Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-07
Entire Line of Slav FOrtifi- cations Along Vistula
 Swept Away by Germans.
DEVELOPING SCHEME
 SEEMS NEAR SUCCESS
Force of l0,000 SIayS Cut Off from Main Army, and 100000 More Threatened Between Bug and Wis.,
 tuIa Riycrs-LOsses Appalling.

London, Aug G-The entire line of Russian Notifications along the Vistula has been swept away. and while tho bulk of the czar's army is in rapid retreat across Poland, 100,- coo are threatened with envclopment between the Vistula and Bug rivers north and east of Warsaw, and a force estimated at 10000 is cut off within the confines of NOvO Georgeivsk, which has been closely invested
 Riga the sixth city in Russia, and an important Baltic port is about to fall.
 Closely following the capture of Warsaw, the Germans occupied Ivan gorod to the south, which had been dismantled and deserted by the Rus sians, and von Hindenberg's forces in the north broke through the Rus sian front at Novo Georgeivsk, envel- oping the fortress and menacing the great Russian army operating in the small ngular-shaped strip between the Vistula and the Bug.
 The Germans are endeavoring to reach the flank of this army in the
 region of Serock, making hasty
 withdrawal across the Bug impera-
 tive.
 Plight of Slays Desperate.
 Meanwhile, the bulk of the Russian armies is hastily retreating to the
 Brest-Litovsk line, 12G miles to the
 eastward, endeavoring to drag their heavy guns and tons of supplies
 across the vast marshes of central Poland. The world has never wit
 messed such a retreat
 Four German and Austrian armies are on the heels of the Russians. or fighting to cut them off before they
 can reach another base. To the north. there is desperate fighting along the Narew and the Oge rivers. which, Petrograd admits, the Germans have crossed at number of points. closely pursuing the Rus- sians, who are falling back in the direction of Ostrov. There is severd fighting close to the trunk line be- tween Warsaw and Petrograd, which the Germans are endeavOring to cut.
 Great Losses in Running Fight. In the southeast, in a tremendous effort to cut in before Brest-Litovsk
 and surround the Russian armies, Field Marshal von Hindenberg IS en-
 gagged in tremendous running fight.
 with the Slavs retreating to the north of Cholm. He is hurling great forces | into battle and the Russians are re- plying with violent counter attacks. l the losses on both sides being u1- precedented in the history of war | fare.
 Dispatches to London newspapers l tonight from Petrograd put still
 more serious complexion on the situa- | tion of the Russian armies. Forced | from their strongly-fortified lines on
 the Vistula, the whole object of their retreat which is being made under great difficulties of terrain, land which as a matter of course will en- | tail large losses of men and material.
 was to reach prepared lines along | the Bug. KOvnO About to Fall. The dispatches tonight indicate that 1 the fortress of Kovno at the north Of | this line is on the point of capitulat- 1 ing, having been surrounded by the forces of General von BuelOw. The archives of the city and the gold in the banks have all been removed. it 1 is reported, and the civilian popula- tion is in flight, as is that of Riga where numbers estimated at 10000 g
 day are fleeing into the interior of
 Russia.