Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-05
RUSSIAN REAR
GUARD HOLDING
TEUNONIC HOSTS
Austro. German Attack on the Line
Around Warsaw Makes Slight
Advance at Two Widely
Separated Points.
CzAR HOPES TO SAVE THE CITY
Later Dispatches Picture Life in
the Belesguered Capital as
Fairly Normal,
DAY OF PRAYER IN BRITAIN

LONDON, Aug. Rear guard
fighting of the Russians TO the north
west OF Warsaw has proved 80 effec.
tive that the German tide seems TO
have been held up, while to the south
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's
forces pushing north from Lublin are
being badly shattered.
About the only Austro-German
progress chronicled on the vast semi
circle in the east is toward Riga, in
extreme north, and before Ivangorod.
Warsaw still holds out and the
hope that the Polish capital may yet
be saved is becoming stronger
throughout Russia, France and
Great Britain.
Problems Complicated.
The German press notes the pause in
the Teutonic offensive and ezpiains with
the daily lengthening of communication,
the problem of transport and reinforce
ments become moro complicated, which
accounts for the delay. At the same
time the efficiency of the Russian rear
guard blows is not ignored by the news
papers. The German emperor and his
eonsort therefore. reported on their way
TO Warsaw for the triumphant entry,
have had perforce 10 postpone the. COM
pletion OF their trip.
! From Warsaw comes the optimistic
prediction that II the city Is able 10
| endure a week longer-and the despatch
was written four days ago--the evacua-
ton may be avoided. Although thousands
Of civilians have fled. the life OF the
beleaguered capital is pictured as fairly
normal.
The British empire observed with
prayer today the anniversary OF the
declaration OF war. Services are being
held In London and In the provinces and
throughout the dominions and colonies.
C;ernians defeated Along Narew,
PErRoGItAD, Aug 4--(Via London.) -
An official statement given out today by
the Russiah staff says;
f'pinine he last three days the enemy
has made enormous efforts TO dislodge
use from the sector of the Narew river
/ from Ost-olenka % Tomza.
I'm ths district OF Jedwabno the enemy
Is conducting trench warfare but in the
exploding of mines we have continually
held the upper hand. fH
'On the IiFsa and skwa rivers. the
whole enemy army attacked US. having
fret launched against US reInforcements
brought from France, Nevertheless we
soon saw a complete German defeat IN
this sector, for II took the enemy n week
to drive back from the village Of sor
watka Con the right bank Of the Pissal.
our rear guard regiment, while the battle
for the passage OF the Narew. near No
lNogorod, hns not even begun.
! Near the mouth OF the Skwa, tic
enemy. thanks 10 the Forests. succeede
In passing to our side of the river. but
we successfully prevented them from
bringing their artillery across the Narew.
and at the point OF the bayonet we an
initiated some forces which were de-
prived the protection Of their ARTILLERY
These failures compelled the enemy to
withdraw from this section the reinforce
ments which had come from France. and
send them to reinforce the Rozan army.
which was moving more rapidly.
This army was considerably strength
ened by other reinforcements. which cam
10 It from the left bank of the vistuIa
Nevertheless. all efforts OF the enemy 10
make progress to the east and west were
broken by the River Ole.
THE enemy then changed the direction
Of their attack and now on the front be-
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