Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-27
Important FortreSSes Of Grod-
no and 0Iita Expected TO
Be Abandoned by Russian
Armies.
FORESTS AND MARSHES
SCENE OF NEXT STRUGGLE
War 10 Western Zone Is Fea-
tured by Activities Of Air
men, No Further Reports
From 0ardaneIIeS,

.at MOANING JOURNAL ueterAl taAsgn wtNsl
London, Aug DO U0:lO D. N.Y.
Rreat.Litovsk, the main Russian for
.ress and concentration center for the
Bug river line Of defenses. was ocou.
pied hy the Austro-Germans today.
While the Russians offered stout re-
sistanco 60 the invader during their
approach To the fortress. Il is appar-
ent that they ala not attempt to de-
fend Brest-Litovsk itself. but evacu-
oted It as they ala Ossowct7. IN COM
tormity with their intention indicated
In the dispatches from Petrograd yes
terday to take up new positions far,
ther east
Grodno and Ollta to Fan.
The Germans are now In possession
of the whole line OF railway from
chelm TO Babstok. The Russians
having already evacuated the latter
city the lesser fortrosses OF Grodno
land ollta are now the only strongly
defended positions remaining in the
hands of the Russians Both these
are being approached BY the Germans
and probably will be given up when
they have fulfilled their purpose OF
/ facilitating the retreat OF the RUS
sian armies
Rctreat Continues Successful.
The Russians have not yet entered
the vast nielovie2h forest which ex-
tends thirty miles north aud south and
has width Of from seventeen to thr
iy. miles. The forest Is famous
hunting center South OF Il are the
pripot marshes which protect the
Russian left, ana with plenty Of roads
and three or four railroad lines, It is
said here than Grand Duke Nicholas
viii make good his retirement II
! Grodno and wilma can hold out long
enough.
Even II they should fall military
observers say, the grand duke would
be well on his way to new positions
! before the Germans could reach his
flank There IS again talk OF RUS
sian preparations for a stand, but no
indication as yet aa to where this at
tempt is TO be made.
Aircraft Again Active
Aircraft again have broken the mos
notony of tho western wnrfare sixty
two French ueroplanes flew over the
/ Dellingen Iron works near Saarlouis.
/ Rhenish Prussia, dropping 1870 bombs,
while British aviator Is reported
successfully to have dropped a bomb
on and destroyed o. German subma-
rine Off Oatend The German report
lsays that -four OF the French machines
lin the attack near 5aarlouis were
brought down. one of them. however.
failing behind the French lines
Catch German Submarines.
The admiralty report OF sinking the
German submarine significantly stated
that Il has not been the practice of
/ the admiralty 10 publish accounts re-
! Igurdng the losses Of German suhma-
Irlnes Important though they have
/ Ibccn." In cases where the Germans
had no other source OF information as
lto the time and place at which these
LOSSES occurred II has been report
ed for months that large number Of
IGcrman submarines, yarionsly stated
lat from twenty to forty, have been
caught by the British navy but to-
days statement Is the only official
admission that there were others than
those previously announced by the
admiralty as having been destroyed.
Minor ltnllnn successes.
[ ffat. .t,lt4
successes on all their fronts, but these
are consistently denied by Austria.
| Of the operations on the Gallpoli PEE
nnsua, which are now so important
to the cause Of the allies, there is no
further news.
Wounded men who have arrived IN
Alexandria tell Of how nearly the
tulies came to gaining a great success
lin one of their attacks An Austral-
lion officer declared that if the allied
forces had had two more hours OF
darkness they would have covered six
hundred yards Of ground which sep
lnrated them from The Sari Bahr hill.
igeneraliy known asiHill 97t. Once this
his was In the allies hands, the off
|cor declared, Turkish communication
would have been cut and il was for
lthe possession Of this hill that the
dominion troops fought so brayely bur
i futlley
Except for the postponement Of the
statement of the Greek premier, NJ.
INcnizclos. on the future policy OF
lGreece there rs nothing now in the
/ Balkan situation