Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-11
FIGHTING DESPERATELY
TO CONTROL RAILROADS
Austro-G German Forces Take Lomza,
and Draw Closer About
Wilma.
RUSSIAN POSITION PERILOus
Unless Defenders Can Make Stand
against Oncoming Troops, They
Soon VIII BE Left With But One
Road TO Supply Entire Front.

Especial Cable TO The Times Dispatch
LONDON. August l0--The Germans.
fEhtinS desperately 30 gain control Of
the railroads, not only before. but also
behind. tho Russian second line Of de
tense. have taken the fortress Of
Loa,za by storm and are drawing their
lines closer about Wilma. according to
Berlin official ncws tonight.
The retreat Of the Russian army which
evacuated lvauSorod has been made
extremely perilouS by IN" successes OF
the army OF the Austrian Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand and that OF General
Won Woyrsch. and Vienna. III an Of
fetal statement, says that "A day or
two will show whether it will he able
TO accomplish its retreat without tho
heaviest losses"
wilma an important town on the
PetroCrad Railway. is being evacuated
by the Russians, and German aviators
are hornhardinG both Wilma and Kovno
Zeppelins also have rained bombs on
Bielstock. junction on the Perosrad
Hallway. and kovel. n junction on the
railway leading To Odessa. southeast
rf Rrcst-Litovsk. An Austrian army
is moving AGAINST kovn from the direC-
tion OF Vlasimir- Nnlynski. If the Rus
SLAMS We're TO lose wilma and Kovel
they would have only one railway line
10 supply their entire front.
GERMANS PRESS FORWARD
IN EVERY DIRECTION
Meanwhile. the Germans claim to be
pressing forward everywhere against
the Russians retreating from the
Narew lines and Warsaw. The army
of General Won Falacke. which broke
through and occupied Lomza. is now
advancing, and south OF Lomza the
high road TO Ostrov has been crossed.
Lomza was the fourth Of the five Rus
sian fortrcsses guarding the Warsaw
PetroErad railway between Grodno and
Novo-GeorEievsk to fall. OSsowetz is
now the only fortified position delay
inr the German advance on BielstocH
Junction. and II is being subjected TO
heavy fire Owing TO its natural de-
fanscs. however. II is likely to prove
the toughest nut Of all TO crack.
!, is surrounded for miles by
swampS, preventing the Germans
from bringing UP their heavy siege
guns. Close fighting is going on in its
outer detenses. the Russians. at last
reports having repulsed violent at
tack.
Near Brok. however, the Germans
have advanced TO within n few miles
OF the railway and now have ii under
fire. The Germans, in this direction,
have pressed forward to Bojianny, and
have complete control OF the Bug from
that point to its mouth Since Satur-
day they have taken l0,l00 prisoners
in this fighting.
~
ing from the south. now have an un-
broken front from the Nistula to the
Bug, the army of General Won Woy-
rsch having joined the left wing of
Won Mackensens forces. Their opera
lions here, according to the Vienna
War Office, have placed the Russian
IvanEorod army - a most embarrass-
ing position.
The Archduke Joseph's victory at
Lubartow enabled the Austrians TO cut
The natural line of retreat from Ivan
Eorod eastward and 10 throw n force
across the road from Ivangorod to
Brcst -Litovsk. General Won Woyrsch's
army now has succeeded in breaking
through the Russian front from the
north. leaving only a narrow opening
by which the Slavs can hope TO escape.
and forcing them 10 take this chance
in Il swampy and dismal country,
which stretches for miles in an un-
broken vista OF marshes and scrub for
es,s
Prince Leopold of Bavaria. advanc-
ing from Warsaw has brought his
army TO a point near the Stanislawow-
Novo Mirsk Road. bridging the rail
wa TO Seidelc, While Won Woyrsch
is pressing forward in an effort to
reach Lu.ow at big bend In the line,
soEia ot Sa!Geic and between that point
arr B-est-L!tovak
CAMPAIGN SURPRISES
ANYTHING OF ITS KIND
TIE ca0.ss.sa. q, railroads and
.orccezsss II IL .easr su-Dasscs any
Wing % It's KIND any wa- The Rus
sian roads ara CON qarat.vely f.w, and
for which they are fighting they wiIl
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