The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-27
Brest-Litovsk Falls When
Slav Troops Fail to Resist
Advancing Germans ~
the Bug
RUSSIANS PLAr.sso
TAKE UP OFF, 'sIvE
STILL FUR 4R EAST
Air Craft Active in Western
Zone = Italians Report
Minor Success Against the
Austrian Forces

London. August 36.-1O,2O D. m.)
The Austro- Germans today marched
into Brest-Litovsl, center of the Bus
river line of defenses and main con-
centration center. The Russians put ur
desperate resistance to the German
advance, but made mo attempt to de-
fend the fortress itself, evacuating II
as they did Ossowets.
Petrosrad dispatcher had Indicated
the Russians were planning to take
UP defensive positions farther east.
The Germans now hold the entire rail-
way line from Chelm to Bialystok AS the
Russians already have evacuated Bialy.
stok, the lesser fortresses of Grodno and
Olita are the only strongly defended pc.
sitfons remaining in the hands of the Rus
slams. The Germans are nearing both OF
these and they probably will be given ur
when they have fulfilled their purpose OF
facilitating the Russian retreat.
The Russians have not yet entered the
vast Bieloviezh forest, which extends &c
miles north and south and has a width OF
from II to 80 miles. The forest Is a IA
nous hunting center. South of it are the
Pripet marshes, which protect the Rus
sian left
With plenty of roads and three or four
railroad lines it Is expected here that
Grand Duke Nicholas will make good his
retirement If Grodno and wilma can hold
out long enough. Even IL they should
fall. military observers say the grand
duke would be well on his way to his new
positions before the Germans could reach
his flank. There is again talk of Rus
sian preparations for stand, but no in
dication as to where this attempt is to be
made.
s.A.-s Airships Activc-
Air craft again have broken the mon
otony of the western warfare. Sixty-twc
French aeroplanes flew over the Dil,igen
iron works, near Saarlouis. Rhenish Prus-
sia, dropping 100 bombs, while British
aviator is reported to have dropped =
bomb on and destroyed German subma-
rine on Ostend. The German report say s
that four of the French machines in the
attack near Saarlouis we're brought down,
one. however. falling behind the French
lines.
The admiralty report of the Germp n
submarines sinking significantly stated
that 1t has not been the practice of the
admiralty to publish accounts regarding
the losses of German submarines, i'm
portant though they have been," in cases
of information as to the time and place
at which these losses occurred. 1t has
been reported for months that a large
number Of German submarines, variously
stated at from 20 to 40, have been caught
by the British navy. but today's state
ment is the only official admission that
there were others than those previously
announced by the admiralty as having
been destroyed
On the Dardanelles
The Italians claim further minor sue
cesses on all their fronts, but these are
denied by Austria. OF the operations on
the Gallipoh peninsula there is no further
news.
Wounded men arriving at Alexandria
tell of how nearly the allies came TO
gaining a great success in one attack.
An Australian officer declared that If the
allied forces had had two more hours Of
darkness they could have covered 600
yards of ground, which separated them
the Sari Bahr hill, generally known as
Hill 971. Once this hill was in the allies
hands, the OFFICER declared, the Turkish
communications would have been cut ard
1t was for the possession of this hill that
the dominion troops fought so bravely
but futilely
Except for the postponement Of the
statement of the Greek premier. M. veni-
zelos, on the future policy of Greece, there
Is nothing new in the Balkan situation.