New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-31
cpOSS VISTULA
NEAR VANGOROD
Germans Announce Many
prisoners-FortreSs May
Have Been Evacuated.
BUGLINE THREATENED
1ordor Confident in Grand Duke
Expect New Drive in
France.

,.-3o- Julv 30.-Vigorous ani part
=, ,rccossful efforts by the Germans 10
-. o4 the retreat Of the Russians from
vo-sow followed hard on yesterdays
.-ror,cement from Petrograd that the
p.,;sb salient would be abandoned. Inc
--e..issue Of the campaign is no longer
s.ha.ba- Warsaw can be saved. but
,.lo.be~ the Russian armies can escape
.ba destruction which has been the
cb;ef object Of the German advance and
rb;cb would be a GROWING triumph for
the Teuton arms.
The Berlin official report this evening
,avs that Won Mackensen's army Is al
ready getting across the Russian line
of retrest. He is declared = have re-
spmed the offensive and reached the
Cholm-Lublin Railway. about midway
between those TWO cities, and that
southeast Of this, as far as the Bug
River. the Russian front had been
shaken
The success Of General Won Macken-
sen in getting across this railway, after
having been virtually stopped by the
Russian counter attack, denies at least
one line Of retreat to the Russians who
might still be between him and War
saw, and also places the Germans in
position to move against the Bug River
fronts should this be decided upon.
Still Confident of Grand Duke Nicholas.
British military critics, however, re-
fuse TO believe that Grand Duke Nicho-
las, commander-in- chief OF the Russian
forces, has not provided for all con-
tngencies or that he was not sure Of
the safety Of his troops before indi-
eating 10 the world that he had decided
70 take UP a new line indeed, the
news contained in the Berlin official
statement that the Germans have
crossed the Vistula River southeast Of
Warsaw, between the Pilica River and
Kozenice, leads the military writers to
the belize that the Russians already
have fallen back in this region and that
Perhaps even the fortress of lvangorod
has been left TO its fate.
There is no news Of the situation on
the Narew River or of General Won
Ba,ow's wider outAanking movement in
Kovno Province. However, the opinion
is expressed here that as the German
plans contemplate a series of attacks
rather than a simultaneous one, 1t IS
likely that they are waiting for Field
Marshal Won Mackensen to reach some
previously arranged position before
they resume their attacks.
According TO dispatches received
here, the country around Warsaw
which the Russians are leaving to the
invaders has been put to the torch,
while the city itself has been denuded
Of everything that might be Of use to
the Germans when il Ealls into their
hands. Il may even be some days be-
fore the Teutons occupy the Polish
capital, for the Russians are fighting
more than a rear guard action. In
fact they are still delivering very
heavy blows at their opponents and
are gaining some local successes, par
tcularly on the Narew and southeast
Of Cholm, where they are opposing the
eHorts OF the Austrians TO get across
the Bug River. However, military
crtlcS say that these local successes
VIII not affect the Russian plan Of
ialling back 70 a shorter and stronger
front,
New Move in France Expected.
As soon as the present operations
against Russia are concluded, whether
or not they succeed in destroying any
large part OF the Russian army, II is
expected that the Germans will turn
10 me west, movement which, how
ever, Will take a couple of months at
!easl It VIII, therefore. be race be-
tween the Teutonic forces and the
DItlsh and French as TO which side
WI! take the offensive in France.
me Berlin official report follows:
IN the eastern theatre the situation
IS unchanged.
In the southeastern war theatre
troops Of the army of Geseral Won
oNoyrsch early in the morning Of July
4Orced crossing OF the Nlstula
RIVER at several points between the
confluence Of the Plica and Kozienice
lSlXty-tve miles northwest of Sando-
mierz). Fighting on the east bank is
Proceeding. Up to the present 800
prisoners and FIVE machine guns have
oeen captured in these operations.
Yesterday the Austro- o-German troops
under Field Marshal Won Mackensen
again resumed the offensive. West of
me Nieprz German troops broke
through the Russian positions. In the
evening we reached the line Of Piaski,
biskupice and the railway running east
iIom these points. We took many
thousand prisoners and captured three
cannon.
This success in the advance of the
ro-Ge-man troop to the east OF
tne Vistula and the advance of the
russian Guard at Krupe. northeast of
Afasnostar, and of other German
Hoops 10 the district of Wojslawice.
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