Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-23
TEUTONS RUSH
FOR RAILROAD
NEAR WARSAW
Only Question of Time
When Lublin and Chelm
Will Fall.
FORM IMPORTANT LINKS
LEADING ON TO CAPITAL
CannOnading Heard in City,
Which Faces Almost Ger
tain Capture.
lVANGoROD STRONGHOLD
INVESTED BY DEFENDERS
Won Hindenburg Reported to Be
Sacrificing Heavy Losses
of Men.

With the Teutonic forces tightening
their grip around Warsaw, the efforts
of the drive to wrest the railroad run
ming through Ivangorod, Lublin and
Chelm from the Russians hold the
center OF interest. The fall of Lublin
and Chelm is looked for by Berlin at
any time. The German reports an
nounce the failure of the czars forces
to stop the drive of the invaders
southeast of Warsaw.
The grand dukes army to the north
Of Warsaw is holding Won Hinden-
burgs army. according to Petrograd
claims.
London military experts, who seem
TO be reconciled to the fact that the
fall of Warsaw Is inevitable. hold that
the main fighting will occur in the
territory betN cen the Vistula and Bug
rivers
Unconhrned rumors have reached
Berlin that most of the Russian
armies have already evacuated War
saw.
Fighting along the lines In France
was in progress at several points
during last night, but there were no
decisive actions. cThe Germans tried
to win back some of the ground y
had lost on the heights near Met
zenal, but although they penetrated
the French lines at one point they
We're driven out by a counter attack,
the Paris statement says.
The new American note on sub
marine warfare was delivered by
Ambassador Gerard to the German
foreign Office this afternoon.
Declaration of war between Italy
and Turkey is expected momentarily.
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July % (via London, 12:15
p. m).-A dispatch from Vienna to
the National Ieitung says the final
attempt of the Russians to stop the
advance of their opponents in the
critical battle on the new line south
ward 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 Russian southwestern front is
seriously menaced, the dispatch adds.
The railroad line running through
lvangorod, Lubln and Chelm is now
only few miles northward of the
Teutonic lines, and the capture of
Lublin and Chelm is SAID to be a
question of only brief time.
The correspondent of the National
Zeitung at Tarnow, Galicia while re-
porting that the Austro- German
forces are advancing steadily, points
out that there are difficulties to be
met. lie says the Russians have to
contend with a lack of ammunition,
but the statement that their morale
is shattered is untrue on the con-
trary, they are displaying the great
est bravery and endurance and only
IN the case of contingents without
higher officers do. they surrender
readily
At Krasnostav, thirty-four miles
south of Lublin, there occurred an
engagement at close quarters which
was unusually desperate and deadly
The Russians awaited their attacking
opponents and resisted them with tho
bayonet. They had assembled strong
reserves, and the Germans and Aus
TRANS had to eXpend the greatest eff
forts to overcome them. 1t was nee
essarv literally to throw the Russians
from their trenches.
The lack of good roads in Poland
presents an especially unfavorable
aspect from the standpoint of the in
vad@s. Deep sand makes the move
ments even of infantry slow, while
from ten TO twelve teams of horses
must be utilized 10 drew heavy guns.
Bitter rear guard conflicts mark
the slow retirement of the Russians
in South Poland. They give way only
one step at time, thus delaying, al
OH fftapr
German advance.
The correspondent says that the
achievements of the Russians in view
Of their lack of ammunition are re-
markabe.
BY the United Press.
PETROGRAD, July 23-The great
battle for Warsaw has reached its
decisive stages. South of the Vistula
the Russians have Withdrawn to their
strongly fortified outer defenses. ex
tending from Novo Georg vski to
Ivangorod, and are checking the
Austro-German advance North Of
the river the right arm of the Rus
sian army is holding Won HindenbiIrg
at the Narew river and infiictlng
severe losses by sudden jabs against
the German line.
The dull roar of the fighting thir-
teen miles west of Warsaw is plainly
audible in the streets of the Polish
capital. Scattered bands of German
troops have even broken through to
within less than ten miles of the
heart of the city, only to be
slaughtered But the belief still per-
sists here that Warsaw may vet be
saved from the enemy.
Despite a terrific bombardment, the
Germans have been unable to break
down or break through the outer
works of Warsaw lying west of the
city near Blonie. For forty eight
hours an avalanche of explosive
shells has been crashing against the
Russian redoubts. perfected during
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