The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-28
RUSS FACE DISASTER
GERMANS TO GAIN WARSAW
AND MOST OF POLAND
Win 1000 Mile BATTLE

Nothing Short of Miracle Can Save
Capital of Poland-German Armies
Advancing Towards 1t From Three
Sides-Greatest Struggle in His
tory.
To-day's news indicates the most
momentous war development since
the German army was driven back
from Paris last September. Accord
ing to reports from the German
Headquarters in the field, the Rus
Slams are evacuating Poland, and
will give up the great cities OF
Warsaw, Ivangorod and Lublin
without struggle.
The Kaiser, according to a ST. :
Petersburg dispatch, has declared
to have said he had paralyzed the
Russian army for six months, and
would shake Europe with terror
when he turned on the west.
The Russians claim that the
evacuation Of Poland is being car
ried out in orderly fashion, and
that the front of the army is un-
broken; that Russia is far from
beaten, and is only adding to Ger
many's liability in giving them
territory which it will be difficult
and costly for them to defend.
1t is regarded as likely that the
Grand Duke Nicholas is conducting
an able retreat, but it remains none
the less a fact that such a retreat
indicates a pitiful and impotent
weakness against the Teutonic on
slaught.
To-day Germany apparently is at
the highest point Of success since
the battle Of the Marne; Russia
apparently is q broken nation for
many months, whether the cause
be lack of munitions, lack of Off
GERS, lack Of ability, or what.
The great German offensive in the
east is seriously threatening Russian
| possession Of Warsaw, and its evacu
alton is not far distant, in the opin
ion of many military observers. Botf
on the north and on the south, Teu
tonic pressure is being exerted will
seemingly irresistible force, while II
the centre Gen. Won GallWitz ha:
driven the Russians back on the neal
| defenses of the city.
The Austro-German armies have
turned two pivotal points in theil
great sweep in the east, Ostrolenka
a stronghold on the Narew River
seventy miles northeast Of Warsaw
and Radon, ffty-seven miles soutf
of that town and thirty miles from
lvangorod, another of the great fort
resses which girdle the Polish capi
tai, have fallen.
How close the advance guards o
the Austro-Germans have pressed to
ward Warsaw is indicated by the Rus
sian official statement, which say'
| that the guns of the fortress of Nowt
Georgievsk, nineteen miles northwes
tof the capital, have shelled the head
of the onconing columns.
All along the line from the Balti'
to Sokal, Galicia, the AustroGerman!
are advancing and the Russians al
most everywhere are falling back
| Where the Russians are offering re
sistance, the Germans and Austrian:
assert, they are suffering defeat ant
thousands of prisoners and numerous
guns have been captured.
| London reports: The Austro-Ger
mans continue pounding the Russian
| front and military critics say nothing
but miracle can save Warsaw, tht
Polish capital.
This seems to be the consensus o
| opinion, even among those in Eng
land who heretofore have hoped thu
Russians would turn and deliver
counter-blow, and news Of the evacu
alton of Warsaw, followed by the tri
umphant entry of the Germans anit
such scenes as were enacted a
Przemysl and Lemberg, would come
as no surprise.
The German official statement, be
ginning it's recital at the northern tiI
Of the battle line, records the pro
gress of the German troops to within
about fifty miles of Riga; then, fol
lowing the great battle arc south
| ward, chronicles further successe:
northeast of Warsaw, eliminating II
the capture of Ostrolenka, one Of the
fortresses designed to shield the Pol
ish capital.
The acute peril to Warsaw is &C
centuated by the Russian official com
munication which says that German
columns are within artillery range O;
the fortress of Nowo GeorgieVsk, key
to the capital from the northwest
and only about twenty miles from Il
Immediately southwest of the city
and less than twenty miles away
Blonie has fallen, and farther. soutf
Grojec. German cavalry are astride
the important railway from Radon II
Ivangorod. The Lublin-Cholm rail
way is still in Russian hands, so fal
as is known, but the town of Lublir
either has been captured or is in dan
ger of falling. The Russian com
mander-in-chief has issued, through
the civil governor, an order that in
case of a retreat the male population
Of Lublin is to attach itself to the re-
treating troops.
Berlin reports: German troops oc'
cupied Tukum and captured Windau
(Windau is seaport in Courland on
the Baltic Sea at the mouth Of the
Windau river one hundred miles
northwest of Mitau.)
Between the PISA and the Ekwa
the Russians evacuated position
which had been penetrated at several
points by our troops and are retreat
ing toward the Narew The German
reserve landwehr fighting in this dis
trict of woody and marshy ground,
which is extremely favorable to the
resistance of the enemy, accomplish
ed notable deeds.
"The army of Gen. Won Gallwitz,
advancing further, now is standing
with all its troops on the Narew line
southwest of Ostrolenka and Nowo
Georgievsk (Nowo Georgievsk is a
strong fortress about ten miles north
west of Warsaw at the confluence OF
+ba E-ict11a and the Ruo)