The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-25
WON'T EVACUATE
CITY, RUSS vow
Reported Plan to Quit War
saw Ridiculed in
Petrograd.
BATTLE TEN DAYS LONG
German Bombardment of the Lublin-
Cholm Railroad Described by
Military Expert.
BATTLE TEN DAYS LONG
BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.

specisl Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
| Petrograd, July 24.-Althoush the AUS
tro German forces now engaged in their
supreme effort TO take Warsaw and en-
ve.ope the Russian center, the troops
of Grand Duke Nicholas have checked
the advance of the Teutonic allies.
Violent fighting is in progress between
! the Bug and Vistula rivers. in Southern
| Poland. where the Russians were hard
| pressed. The Germans were able to gain
some ground, but fierce counter-attacks
were launched by the Russian forces.
which cost the enemy heavily.
With the shortening of the Russian
line and the withdrawal to points closer
to the bases of supplies. the Russian re-
sistance has stiffened, especially south
Of Warsaw. where the German army of
Field Marshal Won Mackensen is at
lacking Ivangorod.
Battle for Ten Days.
The furious three-front battle con-
| tinues with the greatest violence. On
Thursday the Germans smashed the wire
entanglements around GniewosZew, six
miles southwest of Ivangorod. but are
reported to have been hurled back with
heavy losses. On the previous day the
Germans had suffered heavily in as
saults on the Piaski, Voislavitze and
Grubechow positions. They We're success
full In driving the Russians from a num-
Der of trenches. but the Muscovite forces
rallied and in counter-attacks inflicted
severe losses upon the Germanic troops
The battle for the Lublin- Cholm
railway in Southern Poland has now
ragged for ten days The Germans,
with superhuman eXertions, moved a
great quantity of heavy artillery
through the swamps and marshes to
the front and this is being used to
lombard the railway line in order to
prevent the shipment of supplies and
the movement of troops.
Won't Evacuate Warsaw.
Big Austrian guns are pouring a
rain of shells upon the forts of Ivan
gorod. Aerial scouts of the Russian
troops are having a difficult time To-
eating the Teutonic batteries because
of a new type of high-angle guns
which the Austrians are using and
which have proved much more effect
i've than the old style of anti-aircraft
weapon.
Reports that the Russians would
evacuate Warsaw in order to save the
army which is opposing the forces of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg were
rIdiculed today The Russians are
confident that the fortresses of Novo
Georgievsk and Ivangorod can hold
out until developments take a more
favorable turn for the Russians
All indications point to the fact that
il probably will be a week before
there is any decided turn in the situa-
ton in Poland, although the Russians
hope for developments in Galicia at
an earlier date.
In the sector of Sokal, the army of
Gen. Boehm -Ermolli has engaged the
Russians and is trying to cut through
the Russian line. Trench fighting is in
progress there.
Heavy losses have been caused
among the German and Austrian engi-
neers who were trying to throw
bridges across the Bug. The Russian
artillerymen got the exact range ana
attempts to construct pontoons ended
in failure.