The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-08-06
v|STULA RE EG|ON
NOWCONTROLLEO
BY IEUIONs
Fall of Warsaw Completes Austro
German Victory
CITY STRONGH0lDS CAPTURED
Advices Received at London Indicate
that Russians Escaped with
Their Artillery.
CITY STRONGHOlDS CAPTURED

Berlin, Aug. 6.-The entire Russian
defence in the Vistula region has
been swept away, according to the
announcement Of the war Office to-
day. With the fall Of Warsaw went
the strongholds Ivangored and Noyo
Georgiezsk, the main defences OF the
city.
The fall of the city completes the
Austro-German victory in the Vistula
region.
London, Aug 6--Further particu-
lars OF the capture of Warsaw show
that the Germans have scored a com
plete victory.
While 10 the Bavarians command
ed by Prince Leopold. has fallen the
honor of taking over Warsaw in the
name of the German Emperor and
his consort who are expected TO make
a state entry within "A few days, the
real conquerers are the troops figh,
ing under Field Marshal Won linden
burg along the Narew river to the
northeast, to the Austro-Germans,
who crossed the Vistula to the south
of the city. and to the armies of the
Austrian Archduke Joseph Ferdin-
and and the German Field Marshal
Won Mackensen, whih are advancing
northward between the Vistula and
Bug Rivers.
The Russians are fighting desper-
ately and stubbornly to check the
progress of these four armies and
have had several successes. infiioting
heavy losses no their pursuers but
they are being steadily pressed back,
which made the longer occupation of
the Warsaw Polish salient a hazard
Gus undertaking. N
Even now, although the steadiness
of the Russian troops and their fierce
eounter-attacks have gained much
valuable time them, it is probable
matical whether the whole Russian
Army will succeed in reaching the
new positions chosen for it, or wheth
er, if it should get there, it will not
find these positions turned by the
Austrians, who have crossed the Bug
southwest of Chelm, and the Germans
under General Won ScholZ and Won
GalIwitz, who have crossed the Ma
rev.
At the northeastern end of the line
the Russian communications are fur
ther threatened by General Won Bu-
low who is advancing toward Dvinsk
on the Vilna-P Petrograd railway. In
deed, the Austro-Germans have set
three traps to catch and destroy the
Russian army. None of them was
sprung, but one was so near to clos
ing that the Grand Duke Nicholas
was forced to evacuate Warsaw and
now is fighting with all his might to
prevent the others from cutting off
his retreat
Thus far he seemingly has been
successful, for although the Germans
claim the capture of large number
of prisoners the aggregate is small
when compared with the immense
forces engaged In addition the Rus
sian guns apparently are well on
their way to the rear.
From refugees who left Warsaw
some days ago and who have arrived
at Moscow it has been learned that
Warsaw, even at that early date, had
been denuded of virtually everything
that might be useful to the Teutons.
Factories had been stripped of their
into the interior of Russia, and the
government of the city left to the
Polish population.
The Russians also are preparing to
evacuate Riga, the port on the gulf
of that name in the north The ar
rival of the Germans ten miles south
of that city already has been the
cause Of the civilian population de-
PARTING.