Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-13
GERMANS CHECKED
0NB0THFLANKSBY
> RUSSIAN ATTACKS
One Blow After Another De-
u Iivered Against Invaders
! in Eastern Arena.
. 1EUTONS STRUGGLING
i TO REACH THE DVINA
Fortress of Kovno Holds Out and
= Kaiser's Men Are Beaten
- Toward Riga.
GERMANS SEIZE sIEDLCE
? Cars Soldiers Reported Victorious
GERMANS SEIZE sIEDLCE
Cars Soldiers Reported Victorious
Between the Vieprz and Bug,
I Where They Inflict
Heavy Losses.

LONDON, August 13.-The
Russians for the time being are
holding in check the Baltic flank
OF the German armies which are
struggling to cut the Warsaw
Petrograd railway and are bat
tling toward the Dvina, beyond
which lie the roads to the Rus
sian capital. This has been ac-
complished with the aid of REIN
forcements and by virtue of one
counter attack after another.
The fortress of Kovno still
holds out. German attacks to-
ward Riga have been repulsed
and the railway junction at
Dvinsk remains in Russian hands.
From Ostrolenka, north of
Warsaw, to Chelm, in the south,
the Teutons claim to have made
further progress, but between the
Nieprz and, the Bug they appar
entity have been thrown back with
!: heavy loss.
1t may be that Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg has not exerted
his full power in the north, but is
awaiting events in the south be-
fore hammering his hardest to-
ward the Dvina, near the banks
of which his cavalry has been for
some time.
The Polish city of Siedlce, fifty
five miles southeast OF Warsaw,
has been captured by the Ger
mans, according to an announce
ment made today at German army
headquarters in Berlin.
The city Of Siedlce lay directly in the
path OF the Teutonic forces. which
pressed eastward from Warsaw after
the capture of that place. 1t is in this
section that the Austro- German forces
are advancing most rapidly. Siedlce is
the capital of the province of that
May Insure Withdrawal.
The fact that the Germans are able
to advance with comparative rapidity
due east from Warsaw while being
checked on the right and left fianks,
mas given rise to the impression in
England and in Russia that the stout
resistance offered by the Russian wings
VIII insure the safe withdrawal of the
main body of troops from the Warsaw
sanent Contrary to many reports the
the Polish capital and Petrograd has
not been cut through. 1t would be cut
II the Germans were to take Dvinsk
Pays Tribute to Retreat.
Reviewing the situation in Russia, the
military correspondent of the Times
first pays an enthusiastic tribute to the
mastery retreat of the Russian armies
He says the stand made by the wings
protecting the army falling back from
Warsaw was magnificent and undoubt-
edly was entirely successful, as the
Warsaw army now Is assured of ample
time to fall back to a prepared posi-
tion.
The decisive front now, according to
the correspondent. is admittedly in the
far north where no real success is pos
sible for the Germans, until the fall of
Riga and kovno enables them serious
1y to threaten the retreat of the Rus
sian central and northern groups of
armies to the northwest.
Kovno Stepping Stone
Even Kovno is only stepping stone
Tor the Germans he says. The real
question is as to the strength of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg, whose pres
ence indicates he 81 at the head of a
formidable group of armies and in
charge of the decisive operation of the
eastern campaign. If Won Hindenburg
can be successfully opposed there will
be no catastrophes for the Russian
arms.
1T is premature to discuss what the
Germans will do in other theaters aft
er the conclusion of the campaign in
Russia. 1t is probable that they do not
know themselves. and their plans must
depend on the character and extent of
their success or failure.
Move in West Indicated.
significant order of the day pre-
dieting resumption by the Germans
of vigorous offensive in the west has
been issued to the Teutonic armies in
Flanders. according to the Amsterdam
Telegram. An extract from this order,
teiegraphed by the Amsterdam corre-
epondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company, follows:
Our work now is practically finish
ed in the east, and we are about to be-
gin In the west. Peace is certain in Oc-
tober."
the Argonne, assaults being launched
against trenches between Binarville
md Vienne-ie-Chateau and the ravine
of La Houlette. They were repqlsed
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