The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-08-20
WARSAW TAKEN
BY KA|SER'S MEN
Bavarian Troops Carry the PO-
Iish Capital by Storm.
lvANGoROD ALSO CAPTURED
Cars Army Believed TO Have With
drawn in Safety, Protected by
Rear Guard Actions-Teu-
tons Capture 1852 Slavs.
BY FREDERICK WERNER.


Berlin, Aug. 7.-Ivangorod, the
strong Polish fortress on the Vistula
southeast of Warsaw, has fallen. Aus
tro-German troops entered the city on
Thursday. 1t was officially announced
here.
The execution of Riga, on the Bal
tic, is expected hourly, as the great
cavalry army Of General Won Buelow
is less than ten miles from the city
and driving strong against the rear
guard OF the retreating Russians
After occupying Riga, the German
army OF the north is expected to
strike at the Petrograd rail-
way and cut in two this important
line Of communication.
The evacuation of Ivangorod was
part of the general plan Of Grand
Duke Nicholas to withdraw his troops
all along the line. The city js an
important railway center. One line
runs into Ivangorod from Warsaw,
another from Novo Minsk, another
from Brest-Litovsk and others from
ANoNOih' GuhOW anu LuDlln.
Warsaw Is Captured
Berlin, Aug. 6 (by wireless via Tuck
erton, n. JD.-Warsaw has fallen. Of
ncial announcement of the capture of
the great Russian fortress on the Wis
tula river was made by the German
war office. The statement follows:
Headquarters reports that Warsaw
was taken this morning. Prince
Leopold's Bavarian troops broke
through the forts on the outer and
inner lines where the Russian rear
guards were making tenacious resist
ance.
The armies Of General Won Scholts
and General Won Gallwitz have ad-
vanced toward the road to Lomza, Os-
trow and Wyszkow with violent en-
gagements taking place.
Russ Resistance Desperate.
Desperate Russian resistance on
both sides of the road from Ostrow to
Rozan was without success. Twenty.
two officers and 4,84O soldiers were
taken prisoners and we captured II
machine guns.
German cavalry defeated I'm Cour-
land and Samititia Russian cavalry,
near Gensize. Birshi and Oniskszhty.
Yesterday and day before 1925 Rus
slams were taken prisoners.
THE situation near and north of
Ivangorod is unchanged.
Our pursuit of the enemy between
the Upper Vistula and Bug rivers con-
tinues.
German cavalry has entered the
region of Vladimir and Volynsk. east
of the Bug"
Warsaw fell before the third great
Austro-German drive that had for it's
object the capture of the great Rus
sian stronghold.
The capture of the fortress means
that the Germans are now in posses
sion of great part Of the network Of
strategic railways in central Poland
which the Russians had been using to
shift troops from one part of their
battle front to the other and for the
transportation Of ammunition and food
to the front.
Campaign Begun In May.
The campaign which ended In the
capture OF the Polish capital began
early In May when Field Marshal Won
Mackensen. with a vast Austro-Ger-
man army at his back, began driving
the Russians from the Carpathians.
Surging eastward the Germans and
Austrians first took the mountain DO
sitions of the Russians and then re-
captured Przemysl and Lemberg.
After the Russians had been driven
from Galicia Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen began sweeping northward to
get behind Warsaw. In the meantime
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg. to
whom the lions share of the credit
goes, was waiting in northern Poland
and at the proper moment began driv-
ing southwark In the meantime Gen.
eral Won Buelow had cut into Russian
Courland with a gigantic cavalry army
ard dashed toward Riga in order to
sever the Warsaw-Petrograd lines of
communication and prevent the retire
ment Of Grand Duke Nicholas Rus
sian army.
All along the line the Russians re-
tired. They were lacking in arms and
ammunition and oppocing them wei e
the flower OF the German and Austrian