The Elbert County tribune., 1915-07-30
WARSAW WATTACK
is COSTLY EFFORT
GERMANS MUST FIGHT HARD
FOR WEEK TO CAPTURE
POLISH CAPITAL.
SIX VESSELS CLAIMED
'UNDERSEA FIGHTING RENEWED
AND ONE OF ~" BOATS RE-
PORTED SUNK.

London.-Two German submarines,
which appeared suddenly in the midst
of fishing fleet off the north coast
of Scotland, destroyed all of the nine
vessels, by shell fire. The raid was
made with the evident determination
of cutting off the food supply of Great
Britain. Germans on the submarines
shouted in good English to the British
sailors: I'VE have nice little torpe-
does here for Winston Churchill and
Sir Edward Grey"
Petrograd.-An official bulletin says
In the Black sea Sunday our torpedo
boats operating in the coal region. de-
stroyed forty sailing ships laden with
coal. They also destroyed a new coal
shaft and a suspension bridge"
London. July 27.-Only the northern
point of the pincers, which the Austro-
Germans for more than a week have
been trying to close around Warsaw
and the Russian armies in the Polish
salient, has made any progress dur
ing the last few days. This point has
forced its way across the Narew river
between the fortresses of Pultusk and
Rozan. and is advancing toward the
Bug river. which stands for the great
er part of the way between it and the
Warsaw-Vilna railway. its objective.
The other point which Field Mar
shal Won Maskensen is directing at the
Chelm-Lublin railway, has hardly
gained yard of ground since it
reached the village of Reiovetz, just
south of the railway.
In offering stubborn resistance to
the German advance, the Russians are
making a continual threat at Won
Mackensen's flank along the Bug river
from the east of Chelm to east of
Lemberg
Between Krylow and Sokal their
attacks have been particularly severe,
compelling the Germans to send rein
forcements, probably intended to sup
port Won Mackensen, to meet them.
Along the Vistula. to the south and
west of Warsaw. there has been little
change except for the occupation by
the Germans of some positions evacu-
ated by the Russians when they drew
in their line.
While Warsaw is under heavy pres
sure. the Austro-Germans have a lot
of stiff work before them If they are
to bring their operations to a success
full ending by its capture.
Days and perhaps weeks of the most
desperate fighting on a gigantic semi
circle must be endured before the fall
of the Polish capital can be accomp-
lished.
After crossing the Narew the Aus
tro-Germans still have the broader
Bug. lined with fortresses. to face.
while on the Lublin- Chelm railway
there are strong Russian positions
which might prove the undoing of the
army which attacked them
There is no diminution in the
Italian offensive along the Isonzo
ceeding favorably for them. but which
the Austrians declare is meeting
with no success.
French troops stormed several
powerful German defensive works be-
tween La Fontelle heights and the
village of Taunois, in the Ban-De-
Sapt region of the Vosges mountains,
according to an official communica-
tion issued by the French War De-
partment.
London. - German submarines re-
sumed their activity in English waters,
sinking a French steamer and four
British trawlers and torpedoing a
British steamer.
One of the undersea boats is re-
ported to have been destroyed by
bombs and gunfire.
The French steamer Danae, bound
from Liverpool for Archangel, Russia,
was sunk off Cape Wrath. which
forms the northwestern extremity OF
Scotland.
The trawlers Henry Charles Kath-
leen, Activity and Prosper were sent
to the bottom in the North sea
The Danae was attacked by two
submarines.
The crews of the trawlers state
that one of the under water craft
was sunk by means of bombs and
guns fired from the trawlers.
The British steamer Firth (406
tons) of Aberdeen. bound from France
for Firth of Forth was torpedoed
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