The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-08-27
BIAL.YSTOK AND
wilma MENACED
Their Capture Will Sever PetrO-
grad-POIand Railroad.
RUSS TO HOLD z RETREAT LINES

tect MuScoViIe CaPltdi-OSSo"S1N
is Captured by Teutonic Allies
Garrison Makes Escape, Moving
Eastward Without Serious Fight.
PETROGkAD = Admission that
the important cities Of Wilma and
Bialystok will shortly fall into the
hands of the Germans, thus severlng
the Petrograd-P Poland Railway, was
made bv high fficial tohe Russian
war office.
Our forces, however, will retain
two trunk lines and various branches,
sufficient 10 withdraw our armies Wlth-
out DANCE Of capture" said this war
office oftIllai III an interview approved
bv the government I'VE do not be-
lieve that Petrograd is in any danger
from the German armies. Ample
forces have been concentrated and
the necessary measures have been
taken to protect the capital"
Teutons Capture Ossowetz.
BERLIN - The Russian fort
ress city of Ossowetz has been cap
announced.
The capture of Ossowetz, which has
been under intermittent bOmbardment
bv the Germans since 4.tst winter,
gives Won Hindenburg possession OF
the last of the Polish railways feeding
the Petrograd-Warsaw trunk line. Os-
soWetz lies 10 miles northeast OF
Warsaw. The sWamps before the fort
ress hindered the movement of heavy
siege guns for the German attack and
enabled the Russians to resist the
German attack after LOmza, Ostro-
Ienka, Przasnysz and other fOrtresses
OF the Russian first line. of defense
had fallen.
General Won Gallwitz's drive east
ward through Bielsk and Won linden
burg's progress in a southeasterly di-
rection from KOvnO threatened the
development of the Russians in the
Ossowetz district.
The Russians evacuated OsSOwetZ,
the war office reported, indicating that
the garrison moved eastward without
a serious fight.
Germans Lose More War Graft.
LONDON - A dispatch to the
Morning Post from Petrograd says:
In addition to the German losses
previously reported in the Riga bat
tie, a German submarine was run
ashore on coast of Dago island Tin
the Baltic sea, just outside the Gulf
Reuters Petrograd correspondent
says that a semi-official statement
adds another auxiliary cruiser to the
previous list of the German losses.
Decisive Victory for Russ Fleet.
LONDON, ENG. = The greatest
naval battle of the war, with a de-
cisive victory for the Russian fleet
opposing the German naval advance
upon Riga, is officially reported from
Petrograd.
Military and naval authorities here,
who had deduced from Saturdays Of
fetal German report on the battle
that the Germans had been victorious,
were stirred to high pitch of en-
thusiasm for the cars sea forces by
the report which revealed that while
the Russians had lost two gunboatS
and torpedo boat and suffered dam
age to several other naval craft, they
had inflicted much more serious loss
es upon the Germans ana had driven
the attacking fleet from the Gulf of
Riga.
Eleven Warships Sunk.
PETROGRAD The president
of the duma announces that the Ger
mans lost the superdreadnaugh Mott
Ike, three cruisers and seven torpedo
boats in the battle of the Gulf of Riga.
An official announcement adds that
the German fleet has left the Gulf of
Riga
German Torpedo Boat Sunk.
PARIS 1.-TWO French tor
pedo boats encountered and sank a
German torpedo boat destroyed off
Ostend, Belgium" says an announce
ment made here. Our boats were UNI
damaged"