approach to the fortress, it
is apparent they did not attempt to
defend Brest-Litovsk itself, but eVac-
uated it as they did Ossowetz in con-
formity with their intention indicated
in dispatches from Petrograd to take
up new positions further east.
The Germans are now in possession
of the whole line of railway from
Chelm to Bialystok, the Russians al
ready having evacuated the latter
city.
The Russians have not yet entered
the vast BieloVieza forest, which ex-
tends 80 miles north and south and
has a width of from II to 80 miles.
The forest is famous hunting center.
There is again talk of Russian prep
aratiOns for stand, but no indiCa-
lions as to where this attempt is to be
made.
The Russian fortress of Brest.
LitOYsk, which has just capitulated to
the Austro-German forces, had been
considered one of the strongest fort
resses in Europe and was the south
ern base Of the second Russian line
Of defenses to which the armies Of
Grand Duke Nicholas retreated after
the fall of Warsaw. The citadel is 131
miles south of Grodno and 120 miles
due east of the Polish capital. The
town, with population of about 50,-
600, was one of the most important
depotg for military supplies near the
western frontiers of Russia proper.
It was rated as much more important
strategically than was Warsaw.
Aircraft again have broken the mo.
notony of the western warfare Sixty.
two French aeroplanes flew over the
Dellingen iron works near Saarlouis,
Rhenish Prussia, dropping Is bombs,
while British aviator is reported to
have dropped bomb On and destroy
4 cd a German submarine off Ostend.
The German report says four of the
French machines In the attack near
saarlouis were brought down, one Of
them, however, falling behind the
French lines.
BY the capture of Novogeorgievsk,
The qGagtro-Germans have opened for
their use the great Vistula river trans.
portation, route into the interior Of
Poland. German steamers are in
waiting at WysEogrod, few miles be-
low che fortress, and within a day or
two tows RoE barges laden with am.
munitions sgpplies for the army, and
ceal and Professions for the occupied
region of Poland, will be heading up
the long reaches Of the river past
Warsaw to the aalacian frontier.
The capture Of. the fortress also
opens highly important railroad line
from Germany via Mlawa to Warsaw,
north of the Yistlla, whereby rail
communication cam be established
with Eastern Poland and the present
military front without awaiting the
rebuilding Of the great bridges across
the Vistula at WarsaWA which were
destroyed by the Russians before their
retreat.
The naval battle in which German
sRd Russian warships have been en-
ed for several days in the Gulf Of
has resulted in the German
Set withdrawing after having lost
the battle cruiser Moltke, warship of
the dreadnaught type, three other
cruisers and seven torpedo boats, &C.
cofding to statement credited to the
president of the Russian duma.
The announcement Of the president
OF the duma was as follows:
Tn the Riga battle the Germans
lest one super-dreadnaught, the
Moltke, three cruisers and seven tor
ped9 boats.
The German fleet has withdrawn
from Riga bay"
German successes in occupying the
fortress OF Ossowetz and a British
naval bombardment Of the German
naval base at zeebruggs furnished
series Of news features this week
which temporarily diverted attention
from tn gravity of the issue growing
out of the sinking of the steamer
Arabic by German submarine.
Aside from the loss of the German
ships, the naval engagement is regard.
ed chiefly important for the strategic
effect upon the land operations In the
German sweep eastward toward Pc
trograd, which military observers now
consider as having been checked and
possibly irreparably defeated.
The German center has pressed for.
ward steadily until Prince Leopold
Of Bavaria is near the Russian new
line Of defense, but military observers
SAY that the entire campaign hinges
on the vast enveloping movement of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
fprces in the north. They have sue
ceeded in pushing far beyond Riga to
Jacobstad on the Dvina, but the Rus
slams hold on the gulf of RIGA, and
the great naval base Of Riga was