The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1915-07-23
TIGHTER AROUND THE RUSSIANS
Cars Forces Still Fighting Hard a
the Germans and Austrians Force
Them Back-Capital of Russian
Poland will Surely BE Taken by
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the Germans and Austrians Force
Them Back-Capital of Russian
Poland will Surely BE Taken by
the Germans.
There is an optimistic tone in the
latest official statement issued from
Vienna and Berlin respecting the
series of vast operations in the east
ern theater OF war particularly in
Russian Poland. There is little in
the official statement issued from
Petrograd to contradict the claims
set up by the Austro-G Germans. but all
of the communications indicate that
the most desperate fighting is in prog
ress at various points, and that the
retreating Russians are resisting with
determination.
In the drive aowad the Polish Cap
ital, the Russians have been pressed
back on the Blonie-Nadarzyn front,
which they strongly occupy, together
with the outlying defenses of Ivan
gorod. Berlin declares that the army
of General Won Woyrsch has driven
the Russians into the fortress of
lvangorod, to the southeast of the
Capital and is closely investing the
stronghold with its II forts.
To the north on the Narew front
heavy fighting has occurred and in
the neighborhood of Sokol the Rus
slams claim to have cleared the right
bank of the Bug of their opponents.
Between the Vistula and the Bug
and in the Lublin region the troops
respectively of Field Marshall Won
Mackensen and the Austro Arch
duke Joseph Ferdinand are reported
to be making steady progress, the
latter having stormed and captured
Russian positions over wide sec
ton
A dispatch from the Austrian head
quarters says the offensive of the
Austro German armies in South
Poland is proceeding with machine
like regularity and that the Russians
are now upon their last main line
of defense south of the Cholm-Lub-
lin-lvangorod Railroad.
After week of minor engagements,
the Austro-ltalian campaign is as
suming degree of ferocity which
puts it on a plane with some of the
long-drawn out and hard-fought bat
ties in the older war centers. The
Italian offensive movement on the
lsonzo front with Gorilla as the great
objective, has developed to large pro-
portions and heavy casualties are in
dicated by the fact that both sides
have been Obliged to bring up rein
forcements.
Rome reports the failure of the
Austrian attempt to cut off the Italian
left and noteworthy advance by the
Italian forces at several points.
On the plateaus along the Isonzo
the fighting has continued with I'M
diminished violence for several DAYS.
The Austrians in counter-attacks sue
ceeded in regaining positions which
they had previously lost. In one at
tack, according to Vienna, 10 Italian
infantry regiments were engaged. and
for the most part. the fighting was
hand-to-hand. A four days battle
on the Doberdo plateau has not yet
been decided.
France and Belgium are COM
paratively quite places for there has
been little fighting of late along that
front except with the heavy guns.
An interesting fact in connection
with the German submarine warfare
is contained in dispatch from Lon
don which says that for the week
ending July II not a British mer-
chairman or fishing craft was sunk
by German submarines. cruisers or
mines-the first instance of the kind
since the war began,