New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-07
Armies Leave the Capital
Without Interference,
Confident of Future.
RIGA'S EVACUATION
IN FULL SWING
Fate of City Sea1ed-Germans
Celebrate Victories and Think
Cars Offensive Broken.

Petrograd, Aug. 6.-The Russian
newspapers to-day are unanimous in
stating that Russia's determination to
pursue the war TO a victorious end
has been strengthened by the enforced
evacuation Of Warsaw. The "Rech"
says:
"As long as the army is intact we
can confidently face the future"
Nowo Georgiewsk, nineteen miles
northwest of Warsaw, still remains in
Russian hands to-day. notwithstanding
the evacuation of the Polish capital,
according to information received by
the RUSSIAN War Office.
The fortress has been prepared for
a siege and already is invested. 1t
constitutes the only fortified position
on the Vistula River in possession OF
the Russians.
The immediate causes of the evacu-
alton Of Warsaw, according to the
War Office, were "the advances Of the
enemy in great force on the roads
toward Ostrow. from Ostrolenka and
Rozan, and the presence of large forces
of the enemy, who had broken across
the Vistula River between Ivangorod
and Warsaw at Motzewitz."
Nowo Georgiewsk Still Held.
A War Office official, reviewing the
situation, said:
"The day before the evacuation we
already had abandoned the old brick
fortress Of Ivangorod on the left side
of the Vistula. We still hold the right
bank fortifcations, but, inasmuch as
this fort has lost its Importance with
the abandonment of the left bank OF
the position, strictly speaking. the
only fortified point in our hands at
present is Nowo Georgiewsk.
According to information at hand
the enemy has been making every eff
fort to envelop the position, and the
fortress has been left to its own re-
sources, to which end it had long been
prepared.
"Our armies in the forward theatre
of war are gradually moving back to
the positions assigned to them, thus
giving them the important advantage
of a shortened front and also Of bring
ing them nearer to the fortified line
of Kovno, Grodno and Brest-Litovsk.
1.-THE retreat was carried out not un-
der immediate pressure of the enemy,
but in consequence of decision taken,
notwithstanding some instances in
which our armies were having partial
successes, often being able to force
the enemy backward. With the oc-
cupation of new positions on the left
bank of the Bug and in the direction
of vladimir Wolynsk and Kovel it is
believed that a serious barrier to the
enemy's progress against Brest-Litovsk
has been erected"
Russians Take Blow Quietly. -
The loss of Warsaw had long been
discounted in Petrograd and it caused
no excitement. The newspapers COM
mented on the fall of the Polish capf-
tai without emotion, referring with re-
gret to its loss as necessity and
which is regarded by them as being
only temporary.
In the vanguard Of the German
forces approaching Warsaw are said
to have been five brigades prepared
to combat any confagration.
The Russian War Office comments on
the effect of Warsaw's capitulation on
the northern front as follows:
"The enemy is slowly advancing, but
against great opposition on the part
Of the Russian armies, in the Narew
and Lomza directions.
an the vicinity of Riga the Ger
mans received a severe check on the
Misa River. They were forced to
withdraw to Ekau, several miles to the
southwark"