Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-06
RUSSIAN ARMY IS
IN GREAT DANGER
British Military Experts Fear Drive
North of Warsaw Will Gut
Off It's Retreat.
SITUATION OF RIGA IS CRITICAL


LONDON, Aug. 5.---Warsaw's fall
Is now considered in London TO be so
certain that it's fate has ceased to be
matter OF speculation, while the
vast turning movement Of the Ger
mans to the northwsrd Of the Polish
capital is exciting the concern of the
entente allies.
1t is feared by observers here that
the evacuation Of Warsaw may be too
late to save the armies of Grand
Duke Nicholas from the grave disas-
which would be inevitable IL
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
should get astride the Warsaw-Petro-
grad railway.
In the north the Russians now are de-
Tending the line OF the Bkau river, east
OF Mitau. This means that the Germans
are at a point forty miIes south OF Riga
and about one march from that town.
situation OF Riga Critical.
The critical situation at riga IL in
creased by the evacuation of the city by
the nonmilitary elements OF the popula-
ton. the banks being the last to leave.
German cavalry forces are securing the
country In such numbers that the War
saw Petrograd line always " In danger
| OF being cut.
Al KupiOch. seventy miles west OF
Dvinsk. heavy fighting Is in progress.
with the Russians resisting stubbornly,
a. tho breaking of the defense would
moan the early loss OF Dvinsk. the most
important junction OF the Petrograd-
Warsaw railroad.
Desperate battles stll are prevailing
along the Narew river. with the Germans
meeting the stone wall OF the Russian
defense, except at a point near ostro-
ienka, where they forded the river cap
tured several thousand prisoners and
forced the Russians back TO the outer de-
lenses on the northern front OF tho
fortress OF Lomza
Prince Leopold and his Bavarians now
are before Warsaw, Berlin claiming that
the Russians have been thrown from the
Bionie line into the outer defenses OF
that fortress, which brings them four
teen miles TO the westward Of the Polish
capital.
Germans 0ssupy IvanEOrOd.
Berlin reports the Germans have 90
cupied the western portion OF Ivangorod
fortress. but Petrograd claims that the
Ivangorod-warsaw railroad still is open.
] Comparative quiet prevails on the west
: ern front and in the minor battlefields.
A significant phase OF the near eastern
operations. which has passed almost UNI
noticed. is revealed in the announcement
, from Petrograd OF the destruction OF
almost nine hundred Turkish craft In
! the Black see by Russian torpedo boat
fiotilia- More than 500 OF these vessels
were sailing ships. which had been bull
70 carry supplies from the Anatoliar
!, coast. The persistence OF the Turks II
building these ships. despite their con
tinued destruction u accepted here al
meaning that constAntinople is in des
a perate need OF supplies. The British
Board OF Trade for July shows tina
4 sixty-two British steamers and sailinl
q craft were sunk BY the Germans durini
a the month, with n loss OF sixty-thre
lives. while four steamers ana nineteel
lives were lost by mines.
italian offieiaI Report.
ROME. Aug. 4-Cvia Paris. AUG. AZ
/, The following statement was Issued to
u night at the headquarters Of the ItaliAl
general staff:
A "our heavy batteries directed an sf
feetivo fire on the station Of BOrgo, o.
the railroad In Val Sugana, where ther
IL an Important freight traffic.
> The enemy,s losses In stubborn attack
d on Mount MCdatta In Carnia now pr
= found 20 have been very grave.
4 ION the carso plateau the night OF IN
O ID passed quietly During the mornin
our artillery sheiied masses o. infantr
=; observed near Msroottini, and column
4 marching along the road from Rupa
r Doberso Our troops, having resume
y. their advance, the left wing and IN
n center made slow progress, but on N
\. rlEht wo confined ourselves 20 mAintaiI
:, ling positions previously conquered.