Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-08-13
FORTRESS OF kOVNO is BEING
POUNDED TO CUT RAILROAD
FROM WARSAW.
MINOR FORT HAS FALLEN
Heavy Fighting In Caucasus Brings
Contradictory eports-Germans
Weave Strands in Net to
Stranele Russians.

Tie Ollcn SbliCllts NY hO'N HNo'h
an attack on the fortresses of kovno
and Ossowetz, which are among the
obstacles to be overcome to reach the
railway running from Warsaw through
Wilma and Dvinsk to Petrograd. They
have taken the minor fortress of Sc
rock at the junction of the Narew
and tht Bug and have crossed the Wis
tuIa near Warsaw. Farther south
General Woyrsch is advancing east
ward, but Field Marshal Mackensen is
being stubbornly resisted, and appar-
emily making slow progress.
On the whole, the daring scheme
mapped out by the Germans as Sc
quel to the capture of Warsaw-the
destruction of the Russian army-is
unfolding slowly. With the three main
railways, besides those built since the
war, it is believed in military circles
here that the grand duke will be able
to extricate his Warsaw army. The
events in the east, however, will con-
tinue to rivet the attention of the
world for some time to come.
The Germans have gained minor sue
cesses in the Argonne forests, where
the crown princes army has been try
ing for weeks to find weak spot in
the French defenses, but their efforts
to recover lost trenches on the Lings-
kopf in the Voses is declared to have
cost them dearly.
There has been rather heavy fighting
in the Caucasus between tht Russians
and the Turks. but the official reports
are contradictory.
There is much interest in the diplo-
matte negotiations in the Balkan capt.
tails, the reports from which indicate
Serbia at last is willing to cede Mace
donia to Bulgaria, but the Greek gov
eminent is opposing any suggestion
that she should return Kavala, the sea-
port in the villayet of Saloniki, to Bull
garia. 1t is thought, however, this
opposition may be changed when M.
Venizelos returns to power, which is
expected when the Greek parliament
reassembles early in September.
M. Venizelos offered Kavala to Bull
garia when he was premier simply in
return for her continued neutrality
while Greece went to the assistance
of the allies against the Turks, but
King Constantine put his foot down on
the whole policy, and the political
crisis which resulted in the resigna
ton of the Venizelos cabinet followed
The Petrograd Bourse Gazette pub
fishes a statement to the effect that
Germany has made peace proposal tC
Russia, but that they were rejected
There is no confirmation of this state
ment.
> Berlin, Aug g., via London Further
progress for the Austro-German forces
which are attempting to cut off the
Russian retreat was announced today
by the war office. The statement say!
l that Serock, at the mouth of the Bug
) north of Warsaw, has been occupied
: forts near Novogeorgievsk have beer
captured; the Germans have occupied
: the east bank of the Vistula near War
saw, and to the south the Russian
/. are being driven back by Field Marsha
: Won Mackensen. The statement fol
2 lows:
4 French hand grenade attacks nea
r Souchez and counter attacks agains
y the trench taken from the French il
y the western Argonne on Friday wer
K repulsed. Fighting in the Vosges
, north of Munster, was renewed Satui
S day afternoon. The night, however
was quiet.
a "The eastern theater-Germa
l. troops on the Narew are approachin
O the Lomza-O strov-Wyszkow road. A
g some points the enemy offered stuf
v born resistance South of Wyszko'
S the Bug has been reached. Serock, a
t. the mouth of the Bug, has been occl
l. pied. Near Novogeorgievsk our sieg
troops took the forts at Segrze.
Near Warsaw we gained the cas-
: ern bank of the Vistula.
" Southeastern theater-Under tn
v pressure of Field Marshal Won Macl
/, ensen the Russians are retreatin
n eastward. Between the Vistula and tn
a. Bug the left wing of Won Mackensen
y armies has driven back the enemy
E. northerly direction The right win
still is gaining in the direction of tn
X river Vieprz."
d cessfully their operations against Ru
"a STA in northwest Russia and in p
10 land; an engagement to drive the r
- naming Russians from East Gallo
, 9 has begun the British have reca
"a tured from the Germans in Belgiu
o. trenches taken from them recent
- through the use of flame protector
and have captured 700 yards Of ado
tional terrain there; French airm'
~ have bombarded Saarbruecken
~ Rhenish Prussia, to the northeast
Metz; the Italians and Austrians a
still in heavy combat.
". Thus may be chronicled in brief t
latest phases of the war as they ha
been made public through the vario
en- chancelleries.
Starting in northwest Russia, whe