The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
GERMANS FINALLY
GET INTO WARSAW
lBavarian Troops Under Prince
Leopold First to Enter the
Capital of Poland.
RUSSIANS ARE STILL FIGHTING
Victorious Teutons Continue to Press
Forward-Grand Dukes Army
May Yet Be Trapped.

London, Aug. 6.-An Amsterdam dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company says the announcement of
the fall OF Warsaw caused great dem
onstrations throughout Germany.
The official bulletins the dispatch
adds indicate that the Russians re-
treated in good order and the invaders
found little booty and nothing of mill
tary value.
Emperor William has sent con-
gratulatory message to Prince Leopold
and the King of Bavaria.
Extraordinary scenes of enthus-
iasm were witnessed in the German
cities"
The Russian official communication
of Thursday, received here this morn
ing. does not mention the fall of War
saw, the only reference to that dis
trict being as follows:
ITO the west of Warsaw and south
of the Blonie road yesterday we sue
cessfully repulsed German attacks
Germans Hold Warsaw.
The Germans are in possession of
Warsaw, capital of Poland and the
third largest city in the Russian en-
pire. Bavarian troops entered the
city this morning, having taken sue
cessively the BIonie lines and the out
er and inner fortresses of the city it.
self, the Russians only fighting rear
guard actions to allow their main
army to make good its escape.
The Russians are fighting desperate
ly and stubbornly to check the prog
ress of these four armies and have had
several successes in inficting heavy
losses on their pursuers; but they are
being steadily pressed back, which
made the longer occupation of the
Warsaw Polish salient a hazardous
undertaking.
Russ Army In Danger.
Even now, although the steadiness
OF the Russian troops and their fierce
counter-attacks have gained much val
liable time for them, it is problemati
cal whether the whole Russian army
will succeed in reaching the new posi-
tions chosen for it, or whether, if il
should get there, it will not find those
positions turned by the Austrians who
have crossed the Bug southeast OF
Chelm and the Germans under General
Won Scholz and General Won Galwitz
who have crossed the Narew.
An official communication issued al
Petrograd says:
In view of conditions and the gen
eral situation our troops west of War
saw have received orders to fall back
on the right bank of the Vistula.
In the Ivangorod district the Rus
slams have crossed to the right bank
of the Vistula, blowing up the bridges
behind them
Russians Driven Back.
London, Aug. s.-After trying three
weeks to force the Russians to evacu
ate Warsaw and the Polish salient By
encircling movements from the north
and pressure from the west, the Aus
tro-Germans have commenced attacks
on the fortress of the capital and
those of Lomza and Ostrolenka, to the
northeast, and IVangorod, to the south
east
Berlin claims tonight that the Rus
slams have been driven back to the
advanced defenses of LOmza, that the
Narew has been crossed near Ostro
lenka, that, driven out of their Blonie
positions, the Russians have falleI
back into the outer lines of WARSAW
which the Bavarians are attacking
and that the Austrians have captured
the western part of the fortress o.
Ivangorod
Thus, what should prove decisive
battle for the Polish capital has begun
in earnest
Mackensen Continues Advance.
IN the meantime Field Marshal voI
Mackensen slowly is advancing from
the southeast between the Vistula anC
the Bug in an effort to cut off the
Russian armies, which apparently arr
making a leisurely exit from Warsaw
and the western lines, while Genera
Won Buelow, in his wider encirclins
movement through Courland, ha
reached Kupischl, some fifty miIe
west of Dvinsk on the Vilna-Petrograc
Railway
Although the operations of Vol
Mackensen and Won BueIow appea
to offer the most dangerous threat
to the retiring Russian armies, tn
Russian general staff is paying NOR
attention to Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg. who has been trying witt
more or less success to force the lin
of the NareW