New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-03
.IVANGOROD ARMY
MAY BE CUT OFF
Berlin Announces Invest
ment of Fortress Is Prac-
tically Complete.
ALLIES NOT AT ODDS
Russian Ambassador Denies
Dissatisfaction with In
action in West.
tBy Cable 70 The Triouns J

LOHuOH, aug e. w dISdH eIlIl
holds. But by how slender a thread
the Kaiser is impatiently kept from
his state entry into the Polish capi-
tai no one here knows.
A veil has fallen over the devel-
opments around the great Vistula
stronghold during the past twenty
four hours, and except for the fact
that the German encircling pincers
have now fastened on Mitau in the
north and progressed beyond Cholm
in southeast Poland the situation
remains obscure.
Confidence in the successful evac-
uation of the great Warsaw salient
and the fortresses Of Novo Georgi-
ewsk and Ivangorod was a bit shak-
en- to-day when from Berlin came
the announcement that General Won
Woyrsch had practically completed
the investment of the latter place.
If the Ivangorod garrison has not
succeeded in escaping, military OBJ
servers fear that with Won Macken-
sen advancing rapidly from Lublin
the Warsaw troops likewise may
not have had sufficient time to COM
plete their withdrawal.
Meanwhile several of Germany's
famous forty-two centimetre guns,
unused since Maubeuge and Ant
werp fell before their onslaught,
are being rushed eastward to aid in
the quick crushing of the Warsaw
defences. According to a dispatch
from Amsterdam the guns passed
through Berlin last week.
Ready for Evacuation.
Warsaw, however, is ready for
evacuation. For days there has
been an exodus of the population.
Factories, government institutions
and hospitals have been moved and
the city has been stripped of every
thing of military value.
That the German Empress will not
accompany Emperor William should he
make a state entry into Warsaw is
indicated by a report from Berlin that
the Empress has returned to Berlin
from East Prussia.
.anfnraA Mffon
the capital Of Courland, and are now
within striking distance Of Riga, the
seat of the Governor General Of the
Baltic provinces, and Russis's greatest
port on the Baltic.
May Cut on Baltic.
With the taking Of Mitau and the
favorable progress of the fighting east
Of Poniewesch, according TO the Berlin
statement, it would seem that COM
munication by rail from Courland and
Kovno eastward has been severed by
the Germans.
With the ports Of Memel, Lbsu and
Windau already in their hands, should
the Germans be successful in their
quest Of Riga they would shut Russia
off entirely from the sea by way of
her southwesternmost governments.
While the situation Immediately be-
fore Warsaw is reported by Berlin as
unchanged, additional gains by the
forces of the Teutonic allies are
claimed by Berlin along the Narew in
49, 7 ~ b. frI la.
OF that front TO the Vistula. before
Ivangorod and in numerous sectors in
the southwest between the Vistuls and
the Bug.
Friction Reports Denied.
Rumors of Russian dissatisfaction
that her allies had not undertaken an
offensive in the west 20 divert part OF
the German pressure were branded as
unfounded to-day both by pronounce
ments in the Douma at Petrograd and
by the Russian Ambassador az London.
All hints Of a separate peace or OF
dissatisfaction with England's policy
were declared TO have been fathered
by German wishes. and Count Benck-
endorff made il plain that, while there
may have been some sentimental popu-
lar feeling in his country for q French
and British diversion, there had been
no criticism from those who under
stood the military situation.
Even the defences of the Narew
River. where Won Hindenburg has been
held inactive for the last week, are re-
ported a. again threatenened in to-
days Official bulletin issued in Berlin.
Besides the occupation OF Mitau and
the storming OF height southeast OF
Kaletnik, the Germans have succeeded
in overcoming the Russian resistance
northwest OF Lomza and bringing the
line at rest on the Narew.
0ficial Statement.
The Official statement given out last
night IN Berlin follows:
After hghYng. Mitau was occupied