Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-02
CAR ESCAPES
GERMAN TRAP
Rear Guard Actions on Re-
tirement Causes Huge
Losses to Teutons
RUSSIANS DEFIANT
DEFIANT
RUSSIANS
Kaiser Claims to Have Captured
Many Prisoners and Hundreds ol
Cannon During Past Month

i Petrograd, Aug. 2.-The Russian an
mics falling back from WarsaW are
/ fighting one of the most magnificent
rear guard actions the world has
seen.
| Small forces standing along the
| Narew and west of the Polish capital
/, are determinedly holding up the Ger
\ mans while the main body of Siavs
! continues the retirement eastward.
The taking of Warsaw will only
| slightly relieve the Germans feel
ing of disappointment over their fail
! ure to entrap the Grand Dukes ar
! mics, according to advices to the war
| Office.
When il became evident that the
+! Russians were about to escape the
! trap, General Won Hindenburg sent
| out Il hurry call for re-enforcements
\ from the western battlefront. These
| forces arrived and have been seen III
operation in Poland. according to an
official statement from the war office,
which contained this significant
clause:
"This fact creates favorable con-
ditions for active operations OIL the
part of our allies in, the west. v
So effective is the Russian defense
lust outside the gates of tn" city that
: Military men declared TO-DAY that
Warsaw could never. have been Son
by direct assault.
! The great Austro-German siege
guns and the masscd forces of the
enemy could not have battered their
lway into the capital, they held, ana
the captyre: of Warsaw was only
alade possible by the progress OF the
| Sustro.Germansc along the Lublln-
Cholm line.
[ Sunday, the anniversary OF the out
break of the war between Russia anC
! Germany and the date OH which the
! Kaiser planned triumphal entry IN
to Warsaw. saw the Russians throw
! ing German dctachments back across
| the Narew and successfully With
standing all enemy assaults In the
bend of the Vistula, extending west
20 southeast Of the city,
! Though it is admitted in Petrograd
that sufficient time has not elapsed
TO permit the withdrawal Of the nam
bodv of Russian troops before war
saw to the lines to the east, an ar
of confidence today replaced the feel
ings of doubt over the fate OF tnoSe
armies yesterday.
Newspapers today printed prom
inently the colsing words ol MINIS
ter Of War Polianoffs speech to the
duma, in which: he declared that Rus
sia, as a consequence Of good crops
is prepared to continue the war Tor
several years. =,
Germany must be beaten at all
costs. else all Europe will fall under
the Teuton yoke declared Pollvan-
off. without. losing an instant Oh
| time, we must employ all the facul-
ties of the country. for the develop
iment of the national defense.
! London Aug. 2-The anniversary
Of the outbreak of the war passeo
without the Germans occupying war
saw. which was understood to he part
of their program.
| However, news of this climax to
the Austro- German offensive in the
east, which was begun in the early
days of May, is hourly expected, fos
what little information is allowed tc
leak through is to the effect that the
Russians for several days have beer
withdrawing to the Brest line, teav'
ing small forces to fight rear guar[
actions so that the main armies
might make good their retreat.
These rear guard actions have dc
! veloped at many places into fairl!
large battles, as the Russians, whose
D steadiness has been phenomenal in th'
face of defeat, are offering stubborn
resistance to the German advance
j and delivering powerful counter-at
tacks. For example, they have