Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-19
RUSSIANS CHECK
GERMAN DRIVES
IMackensen's Right Defeat t.
ed, Hating Drive on
Warsaw
A FIERCE TUG OF WAR
Centre in Danger From Determined
Muscovite Assaults - Desperate
Fighting at Przasynysz and Riga.
Desperate

Petrograd, July 19-Defeat o!
General Mackensen's right wing In
the great battle south of the Lublin-
Cholm railway has at least tempo
rarily checked the new German Of
fensive on Warsaw.
Official dispatches today reported
the Germans are rapidly shifting
troops from all fronts to the support
of Mackensen, whose center is endan-
gered by furious Russian attacks.
Both sides Of the German wedge,
whose apex rests near Krasnotaf, are
being battered in by the re-enforc-
ed Slav armies, and continuation of
the Russian advance threatens to cut
off 4 large body of German troops.
Desperate fighting around Przasn-
ysz and in the Riga region to the
north has resulted in severe lossc:;
on both sides in the last twenty-fcur
hours. The war office admits that TIE
Russian retirement still continues at
some sections of this front, but mill
tary men here see no menace in voT
Hindenburg's offensive.
On the contrary, the belief pre-
walls in Petrograd that Won linden
burg's dash from the north is d feint
to conceal the major operation Of
Mackensen III the region south If
Lubin. Reports that von-lIindenbure
is aiming at Warsaw with an army o;
a million men, the war Office belle
yes, have been purposely sent on:
from Berlin IN an attempt to cover
up the shifting of troops to the aid
of Mackensen.
Since the withdrawal Of German
divisions from Galicia, the Austriars
have made no perceptible gain II
positions. Though greatly outnum-
hered at several portions Of south
eastern front, the Russian troops
have had no difficulty II beamhmht
have had no difficulty in beating
back Austrian attacks.
London, July 19--The Russian front
running from the Baltic in the north
to Bessarabia in the south, distance
of nearly 1000 miles, is being sub
jectcd to violent attacks by the Ger
mans and Austrians, and in places,
according to the German official re
port, has been pierced.
In the Baltic provinces, General Won
Buelow, who is using large forces o;
cavalry, has crossed the Windau river
and is moving toward Riga. In the
Prazasnyz district Field Marshall Won
who is making his fourth
to reach Warsaw, has twice
broken the Russian lines and compel
led the defenders to retire toward the
Narew river.
In Southern Poland, after a period
of inactivity, Field Marshal von Mack
ensen is again on the move, and
claims to have captured some Rus
sian advanced positions, which stood
between him and his objective, the
Lubin-C -Cholm Railway.
simultaneously with these attacks,
which are the main ones, the Austro-
German armies are on the offensive
west of the Vistula river, in Central
Poland, and along the Dniester river,
in Galicia. AS was the case in the
drive through Western Galicia, the
Russians are fighting stubhornly, and
on occasions ase turning and deliycr-
ing vicious blows at their opponents.
But whether they will be able to hold
their respective lines is problemantl-
cal.
With the enormous number of Ger
man troops being used for the ogen-
sive in the east-the greatest move
mcnt of the kind ever undertaken In
the history of war-the military cri-
tics here do not look for any events
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