New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-27
Invaders Drive Foe Back
Toward Junction of
Narew and Bug.
CITY'S FALL LOOKED
FOR IN TWO WEEKS
Mackensen's Army Fails to
Make Crossing of Lublin'
Cholm Railway to South.

London, July 26.-As Field Marshal
Won Mackensen's sustained effort 10
throw any considerable body Of Austro-
German troops astrde the Lublin-
Cholm Railway has as yet met with no
success. the Germans are now centrlng
their main offensive north Of the War
saw salient. Having crossed the Narew
River along a forty-mile front, they are
driving the Russians toward the Bug
where it joins the Narew.
Warsaw still holds out, but the gen
eral belief is held here that its loss by
the Russians is only matter OF time
Dispatches reaching London tonight
from Petrograd predict that the much
discussed climax to the great struggle
in Poland will come within fortnight
with simultaneous attacks on the city
from the north and south.
Advance from Courland.
In the mean time General Won Bue-
lows troops, driving south from Cour-
land, are thirty-fve miles southeast OF
Shawl, having reached the Poniewesch
Railway junction, linked with the
Vilna-Dvinsk line, which the German
cavalry is attempting to seize, prepara-
tory to cutting the more important
Kovno-Vilna line. The effective Ger
man cavalry in this area IS estimated
at Petrograd at 10000
The statement received to-day from
the German War Office says;
"North of the River Niemen the
army under General Won Buelow has
reached the district of Poswol-Ponlc-
Wit Wherever the enemy has offered
resistance he has been beaten. We
caotured over 1000 prisoners. The
toyns of Poswol and Ponicwitz are
about forty miles TO the east and south
east. respectively, of Shawl, IN the
Russian province of Kovno.
son the Narew front our troops
forced a crossing of the river. FUR
thermore. both above and below Ostro-
lenka our troops are slowly pushing
the enemy back in the direction of the
River Bug. The Russians are offering
obstinate resistance to these advances.
Here also we captured about 1000 Rus
slams and more than forty machine
guns.
Advance in NOvogeorgievsk.
"On the northwest front our troops
are advancing toward the group Of for
tifcations around Novogeorgievsk and
Warsaw
an the southeastern theatre OF the
war. north of Wojslawice and south OF
Cholm. on the River Bug, German
troops in the recent fighting pushed
the enemy still further back. Yester-
dav we captured here II officers, 1,45I
men and II machine guns. Otherwise
the situation west Of the Vistula, and
with the allied Teutonic armies under
General Won Mackensen, shows no
change"
The official communication issued IN
Vienna to day says:
South of Sokal Northern Galicla)
our troops captured a vantage point
strategically important for our bridge
head on the eastern bank Of the Bug.
Eleven hundred prisoners and two ma
chine guns fell into our hands.
"Northward at Grubcchow South
east Poland) the German forces again
gained ground.
"On the other parts of the front
there has been no change"
The "Frankfurter lettings" Vienna
correspondent says the Austro German
forces have captured l31 $50 Russian
prisoners since July IA, besides Al can
non, 141 machine guns and enormous
quantities of military supplies.