Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-27
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THROWN BACK
Austro-G German Forces Meet
With Sudden Check
From Muscovites
FALL BACK TWO MILES
Cars Black Sea Squadron Sinks
Forty EIGHT Coal Ladened Vessels
Plight of the Turks.

Petrograd, July 27.-Von Hinden-
bure has been halted and thrown back
in his attempt to drive the Russians
back upon the river Bug defenses
north of Warsaw, the war office an
nounced early today in an official
statement.
after a stubborn combat, enemy
forces who crossed the Narew south
of Rozan and were advancing south
ward toward the Bug have been re-
pulsed and driven back from Ozh
to Olsaki' said the statement.
Olsaki is twelve miles north OF
the Bug and the movement repre-
sents an advance of two miles.
"Southeast OF the fort of PultusE
other forces of the enemy who eros
sed the Narew were repulsed at the
river Prout, seven miles north OF the
Bug. All German attacks on the Ma
rev front in the last twenty-four
hours have been unsuccessful"
Outpost fighting is occurring
around Ivangorod and Novo Georg-
ievsk, the two forts guarding War
saw. Energetic fighting continues
between the Bug and the Vistula,
with the Slavs maintaining their
positions.
In the Courtland district, the Ger
mans. evidently REINFORCED, are at.
tacking the Russian positions along
the Baltic. North of Groubieshow
Russian warships steamed close in
and aided in repelling German at
tack.
Continuing their campaign to sweep
the Black Sea free of Turkish snip
ping and cut off supplies en- route for
Constantinople. the Russian Black
Sea Warships have. sunk! forty small
sailing vessels laden with coal in the
last forty eight hours, it was an
n!o'uncedl today.
iAdvices received here say that the
plight of the Turks, is growing des.
perate. ~
!; BY wrecking the coal docks on the
Asia Minor coast and destroying coal
carriers, the Russian fleet has made
it necessary to shut down many Tur-
kish factories and the railways and
munition works lack coal Travellers
arriving at the Russian frontier say
it may: be necessary to shut down the
Constantionple waterworks.
Petrograd, July PA German air
raid: on the vistula bridge at War
saw failed of its object, though the
bombs cansed several casualties
among civilians. The German advance
from the Narew River now is 2
miles, as crow flies, from the War
saw-Petrograd railroad, but the Ger
mans still have to fight their way
across the Bug River, as we'll as owe!
6 miles of virtually roadless country
between Narews and Bug.
The fate of Warsaw really depend!
on the Bug river which is "a mucs
more formidable obstacle than is tn:
Narew, the crossing of: which by tn
Germans was facilitated by an isle
in mid river, near the confluence O
the Oriitz River. There was giver
out at the, War, Office. today an off
cial report on the progress of hos
tilities, as follows:
can official telegram from maii
headquarters, dated July 26, says thai
in the western theatre of the war M
important events have transpired any
where on. the front.
''In the eastern theatre: North O
the River iemen the army unde
General Won Buelow has reached tn,
district of Poswol- Ponivwitz. Where
ever the; enemy has offered resis
tance he has been beaten. We captut
ed over 1000 prisoners.
Rome, July Pit is semi-oficiall
announced that since the war bega
Italy has taken approximately 5000
Austrian prisoners, including 500 Of
ficers. More than 800 officers hav
been captured since July Is in tn
battle of the Isonzo.