Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-28
Won HINDENBURG BALKED
ALONG THE NAREW RIVER
Germans Battle Fiercely for Lublin.
Chelm Railway, But Fail to
Gain Goal.
INTENSE FIGHTING RESUMED
Teutons Claim to Have Improved
Positions on Extreme Right.
Which Rests on
the Bug.

LONDON, July 2s.-Though
the Germans now hold a great
line from the Gulf of Riga sweep
ing southwestward around War
saw, thence encircling the city and
stretching away to the Galician
frontier, near Soka1, it is esti-
mated they have lost 100000 men,
perhaps more, in this the most
ambitious movement of the war,
and the Russian front is not vet
broken.
On the Narew river, north of
the Polish capital, the Russians
have made stubborn show of re-
sistance, holding Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg for the time be-
ing in check, while to the south
the combined Austro-German
forces struggling to seize the
Lublin-Chelm railway have been
for days on the threshold of sue
cess without being able actually
to achieve their goal.
Fighting on this latter front has
been renewed with great intensity
and the Teutons claim to have i'm
proved their position on the ex-
treme right, which is resting on
the Bug river.
Immediately west of Warsaw
comparative quiet prevails, and it
is along the Lublin-Chelm sector
or in the Narew river region that
it is believed a crisis will be
reached.
Victory Might Mean City's Fall.
Which one of these fronts is of the
greater strategic importance London
critics cannot agree. but this is ir-
relevant. as a German victory on either
one doubtless would mean the fall of
Warsaw.
The German forces in the Baltic prov
inces advancing along a trout approx
mately eighty miles wide toward wilma,
with view to seiZing the railway
from Warsaw to Petrograd. are daily
becoming a more potent factor in the
fighting, for. linked up with the forces
to the southwest, they give the Ger
mans a front of 300 miles with which
to effect a vast turning movement north
of Warsaw.
Under Fire of Warships.
The troops operating against Riga.
from which city they are only twenty
miles distant, are considered in the
nature of an independent column. and
it is these forces which have come un-
der the fire of the Russian warships.
Military critics in Petrograd are CIV
ing equal attention to the operations
on the left bank of the Narew, those
against Chelm and along the Bug. The
Germans have brought up strong re-
serves. but the Russians are offering
powerful defense and have taken the
offensive successfully at several points
HostiIities Are Widened.
The pressure of the Germans on the
Nadarzyn- Pia aseczno line west of the
vistula is regarded as designed to pre-
vent the Russians from withdrawing
the attention from that section. White
a certain economy of German effort is
noted in the southern area of hostilities
where operations between the Vistula
and the VieprZ have reached stand
still, observers see a tendency on the
part OIL the lSuloHiC dlilcS " Nlueit tnt
sphere of hostilities toward the east.
It Is now regarded as certain that their
aim is not only to destroy communica
tions with Petrograd by the operations
north of Kovno, but also by driving
against Brest-Litovsk behind Warsaw
by way of Chelm and the right bank of
the Bug.
French Claim Repulse of Attacks.
Several different German attacks
were delivered against French trenches
in Artois, in the vicinity of Souchez,
last night and. after spirited combats.
were driven from practically all the
points which they gained, according to
the French official statement of today.
In the vicinity of Fontaine-aux-
Charmes the Germans undertook an
attack, but are, reported to have been
driven back by French infantry.
Comparative quiet reigns along the
remainder Of the front in the western
arena, according to the French state-
ment.