The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-05
BavaIian Troops under Prince
Leopold Enter the City
This Morning.
EgDs GREAT 3 {. OFFENSIVE !; s,
Oificiaf Announcement of City's
CapituIation Made in
Berlin.

Capitulation Made in
Berlin.
ssyAAssoesArgp eessE
BERLIN, by wireless to Tuckertoh.
N y . Aug. 5-Warsaw was taken
this morning, by German troops, &C
cordinx to Official announcement
made at German army headquarters
Yesterday and last night Bayarian
fnoons under command Of Prince
Leopold broke through the forts OF
y the out and inner lines of Che city 9
defenses. where the rearguard OF the
Russian troops made q tenacious re-
Continuing the report from head
quarters says;
.'The German armies under GeneT-
al Won Scholz and General Won Call
witz advanced IN the direction OF the
road between Iona, 0strov ana
II Nyszkov and fought q number OF VI. VI,
Dleut engagements. The brave ana
desperate resistance Of the Russians
ostrov and Rozan was without sue
cess. e
.sTwentystwo Russian officers anee
4 $50 soldiers were taken prisoner.
The Germans also captured seventees7
machine guns.
Another S&&uSS10n fOS1GS4Ss -5ss
german cavalry yesterday and the
dav before defeated in CourIand de-
y tachments Of * Russian cavalry az az
points near Genatze. Birsm and
nniskszhly. q total of 2,225 RusstaE
prisoners being taken.
saTha situation near and to the
north Of Ivangorod remains un-
Ell Th &c cam paign 1s being continues
bstWeen the upper Eistula4 and the
y Nfsai$ Il ssfsssT 81 tas
1 ~ II n the vosges there have been
new enga gements near the Lingeko IS
The fall OF Warsaw marks the eus-
imitation OF the greatest sustained
fansive movement Of the Europeasr
War:
Thrice before T4utonic armies
have knocked at it's gates, only to
Sc denied by the strength of It's De
lenses and the resistance OF .ne
forces holding it Apparently I'M
pregnable In the face OF direct az
tack. 1t was compelled to capitulat e
before the sweep of vast movement
\ which threatened to encircle the cap
ital and with IL the Russian armies
engaged In the campaign OF Whlch ~
was the storm center.
From the north, northwest. west.
X south and southeast the Austro-Gef-
man forces have been pressing upon
tha Polish capital in their combined
drive ia force5the Russians out Of Po-
land and If possible to break their
offensive power for an indefinite per-
iod by administering a decisive de-
feat all along the line. The move
ment may be said to have had its IN
ceptton In May when the great Ieu-
tonic march through Galicia began.
10 get at the Russian armies In Po-
land from the southeast it first was
necessary to clear Galicia or the
Greater part OF 1t of the troops OF
that nation.
Determined Drive
How successfully this was accom-
plished is familiar history. Field
Marshal Won Mackensen's campaign N
its first important stage culmin ated
when late in June l Len was e.
taken and the Russians were driven
over the Galician border. Then early
ii Iuy the Teutonic forces coming
IN from the south halted while prep
arations were made for the next stage
of the campaign. .
Signs OF the form this was 70 take
were soon apparent. Great armies
had been assembled to the norm ana
4 this early in June began pressing
down upon the Russians from that d.
raction. "A vigorous offensive was
opened in the Baltic provinces, the
Teutonic troops attacked from point
to point along the East Prussian bor-
der and with Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg directing the general oper-
atoms along this section OF the light
ing front; q determined drive began
In the Przasnysz region.
Infltct Serious Blows.
simultaneously the Tenton1c
armies In the South showed re-
awakening activity. Field Marsha4
Won Mackensen resumed his advances.
his German forces working with tn
Austrians to Inlet smashing blows
upon the Russians from this d4rec-
Il ton. Step by step the Austro-G Ger
man hosts pounded their way toward
the city from North and South, while
a on the West activities along the line
OF entrenchments that had 50 long
held OF tho Germans in that section
4 were resumed. =
Before the power OF the Teutona
engaged In this encfrcling movement
the armies OF Grand Duke Nicholas
began to fall back. Przasnysz to the
north Of Warsaw was occupied ana
the German armies swept ON. BY
July 10 they had forced the Russians
back to the line OF the Narew rtveS
and pushed teir way to within
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