Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-30
FURTHER RESISTANCE
is DEEMED UNWISE
Cars Armies Gravely Menaced,
Problem Is to Keep
Them Intact.
GERMANS TO TURN WEST
Expected to Hurl Forward Great
Armies in Endeavor to
Reach Calais or
Paris.

| LONDON, July 3O.-WarSaW,
the third city of Russia and the
goal for which the German armies
in the east have been striving
since October, is at least in the
throes Of abandonment. Germans
in rwhelming numbers are at
the gates of the Polish capital, and
dispatches both from the city it.
self and from Petrograd say that
further resistance would be un-
wise.
Discounted not only through
France and Great Britain, but in
Russia itself, the fall OF the city
is expected hourly, and the prob
lem now is to move the Russian
armies intact, threatened as they
are from the south by the Austro-
Germans and more seriously from
the north, where the German
forces, which have swept through
Poland, are aiming at the railway
from Warsaw to Petrograd. This
latter menace. the British press
admits, is imminent, and the hope
in the allied countries now is not
for the safety OF Warsaw, but for
the continued cohesion of the Rus
sian army.
The Warsaw post Office already
has been shifted to some point to
the eastward. the populace has
been warned to remain calm, and
presumably for days Russian
troops have been stripping the
city OF everything Of military
value.
Triumphal Entry for Kaiser.
| German aviators are lowering over
the city and according to German ad-
i vices plans have been completed for
the triumphant entrance of the German
emperor accompanied by his consort.
With Warsaw captured whether or
not it proves Il conquest of lasting
strategic advantage. n great wave of
enthusiasm will sweep over Germany
and Austria Hungary. and it is pre-
dicted here that the armies of the CEN
| trail powers will then seek to force a
ueriod of trench warfare in the east
meanwhile throwing Il great weight oil
men and guns to the west with the idea
| of resumins the battering toward
Calais and perhaps toward Paris.
Army's Preservation the Problem.
The funda mental question now is the
preservation of the Russian army in
! tact and undemoraliZed as 4 fighting
unit 1t has become approximately i'm
possible for Russia to remain strong
and we'll supplied on all fronts from the
Baltic to Bukowina.
The Austrians, though lacking viril-
! ity are still sufficiently strong at all
points to prevent Russia from shifting
| troops to the points attacked. The
Germans therefore. are able to con-
centrate an attack against any selected
| point with overwhelming superiority in
ammunition and troops
After nearly three months OF con-
! tinuous resistance the Russian line
| now takes great risk in Offering an
| opportunity to the Germans to break
| it and endanger the army.
| 1eNacuation of Warsaw is infinitely bet
| ter than risking disaster by holding
the city.
Preparing Russian Public.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Times.
dated Thursday, says:
The newspapers are preparing the
public mind for a new withdrawal,
necessitated by the enemy's over
in
nitions 1t is pointed out that further
efforts to cling to the Nistula-Narew
lines are attended with grave danger.
The paramount consideration is to pre-
serve the army, no matter at what
sa crice Of territory.
The hope is expressed in official cir
cles that the public will receive calmly
the news of the forthcoming retlre-
ment and evacuation
Little Fighting Expected.
The correspondent of the Times at
Warsaw. telegraphing under date OF
last Sunday night, says:
1T is not believed that there will be
any fighting in the vicinity of War
saw and probably only rear guard
action between here and the new line.
The post office moved today"
Some of the Russian military critics
regard as the most notable feature of
the latest official communication the
precise dating of the declaration that
July % the Narew line in general was
unbroken, in spite of the series of stub
born battles. The stubbornness of the
Russian defense in the north and south
is favorably commented upon In Petro.
grad.
Hard Struggle on Narew.
An incident that is causing much dis
cussion in Russia is the fact that the
struggle on the Narew in the erection
Of Serock and Pultusk has assumed the