The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-08-11

Russians-HopefuI of Escape.
London, August 9.-The fate of the
Russian forces that have retired from
Warsaw and its environs is hourly be-
coming more hazardous.
English military critics have been
quick to see a great peril to the Rus
sian forces in the news which says
that the Germans have reached the
Bug south of Wyszkow. There is a
very slight hope held out in the possi-
bility that only a very small force of
troops has been left east of Warsaw to
hamper the German troops, who are
seeking to cross the Vistula at Praga
and elsewhere in that locality.
But this hope is only the slightest.
for it is we'll known that the Germans
have held here for several days and
there is not much likelihood that they
could have been held by any but a
considerable force.
Wireless dispatches from Berlin say
that the Germans have occupied Sc
rock, at the confluence of the Bug and
the Narew, and that they have crossed
the Bug north of Serock and south of
Wyszkow. This means that they are
within five or six miles of the all-im-
portant Warsaw to Petrograd railroad.
which, if cut before the Russian troops
have escaped, will mean the almost
certain development and capture of an
enormous army.
With SerOck in their possession and
a crossing of the Bug already effected
to the north, additional German forces
are rapidly approaching the Lomza-
Ostrow-Wyszkow road. This road re-
turns in northeasterly direction from
Warsaw, Lomza, the fartheSt removed
town being seventy miles away. The
Russian forces are supposed to have
entered and entrenched themselves,
strongly along this line, but even If
they are able to hold the Germans tenn
porarily, it is doubtful if much will be
gained unless the force which already
has CLOSED the Bug south of Wyszkow
is held.
Meanwhile, the fate of the Novo
Georgeievsk, the Vistula fortress north
of Warsaw, which the Russians have
insisted can withstand a four months
siege, is none too sure. Berlin ad-
vices say that another of the ten forts
making up the city's defences has
fallen, which means but seven of them
remain. Novo Georgeievsk has been
held out as a bright spot in the gloomy
situation that surrounds the fall of
Warsaw, for with it still in Russian
hands the Vistula would remain an in
terruped highway for the transporta-
tion of German supplies
The fact in the news from Berlin
that the Germans have gained the
eastern bank of the Vistula near War
saw may indicate that the Russian
troops on this line have been greatly
decreased, large numbers of them
moving eastward over the Petrograd
railway and thus being saved from
German trap.
The German forces in the Argonne
attacked with great vigor and momen-
tarily drove the French back in the
western portion of the forest north of
Fontaine Hoyette. They were driven
from their conquered trenches very
shortly, however, managing to retain
only a listening post A file morte
they were more successful. seizing a
considerable length of trenches, but in
the end being able to hold only thirty
metres
Near Nieuport the Germans tried to
bring down two of the allied hydro
aeroplanes by firing bombs of large
calibre. The artillery silenced the
German batteries. OF the two ma
chimes, one returned under its own
power at Moyens and the other was
towed without damage to the shore.