New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-26
GERMANS BREAK
LINE DEFENDING
BREST-LITOySK
Mackensen Pierces Rus
sian Advanced Posi-
tons to the South.
TEUTON INVADERS
TAKE BIELOSTOk
Austrian Cavalry Advances from
Kovel Through Marshes
of the Pripet.

London, Aug. 25.-Pushing past the
dreaded Pripet marshes south of Brest-
Litovsk, the German armies are closing
in on the fortress. Berlin reports that
Won Mackensen has broker through the
Russian advanced positions at Dob
bynka, to the southwest, and Vienna
SAYS that the Austrian cavalry is ad-
vancing on the road from Kovel. occu-
pied yesterday, to Kobrin. on the op-
posite side CT the marshes and east Of
Brest-L itovsk. This movement threat
ems TO flank the Russian line of de-
fence.
- These drives, says Vienna. have
broken the resistance of the Cars
troops fighting to repel the thrust from
the southwest. The Russians have
been driven back to the fortress girdle.
while the defenders of the southeast
positions ere being pursued further
into the marshv district of the Pripet.
1 Only in the north, where the forest Of
Bialowieska aids the defence. are the
Russians able to hold the enemy.
According to "The Times,'s" Petro-
grad correspondent the Russians have
already evacuated Bielostok, but will
continue to hold ground until the bulk
of the armies OF the Grand Duke have
reached their appointed positions TO the
east of Wilma.
GERMAN OFFICIAL.
The official statement issued by Ger
man Army Headquarters says:
Army Group of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg- of the Niemen
River $50 Russians were taken
prisoners during successful engage
, ments in the neighborhood of Blrshi.
The army of General Won Elchhorn
is advancing VIGOROUSLY toward the
east, fighting all the way. Ihls army
captured 1850 Russians and took
several machine guns.
The army of General Won Scholz
reached Berecowka, captured Knyszyn
and crossed the Narew River to the
/ south of Tykocin.
The army of General Won Gallwtz
captured the Narew River crossing
on the Sokolow- Belostok highroad.
Its right wing has reached Orlanka,
after having driven back the enemy.
This army took more than 4,iOO
prisoners. including eighteen officers
and nine machine guns.
Foe Hurled Back in North.
Army Group of Prince Leopold OF
/ Bayaria-Yes the enemy at
! tempted in vain to bring our pursuit
10 standstill. He was attacked and
thrown back into Bialowieska Forest.
/ South of this forest our troops
/ reached the region to the east OF
/ Wierschowicze. We captured more
than 100 prisoners.
Army Group of Field Marshal Won
ackensen-Pursuing the defeated
enemy. this group is approaching me
/ hills on the western BANK OF the
Bosnia, north of Brest-Litoysk: On
the southwestern front OF brest-
Ijtovsk. at Dobbynka, the Austro-
Hungarian and German troops proke
through the advanced positions OF
the fortress yesterday.
On the eastern bank of the Bug,
Northeast of Vladova, parts of the
army of General Won Linsingen are
advancing toward the north, fighting
all the way
Aus KHAN Ofr lNlhb.
The following official statement was
issued to-day at the Austrian war
Office:
The troops Of Archduke Ferdinand
and General Koeyess, together with
our Allies, pushed back the enemy,
fighting constantly, toward Lesna.
The resistance of the Russians,
fighting southwest of Brest-Litovsk,
back to the fortress girdle by the
! division of Field Marshal Won ARR
and German troops.
Northeast of Vladova German
forces are driving the enemy further
into the marshy district. The cavalry,
under General Puhallo, is advancing
on both sides of the road from Kovel
to Kobrin.
Honved hussars stormed forth
fed village on the railway line from
Kovel to Brest-Litovsk.
Between Vladimir olynsky and
the Bessarabian frontier quiet pre-
walls.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL.
The following official statement was
received tonight from the headquarters
of the Russian General Staff:
In the Riga district there has been
no change in the situation. In the
direction of Jacobstadt and Dvinsk
the fighting to the westward con-
tinues on approximately the same
front. In the direction of Wilma the
enemy delivered yesterday only iso-
lated attacks on the front northwest
of Ivje, which we repulsed.
On the middle Niemen our troops
operating on the left bank gradually
are concentrating toward the river
On the front between the Bobr and
the Brest-Litovsk district the enemy
continues to exert the greatest press
ure.
On the sectors in the district south
of Vidimirvolynsky there were I'M
important outpost encounters.
In Galicia. on some sectors of our
front, there were rife firing and iso-
lated artillery duels.