Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-15
RUSSIANS MAY YIELD
SECOND DEFENSE LINE
Indications Now Are That They Will
BE Forced to Retire From
Bug Front.
Many GERMAN VICTORIES
Petrograd Drive Is Secuted, and Mill
tary Experts Believe Invaders VIII
Dig Themselves In and Release
Vast Force for Other Operations.

| Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch. ]
LONDON, August 14-Semoihcial
advices tonight Indicate that the Rus
slams have given up hope of holding
their second line of Notifications. and
thst the Bug front Will be given up.
Bielostok. the vital railway junction
between Grodno and Hest -Litovsl<. is
| reported being evacuated before the
advance Of German army from Lom-
"a. Bielostok Is forty-fve miles east
OF Lomza on the Warsaw-P etrograd
hallway. and is the point from which
branch line runs to Brest -Litovsk.
with the report that Bielostok is
being evacuated comes the news that
the Germans nave occupied ostrolenka,
the last RUSSIAN fortified position on
the Narew, and have complete control
OF the entire Narew front. The Rus
SLAMS retreating from Ostrolenka are
IN perilous position. Their natural
line or retreat is cut off by German
army at Malkin, railway junction
due south of Ostrolcnka, and their re-
treat on Rielostok is menaced by the
Germans operating from Lomza.
me German campaign I'm Poland is
gaining such momentum that n very
few days should see an attack on
Brest-Litovsk. Teutons advancing
from Warsaw have pressed their ad-
vance beyond Siedlcc, on the road to
Brest-Litovsk. and Berlin tonight re-
ports that Won Mackensen has appar-
emily broken the Russian opposition in
the south, Is within thirty miles OF
Brest-Litovsk, and Is trying TO cut in
before tho Russian armies, which are
being chased from the West.
The Germans, II Is believed here.
are massing their main forces for
tremendous drive on the Russian CEN
ter and the continuance OF the en-
vloping movement In the North.
GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS
AT EVERY POINT on LINE
The Germans claim successes at every
point OF their line from Riga. on the
Baltic to Vladova, on the Bug south
or Brest-Litovsk. Petrograd does not
concede this. reporting that the Ger
mans have been stopped between Pinic-
wesch and Dvinsk, and that a wedge
| hiss been driven between the German
armies operating in the Dvinsk and
Nilkomtr sections which menaces the
WIKI onir army. Against this. however,
are semi official reports that Riga is
on the point of capitulation and that
, koNno can hold out only short time.
Berlin officially announces the capture
OF the fortified forest OF Domino Kanka.
before Kovno. The German siege guns
are keeping up ccaseless battering Of
thu strorghold's inner works.
The fall of Kovno would carry with
il the loss OF wilma and Dvinsk. and the
shutting off of supplies via the Pctro-
grad railway, the vital Russian artery
In the north
The speed with which devclopme 9
have come during the last few days in
dictates to military experts that the
eastern campaign is nearing close.
The greater portion of the Cars army
will escape the German wise, according
10 the best opinion here, but the Ger
mans will be able to dig themselves in
along the comparatively short front Of
the Bug and release hundreds of thou
sands Of men for use in the Balkans
and the west.
1t is not believed the Germans will
attempt to move farther into Russia
than tho Bug lines and the reported
plan for a drive on Pctrograd is scout
cd. The general opinion is that the
Balkans Will be the next big scene OF
operations. with The Austro Germans
cndeavoriuG to hcw n path to Constan-
tinople and relieve the Turks before
the allies can force the Darda ncllcs.