The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-03
Few Additional Details Re- garding Situation at
 Warsaw
RUSSIANS DISCOUNT
 RUMORS OF PEACE
English Submarine Plays Havoc With Shipping in Cinstantinople-Sinks Torpedo Boat and Wrecks
 Ammunition Stores

London, August 2.-l11 D. m.b-whiIe the Austro-Germans continue to tight Hen the wings of their great eastern battle arc, with success at both ex- 'tremeties. including the occupation of Aiifau in the north and further pro- IIgress beyond CheIm in southeast Pol and, the situation before Warsaw prop Ter remains unchanged and obscure.
 Few additional details have reached OLondon concerning plans for abandoning the city, but apparently the time has not arrived for the Russians to relinquish their increasingly precarious hold at least, no word of the capitals evacuation has come to London.
 Ivangorod Weakening 1vangorod, southeast of Warsaw, here Itofore enormously reported invested, is how nearing that state Berlin announces. IFut from 1vangorod eastward to Chelm land beyond the Russians are fighting des- |perately ohold up Won Mackenzens ad- vance northward into Poland. which men, aces the Russian center retiring from Warsaw.
 The western theatre has furnished noth- ing to alter the general situation, and it remained for the British navy to furnish an unexpected contribution to the day s news with the sinking of a German de- stroyer off the German coast by a sub marine, and a strange assortment of per formances by another British undersea boat operating in the Sea of Marmora.
 This craft not only crept so close to Constantinople sto launch torpedoes at lighters in the Golden Horn. presumably awaiting munitions from the arsenal, but with its guns bombarded and for a time ( ia1 +ln ~irtf,, Acta {. coast delaying troop train and causing havoc among the ammunition stores In addition, the submarine considerably Managed Turkish shipping and sunk one craft believed to be gunboat.
 Duma Meets
 Announcements in the Duma at Petro- grad and by the Russian ambassador at London indicate that Russia and England are anxious to brand as unfounded recur- dent reports that the Russian people are disgruntled at the showing Great Britain and France have made in the west which rflght create a situation unfavorable to the continued unity of the allies.
 No hint of separate peace or of dis satisfaction with England's policy comes from any authoritative source and Count Benckendorff made it plain that while there may have been some sentimental popular feeling in this country for a di- version In the west to relieve the strain iH Russia, there had been no criticism emanating from those who understood the military situation.
 Paris Report
 Paris, August 2.-Q0:30 D. m.)-An offi- cial communication tonight said:
 "The activity of the artillery has been less marked in Artois and the valley of the Aisne. A number of shells have been thrown into Arras and Sossons
 Tn the Argonne spirited infantry en- Gagements occurred on the night of August l and 2. In the region of Hill 213 the Germans occupied one of our trenches, which counter attack by our troops re- covered in part.
 During the course of the day, after having made use of flaming liquid. the enemy launched a violent attack against our trenches in the region of Marie The tese and succeeded in gaining a foothold in one of them. We immediately counter attacked and regained the greater part pf the ground lost On the heights of the Mouse and in the Woevre there was the usual cannonade, more intense around Champion.
 "ln the ,Vosges' a succession of en- evening of August 1 before the positions which we conquered on the heights of |Linge, of Schratzmannee and of Barren Xkopf. We have carried several German trenches, inflicting on the enemy heavy losses and taking 50 prisoners belonging tc two different regiments"