The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-31


IL given by a staff correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News today under
a Stockholm date. He says
After obtaining at the nghting
front authentic news of the military
plans now being carried out In and
around Warsaw. / have hurried TO
Stockholm. as permission TO cable the
news was denied by the censor in
Warsaw and Petrograd.
For some days the Russians have
been fightng a tenacious rear guard
action about Warsaw, while the evac-
uation of that city was in progress.
The general staff Is persuaded that
the Warsaw triangle Is no longer
tenable. although the Germans are
battling with a great deal less deter
mination that they did during the long
advance from Lemberg. This rela
tive relaxation in the ferceness of
the German attacks leads me to be-
lieve it was not wholly impossible that
the Germans after all might have
found their Undertaking just beyond
1 their ehhirg powers. This undoubted-
! ly would have been the case but for
/ the insupportahle demand for NUM-
lions in vast quantities entailed upon
{ the Russians by the long line they
have been holding. The people ae-
cent the situation with absolute calm
Grand Duke Nicholas armies will
save Themselves whatever happens
just as the French and British intend
ed. II necessary, to retire beyond Paris
Personally, ] can see nothing but ulti-
mate disaster for the Germans in their
colossal operations against the ever
Welding. but ver-pressing hosts of the
Car
American CoBsui Remains.
Warsaw ts isolated from all but
military communication. a week ago
today a train arrived in Moscow car
rying the British. French Belgian and
Serbian consuls and consular archives
| The American consul. fernando T9e
Soto. remained In Warsaw. having laid
in big stock OF provisions. with the
intention of sticking TO his post On
the train were also the British Angli-
can chaplain and the last remnant of
the British colony. some riding on cat
tie truck The refugees included most
of the high officials of the law courts,
with their archleves and s15,000.00D of
fcourt- funtfs: >-s-.~
The journey from Warsaw 10 Mos
COW occupied three days as II was
around by way of Bialystok and wilma,
because the direct route via Brest was
choked with troop trains
Thursday evening, July IS, the Rus
sian aulhbEtLlGS announced LnaI INe
eitys official evacuation would begin
on tho following Sunday. AS mat
ter of fact 1t began Immediately. Po-
lice visited every house and told the
. 'strooss.' or porter, 70 try TO induce
the inhabitants IN his building to leave
at once for Russia (as distinguished
from Poland Free transport on the
railroad to any destination IN Russia
and grants OF money We're promised
when needed Unlike the partial evac-
uation of last December every effort
was put forth to induce citizens TO
leave Warsaw.
CitS's Homes Broken Up.
Empty freight cara were quietly
aecumula ted on the siding until thou
sands we're available During Friday,
Saturday and Sunday trains OF refu-
gees were dispatched eastward. the
cars being occupied by fleeing men.
women and children as closely packed
as possible While $4,000 citizens, In
GLIDING nearly half of Warsaw's
Ghetto. thus departed eastward near
" another 100000 of peasants came
troops into the Polish metropolis from
the neiEhboring districts. Practically
the entire population OF tho country
on the north, south and west came
in cesseless procession day and night.
the tired dust -whitened peasant fami-
Hes with their cattle and portable
goods thronging the roads converging
on Warsaw. In the city. itself literally
tens of thousands OF homes were
broken up instantly. I know OF four
cs SEES Of men worth more than $1,000
ono last month who are now nearly
penniiess
"Simulta neousiy with the evacuation
all property likely to be useful TO the
enemy, especially metal and machinery,
was removed or destroyed, Factories
were fewerashlY stripped and the own
ers of the plants were granted free
transportation 10 the eastward for
what they could save Day and night
che heard the periodical roar on a
dynamlted factory plant that was en-
bedded In concrete or was too cumber-
some to dismantie and transport Every
fragment Of this dynamited metal was
taken eastward on the railway.
Newspapers Vaiedfctory.
The newspapers OF Warsaw made
their last appearance with the issues
announcing the evacuation. Then the
linotype raachines were rooted up
from the floors and carted away
Police visited every printing establish
Enenfs and every newspaper once.