Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-03
PUSHING EFFORTS TO CUT
RUSSIAN COMMUNICATIONS
Heavy Forces Attacking Road Link
ing Warsaw-Petrograd Line
With 0strolenka.
FIGHTING NORTH OF LUBLIN
Berlin Reports the Enemy as Making
Determined Stand at Great
Bend of the
Vistula.

LIN LIN, august 5, II As
a.m.-The armies of Germany
and Austria-Hungary are being
held by the Russians to the west
of Warsaw, but they are making
progress elsewhere on the eastern
front, according to the official
statements emanating from Berlin
and Vienna, their most deter
mined attack evidently being that
directed against Wyszkow,
town thirty-fve miles northeast
of Warsaw.
Pursuing their policy of cut
ting the communications of Grand
Duke Nicholas, heavy German
forces are attacking the railroad
linking the main Warsaw-Petro-
grad line with Ostrolenka.
Life in Warsaw Calmer.
The latest dispatch direct from War
saw coming from a correspondent of
the Associated Press, and dated July
81, shows that conditions in the
threatened Polish capital are much
better than were Indicated in the latest
direct dispatches to the London news
papers which were sent July 20.
The later information of The Asso-
ciated Press states that the people are
in their homes and that the life of the
capital is assuming a normal aspect,
although the official esta bl:shments
have made all preparations for the ex-
pected evacuation, the French and Bel
gian consulates being placed in the
hands of the American consul
Germans Occupy Mitau.
BERLIN. August 2, via London, Au-
gust 3.-Mitau. the capital of the Rus
sian province of Courland. twenty-five
miles southwest of Riga. has been oc-
cupied by German troops, according to
the official statement issued by the
German army headquarters staff.
Eugen Lennhoff, correspondent of the
Zeitung Am Mittag, telegraphed as fol-
lows from Austrian headquarters, un-
der date OF August 1:
Heavy Fighting Resumed.
Heavy fighting has been resumed to
the north of Lublin. There and on the
front, in the region of the great bend of
the vistula, the Russians are trying to
check the energetic advance of the Aus
N fortified
positions, obviously aiming TO meet
the danger threatening Ivangorod from
the south Their resistance is stronger
than further to the east, between the
Viepr. and the Bug, where the retreat
continued Saturday.
The German-Austrian front in this
section is everywhere in steady for
ward movement. Wherever the enemy
tries to hold points of support he is
driven back. The Russians have now
a abandoned their efforts to break the
Austro-German lines farther up the
Bug in Galicia after weeks of heavy
losses and diminutive success.
Inhabitants Put to Work.
PETROGRAD, August ,. via London,
August 3-Refugees from Windau. on
the Baltic, who have arrived at Riga
relate that the first act of the Germans
in taking possession of Windau was to
impose a levy of $4,000 rubles (s25,0O0),
to be worked out by the inhabitants of
the city on the roads and bridges and
on their farms.
Windau is in Courland, 100 miles
northwest of Mitau. Agricultural ma
chinery was provided by the Germans,
and the local farmers were ordered to
proceed with their harvesting. They
were told to bring in their grain to
designated places, and that the pro-
ducer of this grain would be permit
ted to retain fifth. the remainder
going to Germany.
War Talk Forbidden.
The German troops have been for
hidden, these refugees continue. to dis
cuss the war with the people of VIM
iau.
The inhabitants of the entire VIM
dau community have been enrolled
and at the same time warned that if
any man disappeared this would be the
signal for the destruction of the estate
On which he worked.
The Germans are said to be showing
little respect for the Lettish pastors.
many of whose homes have been
ooted.