The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
Fighting GOES ON
EASTERN OPERATIONS INDI=
CATE NO HOLDING Up
PRAGA And LONZA FALL

PRAGA And LONZA FALL
Petrograd Reports Repulse Of Ger
man Troops Operating Around
Riga, But Kovno is Facing Imme-
diate Attacks-German Armies in
Poland Continue to Gain Ground.
London, Wednesday: There is no
indication that the Germans have
withdrawn or are preparing to with
draw any considerable portion u
their forces from the eastern front.
The offensive which led to the fall
OF Warsaw has not been relaxed and
the position Of the retiring Russians
is still perilous.
Partial dismantling OF Wilma pre-
paratory to evacuation as reported
from Petrograd, is somewhat puzzling
to British commentators, inasmuch as
the Russians assert they have repuls-
ed the German attacks around the
fortress Of Kovno, which Is sixty
miles northwest of Wilma.
Except il the region OF Riga,
where the Germans evidently have
been checked, the Germans and Aus
>trians still move forward. Their pro-
gress is not unhindered, however, for
the Buscovites continue to fight varl-
Gus rear guard battles.
Lomza, the Russian stronghold on
the Narew, has been captured, the
fortress of Kovno is threatened, and
Wilma, 225 miles northeast Of War
saw, is being evacuated by the civil
ian population.
The Teutonic drive eastward and
southeastward to the north Of War
saw, directly east Of that city and to
the south on the east, bank of the
yistula, still is in progress, while in
the region between the Vistula and
the Bug and along the Vieprz, the
Russians continue to fall back before
the oncoming Teutonic allies.
Starting in northwest Russia,
where the fortress of .koyno is close
IL pressed, down through Poland to
point below Warsaw and thence
eastward across the Vistula and
northeastward between the. Vistula
: and the Bug, the Germans and Aus
trians, according to Berlin and Wen
ma, are drawing more closely togeth-
er the lines which threaten to clear
Poland entirely OF the Russian
armies.
Field Marshal Won Hindenberg's
troops north and northeast Of War
saw are pressing steadily east and
southeast and ring Of besiegers has
been formed around the fortress OF
NoTogeofgievsk, the last stronghold
on the Vistula line remaining in Rus
sian hands; Praga, the eastern sub
urb Of Warsaw, on which the Musco-
rites fell back when they evacuated
the Polish capital, has been captur-
sed; the railroad from Warsaw to
Lablin has been crossed between
Iyangorod and Garwolin, evidently
with the idea Of moving on to Lukow.
Farther eastward and southeast
ward between the Vistula and Bug
and along the Vieprz the. Russians
are still falling back, but at some
: points, especially between the Viepr2
and the Bug, they continue their re-
3 sistance. -
The bag of prisoners at Warsaw
was small, Berlin declaring that only
& few thousand were taken. Nor has
the number of captured by Archduke
Joseph Ferdinand been large, Vienna
asserting merely, that the number oi
men captured by him "has been in
creased to eight thousand.
The occupation of Praga, reported
!. By Berlin, brings to a dramatic eli
max the first phase Of the drive al
Warsaw and Poland. Praga is essen.
tally 8 part Of the Polish capital with
4 great railway stations on the roads
: to Petrograd and Moscow. Few de.
tails have been received OF the fnaI
stand at Praga, but indications are
( that the Russian withdrawal became
imperative as the German lines grad.
ually were drawing together.
Warsaw now is the apex of vast
letter Y, the arms Of which are the
river Narew- on the north and the
yfstula on the south. The German
lines along the rivers are contract.
ing as the armies in the north and
those in the south approach each
other. The strip Of territory across
which the Russians may withdraw tc
safer positions now is barely more
!. than thirty miles across.
Petrograd reports a German re:
treat in the Baltic regions
"On the roads to Riga Monday
night, after hand to hand fighting
we successfully repulsed several Ger.
man attacks, although they were sup
ported by powerful heavy artillery.
AFTER combats the same night and
the following day in the direction OF
Dwinsk in the region of Schoenberg
Ponemunck and Vilkomir (northeast
Of Kovno, the enemy, yielding to our
pressure, began to fall back, leaving
in our hands about one hundred pris-
oners, machine guns and ammunition
chests"
Berlin reports: "On the front in
the district of Kovno the attack was
pushed forward with continuous
fighting, nearer the line OF fortresses
During these engagements we took
about one hundred more Russian
prisoners and four cannon.
''The troops Of the army of Gen.
Falcke broke through the line OF
fortresses in Lomza Monday after
noon and took Fort No. by storm.
AT daybreak Tuesday the fortified
town was occupied. South of Lomza
the high road to Ostrow was crossed.
Ostrow is still being held by the
enemy.
"Our troops have reached the Bug
from Botany, west of ;Brok, to the
mouth of the river. Since August Z
twenty-three officers and ten thou
sand men have been taken prisoners
in this region. East of Warsaw the