The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-09
PRAGA OCCUPIED
ADVANCING
GER N A MS
Have Crossed VistuIa and Taken
WarSaW'S Eastern Suburb
SLAvs MAY ESCAPE TRAP
Russians in Rear Guard Fighting
Claim to Have Recaptured
City of Mitau.

London, Aug S-The Russian ar
mics have made good their escape
from Warsaw, and will be able to
take up their now line to the east
ward without serious losses, mill
tary experts here believe, in spite of
the various German successes report
ed from Berlin today.
1t is admitted that there will be
heavy fighting for some days to come,
but the advances made by the Kais-
er's troops, today are believed to
have been due to the withdrawal of
the Russians under their general plan
of retreat, and no indication is seen
in the official reports that the Rus
sian losses are heavier than were to
be exepected in serious rear-guard
fighting.
This view of the fighting is
strengthened by dispatch from Pet
rograd to the Daily News" which
says:
THE abandonment Of the German
attempt on Riga marks the failure
of the general scheme for forcing bat
tie with the retreating Russians be
fore they reach the Brest-Iitoysk
line. The, stubborness of the Russian
defense on the Narew has contribut-
ed mainly TO this important success.
Seeing that the Russian retreat
eastward to the new front continued
uninterrupted, the Germans attempt
ed to build bridges across the Vistula
and engage the Russians before they
could reach their destination, but the
Russian artillery from Nowo Georg-
iewsk demolished the bridges as soon
as they were constructed. Macken-
sen has attempted deep turning
movement is to be seen against kov-
no in the north. 1t probably will be
several days before the Gerans estab-
lish IL new attack
In addition to repulsing Won Cue
lows drive on the Riga. the Russians
also claim to have checked the Ger
mans elsewhere. The attacks of Kov
no and OssowitZ, which were repuls-
ed on the 9Th, have not been renew
ed while except where the withdraw
ais are taking place, the Narew line
still resists all IIindenburg's hammer
ings.
On the Vieprz, where obstinate
rear-guard actions are in progress,
the Russians claim to have captured
several hundreds of prisoners, and
to have driven back German advance
guards along wide front between
Touria and Lodga.
The official reports show that the
Germans continue to make progress
in all directions in their efforts to cut
off or to follow up the retreat of the
Russian army from the Polish sal
lent. They have commenced attacks
ON the, fortresses of Kovno and Osse-
wetz which are among the obstacles
they must overcome in order to reach
the railway running from Warsaw
through Wilma and Dyinsk to Petro-
grad.
They have taken the minor fortress
ses of Serock. at the junction of the
Narew and the Bug and have crossed
the Vistula in the vicinity of War
saw. Further south General Woy-
rsch is advancing eastward, but Field
Marshal Mackensen is being stub
bornly resisted and apparently max
ing at the best very slow progress.
On the whole the daring trap plan
ned by the Germans as grand Sc
quel to the capture of Warsaw is de-
yelopng slowly, so slowly that its
destined prey will escape, the experts
believe