Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
FOE WITHIN 80 MILES
OF GREAT BALTIC PORT
Coast Is Left Desolate by the Ad-
vancing Germans, According
to London Advices.
BATTLE OF soo-MILE FRONT
Petrograd Admits Cars Forces
Have Been Compelled to Yield
at Certain Points on
the Line.

LONDON, July u, IL: :2S pm.
A new German offensive of
huge proportions, with Riga, a
great Russian seaport and the
seat OF the governor general of
the Baltic provinces, as its OBJ
jective is revealed in the latest
official statements issued at Petro-
grad and Berlin.
Military experts here construe
the offensive to be a vast envelop-
ing movement, in which the Ger
mans are making a herculean eff
fort to destroy the Russian army.
Eighty miles From Riga.
Both the German and Russian com.
munications agree that the German
forces are at the windau river. near
Goldingen. which is only eighty miles
from Riga, the great strategic COM
mercial metropolis in the Gulf Of Riga
and on the upper Baltic.
An Official statement received this
morning from Petrograd adds details
of sanguinary fighting all along the
new line in efforts to hold back the
German advance, which now is being
concentrated on Riga and on Warsaw.
while the Austro-Hungarians are NOV.
ing nortfward from the Dntester river.
Left Trail Of Desolation.
Advices reaching London today say
that the Germans left trail of DESC
lation along the Baltic sea from Memel
to Libau, where the villas, hotels and
casinos are alleged to have been de-
stroyed, about the only exception. it 10
said, being the palace Of Polish
nobleman, whose cousin married an
American woman. The palace is now
being used as a military beadquar-
ters. in which Prince Henry of Prussia
and Field Marshal Won Hindenburg re-
Gently conferred on the new offensive
toward Riga.
Russian lines are holding we'll imme-
diately to the north Of Warsaw. where
the greatest force of the Teutonic move
against the Polish capital is seemingly
being exerted. according to the latest
statement from FelTOSTaQ-
Reports Attacks Repulsed.
Attacks by Important forces" west Of
the River Orzyc have been repulsed with
heavy losses, the Russians claim. and in
sections where gains were made by the
Germans their further advance was ar
rested.
A withdrawal of the Russian forces be-
II,
lines along the Narew in the face Of Gen.
Won Hindenburgs attacks is admitted by
Petrograd Continuation of the German
advance in Couriand alsolis conceded.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's army
that swept through Galicia is giving
signs of renewed activity in pursuance
of the assumed plan of the Teutonic
forces to attack simultaneously all
along the sweeping S00-mile front from
the Baltic to Bessarabia. Cnofhcial re-
ports through Geneva declare that at
the lower end of this line Austrian
troops who crossed the Dniester have
been driven back to the other bank.
where their retreat is being turned into
rout.
Occupy Austrian Trenches.
GENEVA, Switzerland. July 16. via
Paris delayed by censor).-The Trib-
une prints the following dispatch from
its correspondent at the front:
The Austro- Hungarian forces which
attempted to dislodge the Russians
from positions along the Vistula river
have been repulsed with heavy loss.
The Russians, attacking in turn, oc-
cupied a mile of the Austrian trenches.
"Fresh Russian batteries which have
arrived and which have been posted on
the Sereth river have begun to bonn
bard the passage across the Dniester
river, south of Zalescscyky. obliging
the Austrians to recross the river
Their retreat is being converted into
a rout by Russian bayonet attacks.
East of Horodenka the Austrians oc-
cupying the left bank of the Dniester
have been dislodged after a fierce
hand struggle.
"On the Stripa river the Russians
have succeeded in temporarily arrest
ing the Austrian offensive"