Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-23
IMPORTANT RAILWAY
is SERIOUSLY MENACED
Teutons Believe Capture Of Lublin
and Chelm a Question of
Only Brief Time.
CARS MEN FIGHT FIERCELY
Necessary for Kaiser's Forces to Lit
orally Throw Enemy From Trench.
es-Ivangorod Investment Re
port Puzzles Experta

LONDON, July 23.-Over the
Russian front, from the Baltic as
far as the Bug, the only district
in which the Austrians and Ger
mans are not attempting serious
offensive lies opposite the region
Of East Prussia, which is we'll de-
Tended by the Mazurian Lakes.
North and south of Kovno Ger
man attacks are reported. but the
chief fighting is in progress south
of Ivangorod, Lublin and Chelm,
connected by the railroad line,
which is of such value to the Rus
slams, and south of Sokal, on the
Bug in Galicia near the Russian
border.
A dispatch from Vienna to the
Berlin National Zeitung says the
final attempt of the Russians to
stop the advance of their op-
ponents in the critical bat
tie on the new line southwark
of the Lublin-Chelm railroad
southeast Of Warsaw has ended
in failure. The decisive action in
this campaign is likely to come in
the territory between the Vistula
and the Bug rivers, the Germans
declare.
The Russian southwestern
front IS seriously menaced. ac-
cording to Vienna. The Lublin
and Chelm railroad line running
through Ivangorod is now only
few miles northward of the Teu-
tonic lines, and the capture of
Lublin and Chelm is said to be a
question of only brief time.
Ivangorod Investment.
The report of the investment OF IVAN
gorod in yesterdays communication
from the German war Office puzzles
military experts, who declare 1t is i'm
possible that the great fortress could
have been surrounded completely.
Southwark from Warsaw to the vest
of the Vistula the Germans report a
victory for the Silesian landwehr.
which stormed the Russian positions
and threw back their defenders into
the fortress of Ivangorod. AS the
scene of the Silesian success is fifteen
miles from the fortress it is believed
here the German official reports must
have been translated enormously as
claiming the investment of the fortress
itself. when the outlying protecting
forts were meant.
Lull on Narew Front.
On the Narew front there has been
a lull in the flghting, but the reneYed
activity of the Germans from Kovno to
the Baltic has developed into an i'm
portant engagement, as a result OF
which the Russians have been COM
PEELED to retire.
Interest here in the fate of Warsaw
is undiminished. but the stubborn re-
sistance of the Russians is doing much
to relieve the depression of the Eng
lish. This feeling of relief enables the
public to pay some attention to other
battle fronts.
Difficulties to Be Met.
The correspondent of the Berlin Ma.
tional Zeitung at Tarnow. Galicia.
while reporting that the Austro-Ger-
man forces are advancing steadily.
points out that there are difficulties to
be met. He says the Russians have to
cont end with a lack of ammunition. but
the statement that their morals is
shattered is untrue. On the contrary
they are displaying the greatest brav-
cry and endurance. and only in the
case of contingents without higher Of
fcers do they surrender readily.
Russians Battle Hard.
At Krastonav. thirty-four miles
south of Lublin, there occurred an en-
gagement at close quarters which was
unusually desperate and deadly. The
Russians awaited their attacking op-
ponents and resisted them with the
bayonet. They had assembled strong
reserves. and the Germans and the Aus
trians had to expend the greatest ef-
forts to overcome them. 1t was neces-
sary literally to throw the Russians
from their trenches. The lack of good
roads in Poland presented an especially
unfavorable aspect from the standpoint
of the invaders. Deep sand makes the
even of infantry slow, while
frbn ten to twelve teams of horses
must be utilized to draw heavy guns.
Bitter Rear Guard Actions.
Bitter rear guard conflicts mark the
slow retirement of the Russians in
South Poland They give way only one
step at a time. thus delaying although
not preventing the Austro-Gsrman ad-
vance.
The correspondent says that sthe
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