Evening journal., 1915-08-06
RIGA IN DANGER
now OF CAPTURE
BY THE GERMANS
Noyo Georgievsk, North Of
Warsaw, Also Threatened
By KaiSer's Armies
.EAISER'S next MOVE
MAY STARTLE WORLD
By The United Press.

by Ihe Jnlleu iftss'
BERLIN. Via The Hague. Aug e.
The greatest military campaign in
the worlds history is drawing rapid
ly to close. The Russians are
everywhere in retreat. from the Bal
tic to Galicia. their armies threatened
with disaster
Occupation Of the great Russian
Baltic seapoart Of Riga by a German
army is now only a matter OF hours.
fvangorod. the Russian fortress de-
Tending Warsaw from the southeast.
has been captured by the Austrians.
according TO an official bulletin from
Vienna. Novo Georgievsk lying north
OF Warsaw and considered impregna-
Bile. is being hastily evacuated by the
Russian garrison which is falling
back In confusion to escape capture
at the hands of the Bavarians who en-
tered Warsaw
Won Hindenburg on the north. and
Mackensen on the south, are
smashing away in simultaneous st-
tacks against the Russian tanks.
squeezing in the wings OF the beaten
armies and threatening the capture
t'N'N@
never witnessed such a retreat.
In the north. the Slavs are lighting
with rare courage and desperation 10
save the Warsaw-Petrograd railway
toward which General Won Beulow Is
battering his way. In the southeast
the enemy's resistance is equally de-
ltermined, the nower Of the Russian
army endeavoring 10 halt Macken-
sens rush northward in the direction
Of Brest Litovsk, a march that spells
disaster TO the Russian left
Between these two wings the Slavs
are falling back steadily attempting
TO wheel more than one million men
into a straight front to block the Ger
man steam roller The greatest
lstrategist Of the ages could not or
ganize such a gigantic retreat with
out sustaining heavy losses in guns
and men. In the opinion OF military
men here. Consequently the rout OF
the whole Russian armies was pre-
dicted In military circles here today.
So engrossed is the German public
in the mighty effort now being made
to cut off the Russian retreat that
there was little speculation here to-
day regarding Germany's next move.
In official circles the hint was drop
ped last night that the next stroke Of
the German armies will astonish the
world.
From Warsaw itself little information
had been received here today. though II
was understood that the fleeing garrison
was being hotly pursued. This was
taken 10 mean either that the Russians
had not succeeded in destroying ali the
Nistula bridges in their hasty flight OF
that the BayaIian prince had held pom
toons in readiness and had quickly
bridged the stream.
At least 100000 Russians, fighting IL
the angle whose apex rested on NovC
Georgievsk fortress, are believed to b'
threatened with capture by the fall o.
the Polish capital. Retreat for them wal
possible only over two railways, boil
leading 10 the eastern suburbs OF War
saw. To take either of these after War
saw had fallen was TO deliver themselve
into the hands of the Germans. To re
treat over the plain in a northeastern
direction along the Bug river was Il
face the danger Of being cut off by
German advance over the Warsaw Petro
grad railway.
Before nightfall, the Russians who Is
capped from Warsaw are expected I,
have begun arriving at Novo AIinsk. q
miles cast of the capital. II was no
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