New Britain herald., 1915-08-02

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 to Have Captured 17.oo0 Austrian
 Prisoners Since Entering Var Al
 lies Gain in West. :. Warsaw is still in Russian posses sion. according to the latest despatches from the continent. New Of it's evac- nation is expected at any moment however. for nothing has occurred in the past twenty four hours to indi- cate any other outcome 70 the German advance
 There has been no important fight ing on the Gallipoli Peninsula for two weeks Reports from Athens say that serious fire in Constantinople has destroyed three thousand build ings, including German military hos pitaL
 Have 17 ,0OO Prisoners.
 Last night saw infantry encounters in the Artois district, and fighting with hand grenades near Souchez in Channpa gne, and in the Argonne. ac- cording to the French cfnciaI state- ment Of today Nowhere were the S 55& Germans successful
 Charges Against Germans.
 x A French investigatins committee has submitted a further report on al- legged violations of the accepted rules of warfare by German troops.
 They have killed French wounded; used French prisoners as a shield against French ire, and otherwise 1treated military and civilian prison CTS with ini1umanity, according to 7 tfiis report.
 x Three ships sunk.
 Three British stea asaers. the Clinl tonia,. the Flllgens and the Benvcr- Hen are reported today to have been 'sauIk sunk by Geranar, si,pmarines.
 Germany has not vet decided whether the American note regarding submarine warfare will De aasNered or not, says message received from Berlin by wireless telegTaphy. She is awaiting the text of the next Amer ican communic cation to Great Britain before determining what course she will follow.
 Russians Holding Warsaw.
 London. Ans. 2, n :53 a m No di- rect news from Warsaw has been re- cetved here today. While there are increasing indications that Grand Duke Nicholas is withdrawing his army from the Polish salient, there is evidences that the capital still Is ir the 3 possession Of the Russians, since Pet roerad coTrespondents of Warsaw pa pers were directed to send accounts of the dumas opening for the issues of Monday morning.
 That Russia has not entirely aban- doned hope of diversion in the west which would relieve the trenendous pressure exerted upon her by tho Austro-G German armies. is shown by the arnouncement from Petrograd that the German forces before War saw have been heavily reinforced iron, the west. thereby : creating fayorablc conditions for active operations by our sn1lfeS.'s Hsg <. s ss5
 Heavy F1el111ng Along Narew. There has been heavy lighting on Athe Narew front, where the Germans have made some progress in the des- perate battle which n raging between E the Narew and tho O5o rivers. Latest reports from Vienna are to the effect that the Ru6saau4 are re- treating further east, purGuinx oer- man regiments having passed through Che1m.
 May surrendcr Warsasv. At the opening of the Russian dt1r,1a yesterday the ministers In their speeches, did not attempt to minimize the gravity of the situation, but al1 agreed that Russia had not reached the end of her rcsources The rain- , ister of war summed up his yiewsswtti1 tho assertion that Russia pUrfaps would surrender Warsaw as Moscow was given up in 1912, in order to in- sure final victory on the western front only artillery dneIs marked tho military opern- tions.
 Austx1au LOsses Heavy.
 Geneva, switzerland, Aus 3, 1f;so q. m. Via Paris. 3s10 D, m ThA den- eva Tribune has plibiiShcd aS aSdAspeteh from It's c9rrespond dent at Innsbruck, { Austria. who says that to the sass For Warsaw tho Gern1aAs have ceased : their attack but to the northwe1t tho terrible lighting is still going op. TO the north of LubIiu, since July Sl,. the HussiAns have been fighting yowerfu1 rear s1iard Gctt0n, tho dss- batch contiruse Tn thin ytcInity tiie { sAustrians have lot no lower ttsan 4N,- Eooo men darfng tho past Fl houva. To the south q Cheim tic eorfeA. spondent says there have been con-
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