Gunnison news-champion., 1915-08-06

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ing Russians n 0nnh with the south
ern section But the Austrians we're
too slow to eawy out the field mar
shals plans cd the Russians. slip
ping into . sap n the lines between
the Germans anA their allies, slaughr
tered the latter. The result was the
high tide Of Russian Invasion. The
Austrians withdrew over the Carper
thians again, leaving Prxemysl to -
besieeed . sec0ad time. The Ger
mans withdrew to Silesia and the Rue
slams. fOllowinG closely, were ebho
for q brief nonsat to raid this ricA
Dssvincs ct PisscAsa. A. the sane
tine they sassssd East Prussis
aGsia.
DSt asaia ~ German strategic
railways proved their undoins Hinr
denburg coaoeo1goaed ct Thorn anl
drove into the rl0At Aank of the Rus
sian main forces. throwing tAso baOk
% Lodz.
He sdvaacel ~ 1ar, however. anA
when he had the Russian forces near
ly surrounded. - suddenly found Rue
SLAMS In his 0Wn rear. In this e.
treRity, the RuooiAns cay, he telo
OsADhed for rs-saforesments.
But before the re-enforcements
cent from FlanAsrs arrived the Ges-
mans hsA nanAosd at frishtful cOse
TO hack their ~ 10 safety. This Wao
tAs bloody beAtle q L0as
Wsss osssae vsssssy.
Wkh seroa0ss osrnaa essoes oppse
iAG them the nussians withdrew -
the line ~ Bzura, Rawa snd Nida
rivers. At the sane time the Aus
trians, attemptia0 to debouch from
the Carpathian passes. were driven
back everywhere. leavins $4,000 pris
oaers.
With January Hindenburg made .
third desperate attack on Warsaw.
For ten days, both night and day, the
Germans came on. Then. having lose
probably $4,000 men and the Russians
nearly as many. they gave 1t up.
Unable to reach Warsaw, HindenburO
concentrated twice Sievers force IL
East Prussia, end won his second
overwhelming victory there. Enos.
nous captures II Russians were made
and the fortress of Gradno was at
tackled farther west, from Ossowets
TO Pultusk. The Germans retreated
to Mlawa and then tried to flank the
Russians at Przasnysz, which city
they took. But the Russians again
nanked the Ranking party. as they had
done at Lodz and won an important
success February 22-2s).
In March and April, the Russians
pressed through the western Carpa-
THAN passes and entered Hungary.
est. the Germans broke the Russian
line in West Galicia and let through
enormous forces.
Pressing westward irresistibly. they
took the Russian Carpathian armies IN
the rear. The latter tried to retreat,
but vast numbers were captured
Przemysl, which had succumbed to
the Russian besiegers March 20, fell
again into the hands Of the Austro-
Germans
Crest German Msnsuver.
From Przemysl Won Mackensen
drove east through Mosciska and
Grodek and captured Lemberg, the
Galictan capital. Then he turned
north and marched upon the Warsaw
Ivangorod -Brest Litovsk triangle
from the south.
AT the same time the Russians in
southern Galicia. putting up q desper-
ate resistance. were driven by Won
Linsingen first to the line of the
Dniester and then across the Gnila-
Lipa to the line of the Zlota Lipa.
Reaching the vicinity of Krasnik
In their drive to Warsaw from the
south. the Austrians sustained a So
we're check in the scene of their tri-
umph of the previous summer. Held
ON this line the Germans attacked hot
ly from the north and took the town
of Przasnysz July 1D.
The Germans now began the erand-
est maneuver ever seen in the history
of human warfare.
Prom the Windau river in the Bal
tic provinces all the way along the
border OF East Prussia and In q giesn
tic sweep through the vicinity of Rs-
dom, west of the yistula. and n Line
south Of the LsAlin- -Cholm r>ilv~v
they delivered smashing bloxs s,a
have reached the very yates os War.
saw.