The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-08
Now Have Clean Sweep Some
Thirty-6ve Miles East of
Present Lines of Russians
GERMANS ALREADY
HAVE FORT DEMBE
Russians Will Make Determin.
ed Effort to Delay Germans
by Resisting Stubbornly
Seige of Novogeorgievsk

London, Aug. There are re-
newed fears In London tonight
that a large portion of the Rus
sian army may be cut OFT before
IL gets away from the region OF
Warsaw.
Dispatches, official and unof-
flciai, from Berlin today state that
a large Russian force Is still on
the east bank of the Vistula,
around Pragsa. across from War.
saw, seeking to prevent the Ger
mans from rebridging the river.
and keeping the last avenue TO
Novogieorgievsk open.
The same dispatches declare that
the 5000 soldiers OF General voS
Gallw!tz and General Won Scholz haye
broken down the Russian resistance
on the north side of Lomza, which
gives them a clean sweep 35 to 40
miles east of the present lines Of the
Russian forces. Once they strike the
railway leading south from Lornza
through Podgorze their progress can
be rapid. They already announce The
capture. OF about $4,000 officers ana
men with some munitions.
Situation Not Clear.
The situation at Novogecrgievsk ~
not clear to military observers tonight.
Petrograd has declared that the FORTH
fcation which can easily contain an
entire army corps of 10000 will with
stand siege Unofficial report from
Berlin say the Russians have begun
to evacuate the fortifcation.
The official dispatch announces that
the Germans have already taken Fort
Dembe. on the Narew and Dienkow, on
the vistula 1t is not definitely known
what part of the Notifications these
Al ~.
circling forts around the place. each
with a mean distance of ten miles from
the inner citadel It Is supposed these
are two OF the eight
Way of Escape May still BE Open.
At the same time IL is probable that
the investment of Novogeorgievsk is
not complete, and that there Is still
a way open towards Praga, by way OF
Novo Dwar, a distance of perhaps
miles. Russia's messages
on the subject today are as they were
yesterday--theplace is to be held and
can be held for at least four months,
and so long as they stand they will
prevent Germany from taking advan-
tagss of the navigable waters of tho
Vistula for her fiotiIla of light draught
monitors and gunboats.
General Won Mackensen's army In
the southeast is still pressing towards
Brest-IitovSk. or towards a line be-
tween the fertilization of Siedloe,
which is fifty miles east of Warsaw.
General Won Woyrsch, acting in CO.
ordination with the main German
forces In that region, Is also pressing
towards the north from Ivangorod-
Loss or Large Force reared.
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