Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-06
WARSAW IS SAFE,
IS STODAY'S BELIEF
|NCzAR'S CAPITAL
Attempt to Check Advance of
Teutons Has lust Begun,
Reports Declare.
CHAIN OF RUSSIAN FORTS
HUNDRED MILES LONG
Task Now Undertaken by Germans
Asserted to Be Hardest
of the War.
ADVANTAGE WITH DEFENDERS
ADVANTAGE WITH DEFENDERS
Ground Over Which the Attack
Must Be Made Is Said to Offer
Unusual Diff
culties.

LONDON, July 8, II so PM
Special correspondents i'll Petro-
grad telegraph optimistic predic-
tions concerning a coming Rus
sian campaign for the defense OF
Warsaw, which forms the center
of a vast circle of 100 miles OF
strong fortifcations.
Even the fall OF the fortress of
Ivangorod, according to these cor
respondents, would not mean the
loss of the Polish capital.
Fighting Desperate Battle.
Fighting. described as desperate in
the official Petrograd reports. is raging
between the Vistula and Bug rivers
along the base of triangle of which
Warsaw forms the apex.
The country there is marshy, and it
Is predicted in London that, because of
the character Of the terrain. this cam
paign will be a constant drain on the
German resources. until even victory
will be almost as costly as defeat.
Hardest Task of War.
TeIegraphing from Petrograd. the
correspondent of the Morning Post
says:
1T was only Friday that the Rus
SLAMS began offering real resistance to
the Germans forward movement north
ward from Galicia. The whole area
which Russia will hold as Brobding-
nagian redoubt against the encircling
Germanic forces centers on the War
saw system of Notifications.
THE outer works are of such vast
extent, having a diameter of nearly 100
miles, that the Germans have before
them the hardest task yet met in the
war.
Plan to Bar Civilians.
After Thursday next nobody will be
allowed to enter or leave Warsaw with
out a special pass. Similar measures of
military preparation are being taken at
other important points in this vast area"
The Petrogfad correspondent Of the
Times says:
No apprehension is entertained as to
the fate of Warsaw in the struggle. for
the city bids fair to be protected. Even
IL the Germans SnOuld TedCn lNaNROrOO,
this would not necessarily involve the sur
render of Warsaw.
Waiting Game Justified.
%The Russian waiting game, in fact,
has been justified. The critic Of the
Novoe Vremya correctly explains the
withdrawal as maneuver deliberately
undertaken with the object of accepting
battle under the best conditions for the
Russians.
"IIe adds that on the Nistula front the
ground which offers the RUSSIANS the
greatest advantage is that with Brest-
Litovsk as base. Invangorod on the right
flank and a strong army occupying the
flank and rear positions, in relation to the
right flank Of Gen. yon Boebm-E;molli's
army.
Russians Lose co. 900 Men.
BERLIN. via London. July s.--A dig
patch from Czernowitz, Bukowina, re-
ports that the Russians are continuing
desperate but unsuccessful attacks in
the region between the P-uth and
Dniester rivers and are meeting with
very heavy losses These have amount
ed to 10000 men in the last few days.
Violent artillery engagements RACED
Saturday IN northeastern Bukowina the
Russians retiring, followed by the
Austro- Hungarian troops across the
frontier.