The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-06
Great Ransom May Be Exacted
From Polish Capital by Ito
German Conquerors
MAIN RUSSIAN ARMY
is FAR TO EAST
Bavarian Prince Encounters
Only Rear Guard Action In
His Final Assault on City's
Defenders

London, Aug. 5.-IThe newt
able has occurred, and Warsaw
has fallen to the Germans.
According to official dispatches
from Berlin. the forces of Prince
Leopold of Bavaria. who began
their direct frontal attack on the
capital yesterday, swept back the
Russian rear guard which had
been holding them up on the
Blonie line, and surged past the
dismantled fortresses some time
during sast night, into the city
itself.
While the valiant rear guards
who have been sacrificing them
selves against Overwhelming
Teuton hosts for Ave days. may be
captured or cut to pieces, IL Is be-
lieved that the main body of the
Russian armies which have been
covering something like f25 miles
of half circle around Warsaw,
have escaped. and with them has
gone everything moveable from
the forts of the Vistula. the en-
circIing forts OF Warsaw, the
citadel of Alexander I'm the city
itself, and from Fort Siliwick,
across the river i'm praga. 1t Is
conjectured that the Russians also
blew up the great railroad bridge
leading To Praga. and perhaps the
Alexander Bridge, which Is par.
allcl TO IL. The retreat was effect.
ed over these structures.
May Exact Great Ransom.
All that Germany gets by its vic.
tory is the civil city of Warsaw itself
its public and private buildings in
tact. and the enormous ransom 1t will
exact from the citizens. Judging from
the $40. 900, 600 exacted from Brussels
the various ransoms from Antwerp
$40, 100000 at one time--it would not
be surprising If the Warsovians are
10 turn into the war chest
Of Germany and Austria at least $685..
300, 900. while the other Polish cities
taken will have to pay sums
with their population.
The main body of the Russians are
to have reached Siedlce
ffty miles to the east of the Polish
capital and sixty miles west OF Brest-
Idtovsk. on the line of the Moscow
Railroad. The secondary forces are
behind them with the remnants Of
the rear guard. using both the Petro.
grad and Moscow railways for escape
y The announcement ofs. ithaca pturs
Of the city reached London today
which has not been contradicted by
any other dispatches.
Result Discounted.
The announcement created neither
surprise nor CONSERVATION in London,
because 1t had been forecast by the
events OF a month Instead OF de-
preston there was universal rejoic-
Ing over the absence of any claims by
;. Of rjS nv y, a.
meant the Grand Duke Nicholas had
extricated his armies once again from,
a periIous position and he will have
veterans under his command wher
his country provides him with ade.
uuate arms and ammunition
Dispatches from Berlin by way OF
report the almost hys.
terical enthusiasm in Berlin and other
large German cities over the capture,
that ii is the beginnins
Of the end. the entire empire is given
TO demonstration. Flags are every
where, and all public buildings are
decorated. BY universal acclaim
August has been signalized as War
saw Day." henceforth TO be celebrated
rs such.
Kaiser Congratulates Leopold.
The Kaiser 1t Is reported. has sent
q congratulatory message TO Prince
of Bavaria. who led the troops
IN, the triumphant entry. thus dispos-
ing OF the report that the Kaiser had
selected himself for that honor.
The I.okaI Anxieger correspondent.
tonight. says the Rus
slams evacuated Nadarzyn on the
night of August "a. after firing the
,own. which was practically consumed
and Ia still burning. He reports all
roads blocked with fleeing peasants
md their belongings, ard the might
lighted with the glare Of burning farm
houses. He indicates that the Ger
mans have not been able to And any
thing of military value.
RUSSIANS HAVE DESTROYED
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