The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-30
TEUTONS CONSUMMATE COUP AIT WARSAW AND
 WILL CAPTURE CITY

LONDON, July 3O.-The Rus sians have begun the evacua- ton of Warsaw. They are re- moving all public documents, and treasures from the city. The banks are sending their gold and other money to Petro- grad. Works of art and other valuable movable properties are being transported to PetrOgrad and Moscow. No fears are ex- pressed at Petrograd but that the defenses to the city will hold out until the evacuation is completed. The army and gar risOns will be the last to move.
 LONDON, July 30. - German and Austrian forces In overwhelming num- bers reached the gates of Warsaw this morning, reinforcing the terrific at- tacks that were launched last night against the defenses of the city.
 Dispatches from both Petrograd and Warsaw stated that further resist anee would only mean a useIess waste of life and war material, and that wisdom dictated the abandonment of the city to the enemy.
 Dispatches from Petrograd say that the battle for Warsaw could be pro- Iongcd, and that the city might be held indefinitely according to de- clslon that was arrived at by sener- al staff council of war that continued until the early hours of the morning. However, the final decision was in favor of the evacuation of Warsaw, and not to give the Germans pro- longed battle until the army Is better equipped.
 GREATEST COUP OF WAR.
 The information received at Petro- grad last night that the German and Austrian forces who were withdrawn from the wings, weakening the at- tacks both north and south of War saw, where the Russians had success fully wlthstood the force of the ter rife Teutonic thrusts, had been con ccntrated in the German center for direct assault on Warsaw, disclosed what has probably been the greatest coup of the war. The movement came as complete surprise. The trans fer of the troops had been accomplish ed with such secrecy that both Pe- trograd and Berlin were in complete ignorance of it until the dispatches coming from Warsaw told of the as- sembling of the hordes of the Central Empire at the gates of the city, and of the attack that has been made. The astonishment at Berlin was as great as that at Petroerad and Lon- don when the news came.
 RUSSIA SAYS LOST
 INO flllN0s
 Petrograd dispatches today say that there will be little loss of men, guns or war material with the evacu- ation of Warsaw. The Russians had improved their lines of communica- tion in anticipation of retreat from the city and the whole force of the first line of defenses will be removed to the second line, which, it Is claim ed, are equally as strong, and closer to the basis of supplies. The loss Is not the general staff announces, of great importance SO far as 1t con- cerns the strategic situation.
 RUSSIA CUT OF AMMUNITION.
 It Is believed by war experts here that the sudden determination of the Russians to evacuate Warsaw Is due more to failure of the ammunition supply than anything else. It Is pointed out that the Russians have won nearly all of the actual engage ments during the German drive, and that they are prepared to reinforce the forces at Warsaw SO as to cope with the attacking armies if the strat- esy of the situation should demand that.