Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
ALL THOUGHTS OF PEACE
DENIED AT PETROGRAD
As Long as Teuton Is on Cars Soil
Conflict Will
Go On.
NEW FRONT IS ESTABLISHED
Russians Use Latest Methods Known
to Military Engineers and Will
dig In'-Petrograd
Believed Safe.

LONDON. August oS. $50
pm.-Teutonic pressure against
the Russians in eastern Galicia
has resulted in the piercing OF the
Russian lines along the Zlota
Lipa river. it was officially an
nounced today by German army
headquarters.
1t was also announced that the
town OF Narew. about twenty
miles southeast OF Bialystok, had
been occupied by the Germans.
The Russians who were de-
feated at Brest Litovsk are re-
treating on both sides OF the rail-
way to AIinsk. according to an
official statement issued at the
Austrian war Office.
AS the Russian armies continue
to retreat the foreign and war
ministries at Petrograd deny Wig
orously that their government
has any thought OF making a
separate peace with the central
powers. Special dispatches from
Petrograd state that the Russians
are on the point OF digging them
selves in.
Military writers at the Russian
capital are OF the opinion that the
German turning movement in
Courland is not likely to threaten
Petrograd seriously this autumn.
as Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
apparently has made no progress
in his efforts, to secure control OF
the Baltic coast. The latest news
from that region. however, indi-
Gates that Germany has not given
up the plan for naval cooperation
toward this end. Berlin reports
that German warships bombarded
at two points Dago Island, which
commands the entrance to the
Gulf Of Finland.
The Russian foreign minister,
NJ. Sazonoff, declares emphati-
cally that there is no disagree
ment among the allied command
ers, and that while German SOL
dier remains on Russian soil there
can be no peace.
Russians Fortify New Front.
The intimation that the Russians
have fortified another front, pending
an opportunity for a renewed offen-
sive, has received confirmation. 1t is
stated that the new line is being
strengthened by all the latest methods
known to military engineers.
The Russian armies still are intact,
with virtually all their guns and pros
poets of more plentiful supply OF
ammunition. For this reason military
writers here are of the opinion that
Grand Duke Nicholas now should be
| able to make a stand, as the Austro-
German losses must have been very
heavy, especially during the three
weeks which intervened between the
fall of Warsaw and the occupation of
Brest-Litovsk.
Ready for Occupation.
The Russians new fortified line of
defense is now ready for occupation.
says dispatch from the Petrograd
correspondent of the Daily Mail.
The message continues: The war Of
fee, in discussing the Russian retreat.
asserts that everywhere 1t has been con-
Quoted exactly in accordance with the
Russian staffs plan without pressure from
the Germans, without haste and without
serious loss. Rearguard actions and oc-
casional sudden bursts OF Russian Of
fensive have served to guide the German
advance along channels and according to
a time table dictated by the Russian staff.
"Orders have been issued calling about
3, 3,O0O, 900 more men to the colorS for train
ing
Petrograd Believed Safe.
Weighing the likelihood of German
advance on Petrograd, the Petrograd
Reich points out that the Russian retire.
ment covers the approaches to the capital.
and that it is extremely doubtful whether
the Germans, without undispYfed posses
sion of the Baltic sea, and particularly Of
the Gulf of Riga, could undertake the
risks attaching to operations against
Petrograd this autumn.
Moreover. on the whole front from
the Dvina to the upper Bobr, it is
noted, the Germans have only two ar
mies-that of Gen. Won Buelow In Cour-
land and that of Gen. Won Eichhorn on
the Niemen river.
Brest-Litovsk Occupation.
A Russian official statment concern
ing the Austro-German occupation OF
Brest-Litovsk was given out tonight
as follows:
General headquarters declares that
the German report that Brest-Atevsk
fell after an assault by Austro-Ger-