Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-06

VIENNA VIA Berlin, Aug. 6.--The
Russian fortress of Ivangorod fftv
miles southeast of Warsaw. has b.en
captured by the Austro- Germanz II
was officially announced here toeay.
The allied troops began entering fhe
fortress on Tuesday
An Official statement given out at
Petrograd early today Indicated that
the Russians we're about to surrendAr
lVangorod to the enemy. The Rus
sian war office said all food supplies
mad been withdrawn from the fortress
because it was realized the bricl, walla
could not withstand the battering of
modern siege howitzers.
The Petrograd statement. however
contradiets the Vienna claim .i1at tina
fortress was captured by tho 4 soro-.
Germans on Tuesday. Petrograd de-
elared that on Wednesday the RUS
SLAMS retired from the Ivangorod
forts, on the left bank of the VistuIa
after blowing up the bridges and
established themselves on the right
bank. The city and the main fortress
OF lvangorod lies on the right bank.
Inc tall or Warsaw, the presence Of
German troops on the right bank 81
the Vistula, between Warsaw ana
iVahgorod, and the progress of Gem
eral Mackensen's left wing in the
southeast make il altogether prob-
| able that the Vienna claim is trt,e
by the United Press.
BERLIN, via London, Aug g.
German troops have broken through
the Russian positions at the fortress
or Novogeirgiewsk, north of War
saw and are advancing upon the
lower Narew river.
Fhe whole of the strongly fortified
Russian line on the Vistula river in
now swept away The capture az.
warsaw. followed closely by the fall
of lvangorod and Novogeorgiewsk
the two strongholds protecting the
Polish capital, completes the Austro.
German victory in the Vistula fieht-
ing.
Unofficial dispatches earlier in the
day reported the Russians evacuatire
Novogeorgiewsk The position of
the garrison was rendered perilous
by the evacuation of Warsaw. OnAa
small, triangular shaped region be-
tween the Bug and the Vistula, 100 900
Russian troops were in danger OF
being surrounded
The Germans who broke through
the Novogeorgiewsk positions are
moving eastward along the right
bank of the Bug to attack the fians
nf the SlaV
operation that makes it Imperative
for the Russians in that region 10
fall back at once across the Bug.
Occupation of the great Russian
Baltic seaport of Riga by German
army is now only a matter of hours,
Ivangorod, the Russian fortress de-
Tending Warsaw from the southeast,
has been captured by the Austrlans,
according to an official bulletin from
Vienna.
Smash at Russian Flanks.
Won Hindenburg on the north and
Mackensen on the south are smash
ing away in simultaneous attacks
against the Russian flanks. squeezing
in the wings of the beaten armies
and threatening the capture of whols
army corps. The world has never Wit
messed such retreat.
In the north the SlaNs are ngntlng
with rare courage and desperation to
save the Warsaw Petrograd railway,
toward which General Won Buelow is
battering his way. In the southeast
the enemy's resistance is equally de-
termined, the flower of the Russian
army endeavoring to halt Macken-
sens rush northward in the direction
of Brest Litovsk, a march that spells
disaster to the Russian left.
Between these two wings the Slavs
are falling back steadily, attempting
to wheel more than one million men
into a straight front to block the
German steam roller. The greatest
strategst of the ages could not or
ganize such a gigantic retreat with
out sustaining heavy losses in gum
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