Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-08-11
Germans Now Hold Warsaw.


city this morning, having taken sue
cessiveiy the Blonie lines and the
outer and inner fortresses Of the city
itself, the Russians only fighting in
rear-guard actions to allow their
main army to escape.
While to the Bavarians under
Prince Leopold has fallen the honor
f taking over Warsaw in the name
Of the German Emperor and his con-
sort, who are expected to make a
state entry within a few days, the
real conquerors are Won Hindenburg's
troops, fighting along the Narew
river to the northeast; the Austro-
Germans who crossed the Vistula to
the south Of the city; and the armies
Of the Austrian Archduke Joseph
Ferdinand, and the German Field
Marshal Won Mackensen, advanclus
northward between the Vistula and
Bug rivers.
The Russians are fighting desper-
ately and stubbornly to check the
progress of these four armies and
have had several successes, innicting
heavy losses on their pursuers; but
they are being steadily pressed back,
which made the longer occupation of
the Warsaw Polish salient a hazard
Gus undertaking.
Hard Road to Travel.
Even now, although the steadinesS
hoi
counter-attacks have gained much
valuable time for them, it is prob
lomatical whether the whole Russian
army will reach new positions chosen
or whether, if it should get there, it
will not find those positions turned
by the Austrians, who have crossed
the Bug southeast of the Cholm and
the Germans under Won Schloz and
Won Gallwitz, who have crossed the
Narew.
At the northeastern end Of the line
the Russian communications are fur
ther threatened by Gen. Won Buelow,
advancing toward Dvinsk on the Viii
na-Petrograd railway. Indeed, the
to catch and destroy, the Russian
army. None Of them was sprung, but
one was SO near 10 closing that Grand
Duke Nicholas was forced to evacu-
ate Warsaw, and now is fighting with
all his might to prevent the others
lrrW rN,t'r DI his r.trn.t.
Thus t1' hv ,,omiualy has lccu
aulaessgu.. .pr, although HE Germaus
c)am rnc rat.nr" Of macy prisoners,
lue aggregate IS small when e3m-
pared with the immense forces en-
gagged. In addition the Russian guns
apparently are well on their way to
the rear.
Nothing of Value Left.
From refugees who left Warsaw
some days ago and have arrived at
Moscow, it has been learned that
Warsaw, even at that early date, had
been denuded Of virtually everything
that might be useful to the TeutOns.
Factories had been stripped of their
machinery and all war stores moved
into the interior OF Russia, and the
government Of the city left to the
Polish population.
The Russians also are preparing to
evacuate Riga in the north. The ar
rival of the Germans ten miles south
of that city already has been the
cause Of the civilian population de-
parting.
While expressing the fullest conf
dence in the future, the British mill
tary critics make no attempt to be-
little The achievements of the Teutons
or the effect their success is likely to
have in'the near East and the West.
Since early in May, when they
started their great counter-offensivc
in Western Galicia against the Rus
slams, who were debouching through
the Carpathians on to the plains of
Hungary, the troops Of the Germanic
powers have cleared the Russians out
Of Galicia with the exception Of a
narrow strip Of territory in the South
west have recaptured Przemysl and
Lemberg, taken Lublin, Cholm and
warsaw and are in military occupa-
ton OF virtually The whole Of Poland
What their next move will be is a
matter Of conjecture. Some military
observers believe they will continue
to attack the Russians in the hope of
finally crushing them, a task consid-
cred dfficult by the fact that the