The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-08-10
RUSSIAN ARMY HEMMED
WITHIN NARROW AREAS
Possible Withdrawal Space is
Only About 30 Miles Across.
ALLIES GET A VICTORY.
German Successes Around War
saw Vicinity.

saw vicinity.
The Teutonic allies continue sue
cessfully their operations against the
Russians in northwes: Russia and in
Poland an engagement TO drive the
remaining Russians from East Cali
cia has begun; the British have re-
captured trenches in Belgium, taken
from them recently and have cap
tured 700yards of additional trenches
there; French airmen have lombard
ed Saarbrucken in Rhenish Prussia;
the Italians and Austrians still are in
heavy combat on the mountains in
the valleys and on the plains in the
Austro-Italian grounds.
These in prlef, are the latest de-
velopments of the war as made pub
lie through the various war chan
cellories.
Starting in northwest Russia,
where the fortress of Kovno is close
ly pressed, down through Poland to
a point below Warsaw and thence
eastward across the Vistula and
northeastward between the Vistula
and the Bug, the Teutons, according
to Berlin and Vienna. are drawing
more closely together the lines which
threaten to clear Poland entirely of
the armies of Emperor Nicholas.
Won Hindenburg's troops, north and
northeast of Warsaw. are pressing
east and southeast and ring of be-
siegers has been forged around
Novogeogrgievsk, the last Russian
stronghold on the Vistula line.
Praga. the eastern suburb of War
saw has been captured. The rail
road from Warsaw to Lublin has
been crossed between Ivangorod and
Bug and along the vieprz the Rus
SLAMS still are falling back.
TIE bag of prisoners at Warsaw
was small, Berlin declaring that only
. few thousand were taken. Nor has
the number captured by Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand been large, Wen
ma asserting merely that the number
of men captured by him has been in
creased to 5000"
Although the Teutonic allies seem
ingly have not been successful as yet
in entrapping any large section of
the Russian forces. they have, accord
ting the Overseas Agency, obtain
ed bountiful supply of foodstuffs
for their men and forage for their
horses. The news agency reports
that many farmers disobeyed the
Russian orders to destroy their
crops and that the Germans and
Austrians therefore have come in for
a full harvest of rye. wheat and oats.
London, Aug. 9.--While the Aus
tro-German armies made fresh prog
ress against the Russians today. the
of the allies. Sir John French re-
ported that in fierce artillery en-
gagement the British and French
captured trenches at Hooge, along a
front of 1900 yards.
The occupation of Praga reported
by Berlin, brings to a climax the
first phase of the German drive
eastward from Warsaw Praga is
essentially a part of the capital, with
great railway stations on the roads
running to Petrograd and Moscow.
Few details have been received OF
the final Russian stand at Praga but
Indications are that withdrawal be
came imperative to escape from the
German lines grad dually drawing to-
gether in the rear.
Warsaw Is now the apex ,; vas,
lester v, the rrns OF waico are TIRE
river Sarew IN the north and "a"
Vistua. on the south. The German
lines spread along these rivers are
contracting gradually as the armies
In the north and those In the south
approach each other. The strip of
territory across which the Russians
may withdraw to safer positions now
arly more than 30 miles across.
Besides this enveloping movement
Immediately cast OF Warsaw Berlin
reports a steady hammerng at the
great Russian fortresses of Kuvno
and LomZa, whose chief significance
Is their proximity to the lines OF rail