Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-30
RUSSIAN RESISTANCE
SWEPT AWAY ENTIRELY

LONDON, August 29.-At every point
on the 9oo-mile front stretching from
the Baltic to the Dniester, the Russian
resistance has been swept away, aa. +
cording to claims made oficiallv To.
night in Berlin, and the Cars armies
arc declared to be in danger of a rout.
The Germans have broken through
southeast OF Kovno. an official state
nient says, and are advancing on Wilma.
The Russian armies retreating from
the Brest-Litovsk limo are reported
separated by the Rakatno swamps. en-
aoltng the Germans to mass forces
against either wing, with the chance of
suh1ecting 1t to n disastrous defeat
The Russian front in Eastern Galicia
has been pierced and the Cars forces
are reported to be In hasty retreat on
the fortresses of Doubuo and Loutsk,
having left 10000 prisoners in the hands
of the AustroGerman armies under
General Count Bothma
With Hindenburg throwing heavy
forces forward in the north, and Prince
Leopold. OF Bavaria. and Won Macken-
sen sweeping east along a vast stretch
OF front north and south of Brest-Li-
tovsk, the German and Austrian forces
under Bothma. Won Boehm- Ermolli
Pfanzer and Baltin have now involved
retirement, and are sweeping clear the
last inch of Galicia OF the invaders
Bothma's forces have pushed through
Podjace. pressing toward Zborow: Pu-
halo is moving on Loutsk. one of the
triangle OF fortresses which form the
southern end of what was expected TO
be the third Russian line. Zloczow.
east OF Lemhers, has been taken by
Boehn- Ermoili; Planter and Baltin are
pursuing the Russians through Ruc-
Zacz.
These operations, taken In conjunc-
ton with the Austrian advance north
cast from Kovel are believed to her
aid campaign against Loutsk. Doubno
and Rovno. the three Russian forts
which guard the portals of Southern
Russia.
CAMPAIGN TO MAKE THIRD
RUSSIAN LINE UNTENABLE
The three fortresses are on the south
ern end OF a line which stretches to
Filna. Petrograd comedies that the
latter point cannot be held II Ia now
believed tho campaign comtemplates
armies is broken. and that the Germans
apie' Berlin military experts declare
that the backbone OF the Russian
armies is broken and that the Germans
indefinitely. but express the belief that
they will end their campaign on the
wilma -Rovno line, and dig themselves
IN for the winter. releasing large forces
for other operations.
The belief is expressed in Berlin that
the pursuit of the Russians will not
continue much longer 1t Is settled
'nat IL VIII not stop at the Breot-
ihtoVsk line. as had been expected by
some, but it is considered equally cer-
tain that the German general STAFF has
already selected a line of defense
against renewed Russian Offensive
and that the fortification Of this line
is already Eoing on
Berlin reports that the TANKS ~ tba
russian army retreating from Brest
LitoVsk is :mperiled by large force
ol German cavalry. which has pene-
'rated TO Samary forty miles TO the
eastward and defeated Russian cav
airy detachment. The belief is ex-
pressed that this division. which Is In +
considerable strength, VIII he able to
new its way into the main forces of
the Car and convert their ORDERLY
retreat into disorganized flight. rhe
Frand Duke Nicholas has heen so .uc.
cesst"l IN eNtrtcating his armies from
an the traps set by the Germans 20
iar' however, that confidence ia ex
pressed here that this new menaca
viii he disposed of 39
Prince Leopold OF Bavaria a.
operating In the erea, Bieloyte,a Co..
est. and is reported by Berlin to have II