The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Invaders Divide Defence
Line Into Three Dis
tinct Sections.
100000 MORE MEN
TO FIGHT FOR RUSSIA
Advancing AustrO-Germans
Occupy Narew. East of
BiplOStOk.
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LoNDoN. Aug. 2S--Combined German
and Austro- IIungarian armies resumed
activity in Galicia yesterday after nearly
three months OF quiet; So sudden was
/ their attack appaI euuy that the Zlota'
/ Iipa River was crossed both north and
south Of Brzezany ana the Russians
/ were driven to within about thrty-hve
! yond Brest-Litovsk.
Military critics are not prone to be
l,evc that the Russians will enIeavor
10 make a stand ON this part OF the
front and II " generally conceded that
the Austrians and Germans fighting in
;his field can, IL they use sufficiently
strenuous tactics. puIsuade the Russian
forces TO retire to russian soil in a
comparatively short time.
The renewed activity in Galicia does
not seem to have diminished the energy
OF the German operations in the north.
The German official statement To-day
says that the pursuit OF the Russian
forces is being continued with unabateu
vigor and the gains reported would in
dicate this to bc the case.
Narew, a town twenty miles east Of
the Bielostok- -Bielsk railroad, Was cap
tured and occuplcc. as; night by the
. Germans, while further south the troops
OF Field Marshal von Mackensen have
forced their way some twenty miles be-
, miles beyond Brest-LtovsE.
. Attacks Near kovcI.
There have been strong German at
/ tacks also south of Brest-Litovsk, IN
= the region Of Kovcl. where the Russians
. are apparently falling back on the rripct
marshes as quickly as possible. as vcll
o to the north Of BieIostok. whore the OH
jective is wilma, and in the region south
. and east of Mtau.
I The German statement says.
n The official German statement says:
- Army group of Field Marsha. Won
II HlndeuhuIg: The enemy his been de-
= fcated In battles north OF RauSk and
y SchoenberG More than 1000 Ru.sinns
were taken prisoners and two cannon
= and nine machine guns were cap
tursd.
Enemy advances AGAINST parts of
our front between Radaiwlischk and
Svjadosze were repulscd.
\ Southeast of kovnu the troops OF
( Gen Won Eichhorn are making fur-
y thcr victorious progress. The enemy
is being pursued between the Rohr
and the Bcrbralowieska The town
of Narew has been occupied.
T. Army group OF Field Marshal Won
Mackensen: In the pursuit OF the
enemy the highroad from Kami"nez-
Iitovsk to MySozyoae has been
crossed. Between Murhawieco and
the Pripet our troops ar" drivln- the
defeated enemy in front of them
German cavalry defeated an enemy
ID cavalry division yesterday at 81
a mary. on the road from Koyel to
u Eubriu
'e southeastern theatre of war: Tn
Al der the leadership of Gen. Count
r Gothma, German and Aust % Hun
~ earian troops Yesterday broke
le through the Russian positions on the
Zlota-Lipa River north and south OF
= Rrzczauy. Counter attacks al night
"a by the enemy Were repulsed with
~ sanguinary losses, Early to-day tho
AT enemy abandoned resistance after
ed further failures The enemy is being
=" pursued.
-. The Russian war office issued Z
" statement to-day explaining the strateg,
a. which had necessitated the evacuation a.
,d Rrest I.itovsk and asserting that thu
x
taken by assault were inexact. Tha
ce statement says:
he General headquarters declares that
al the German report that Brcst-
I'd, Litovsk fell after an assault by Aus
So tro-German troops is ineNact- For
he some time it had been decided that
an to retain a garrison Of 100000 men
Mt in tins fortress was not confprmabl"
Sc with the Russian plans Hence war
material useful 20 the enemy was re-
in moved in time, and resistance was
zen maintained on the left bank of IN"
as bug solely To enable the army operat
ie- ing in this region to retire eastward
cir When this retirement was completed
the fortihCatious and bridges Were
on Destroyed. and the garrison reioined
the army in the field,
he
ley Russian Lines Pierced.
sh The German correspondents AT III
d front are sending enthusiastic dcspatch'
ART to the Berlin papers. They say the OF
wo erations against Russia are now begii
nh ming to lean toward the real objecti'
elr of all the eastern campaign, the tral
IN ping of large sections of the Russia
nto forces 1t IL asserted that already u
ity Russian front has been divided I'M
fer three separate sections each depende
de- upon itself and unable any longer
count upon concerted action.
re- These sections are enumerat,
he roughly as the lett and the right win
1ey OF the Russian army and the cent?
ged On the north Won Hindenburg has So
lys cred the Russian right wing from c
for centre, while on the south the forcet
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