Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-07-28
Slowly But Surely Teutonic
Forces Are Forging Ahead
In Regions South and
North of Warsaw. :
STRUGGLE FOR RAILROAD
Vienna Reports Decisive Con.
flict Will Be Staged Between
Vistula and Bug Rivers
Warsaw Holds Out.

patch from Vienna to the National lei.
tung says the final attempt Of the Rus
slams to stop the advance of their OPP
ponents in the critical battle of the new
line. southwark of the Lublin-C helm
railroad. southeast of Warsaw, has
ended in failure. The decisive action
IN this connection is likely to come In
the territory between the Vistula ana
the Bug rivers.
The Russian southwestern front is Sc
riously menaced. the dispatch dds. The
railroad line. running through IvangO-
ROD, Lublin and Chelm. is now only a
few miles %northward of the Teutonic
ines the capture of Lublin and
Chelm is said to be a question of only
q brief time.
London. July 23.-The strength of tho
outlying defenses Of Warsaw appeara
to have checked. for a time a least.
the impetuOsity of the T%eutonic drive
upon the Polish capital.
Hold at Ivangorod.
Driven back upon the fortress of
Ivangorod, to the southeast of the city,
the Russian line still is maintained at
that point, SO far as the latest official
reports show. 1t is wavering along the
curving front extending northwest
around the city. Berlin claims, but has
not yet been broken, while from the
fortress Of Novoseorgicvsk. along the
line of the Narew to the north, the Rus
slams are battling desperately against
the surging German tide.
To the southeast the great armies of
Field Marshal Won Mackensen are still
engaged in a mighty thrust for the
strategic Lublin-Chelm railroad line.
Both official n unofficial accounts
agree that the fighting here is des-
perate n that the issue has not yet
been decided.
Over the Russian ron from the Ball
tic as far as the Bug the only district
In which the Austrians and Germans
are not attempting a serious offensive
lies opposite the region of East Prus-
sia. which is well defended by the Ma
zurian lakes. North and south OF
Kovno German attacks are reported.
but the chief fighting is in progress
south Of Ivangorod. Lublin n Chelm.
connected by the railroad line. which is
south of sokal on the Bug in Galicia,
near the Russian border.
Reports Not Clear.
The report of the investment Of
[vangorod in yesterdays ~communica-
ton from the war office puzzles mill
tary experts, who declare it is impos-
sible that the great fortress could have
been surrounded completely. South
Vistula, h Germans report a victory
for the Silesian Landwehr. which
,tormed the Russian positions and
threw back their defenders int the
fortress of Ivangorod. AS the scene Of
The Silesian success is Is miles from
the fortress. it is believed here he Ger
man official reports must have been
translated enormously as claiming the
Investment Of the fortress itself. hen
the outlying protecting forts were
vent.
On the Narew front to the north
here has been a lull in the fighting,
,ut the renewed activity Of the Ger
mans from Kovno to the Baltic has
developed into an important engage
nent as a result of which the Russians
ave been compelled to retire.
Interest here in the fate Of Warsaw
8 undiminished. but the stubborn re-
distance Of the Russians Is doing much
o relieve the depression Of the Eng
ish. This feeling Of relief enables the
public to pay some attention to other
,attle fronts.
5000 Machine Guns Lost.
According to a Berlin newspaper dis
oatch from Russian headquarters.
which was passed by the censor. the
Russian armies have lost 1900 machine
gums. the greater part captured by the
Germans and Austrians. and the others
ruined by the technical incapacity Of
the men.
VOL EMIT TRENCH BATTLES