Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
RUSSIANS ST|LLIa
HOLD TO WARSAW
Austro-Germans Continue
to Tighten Grip Around
The Capital
KAISER PUSHING ON
Ivangorod Now Invested and Mack.
ensen Threatening Russian Centre
Desert Warsaw.

Petrograd, Aug. 3-Three hundred
thousand Germans, under General
Won Galliwitz, have began terrific
drive southwark in an attempt to
cut the Warsaw-Pe -Petrograd railway
by crossing the river Bug at Vyskoi
thirty miles northeast of Warsaw.
Their aim is to seize the railway at
Warsaw, and surround part Of the
Russian armies still holding the sa-
lient around Warsaw.
Won Galliwitz is equipped with
heavy guns of all calibers and has
been supplied with fresh troops, pre-
sumably from the western battle
front. Evidently he has been ordered
to batter in, by quick, smashing blows
the northern defenses of the capital
and force the ctys fall without fur
ther delay.
London, Aug. 3-While the Aus
tro- Germans continue to tighten the
wings of their great Eastern battle
front, with success at both extre-
mites, including the occupation OF
Mitau in the north and further pro-
gyess beyond Cholm, in Southeast
Poland. the situation before Warsa"
proper remains unchanged and OBJ
scure.
Few additional details have reach
ed London concerning the plan Tor
Sl,e abandonment oi the city. hui ap-
parently the time has not arrived
for the Russians to relinquish their
increasing precarious hold on the
capital, or, at least, no word OF It's
evacuation has come. to London.
Ivangorod, southeast of Warsaw,
heretofore enormously reported in
vested, is now nearing that state IN
fact, according to the Berlin announ-
cement, hut from Ivangorod east.
ward to- Cholm and beyond the Rus
slams. who had to abandon the rail-
wav. are fighting most desperately III
an endeavcr to hold up Field Marshal
Won Mackensen's advance northward
into Poland, movement WITCH ser.l-
ously threatens the Russian centre
retiring from Warsaw.
The intimation that the Vistula
line was to he abandoned by the Rus
slams and the beginning of the reno
val of factories, Government institu-
tions and hospitals created intense
excitement among all classes Of the
population of the Polish capital.
1t was feared that the military au-
thorities might deem the evacuation
of the city :by the inhabitants a mill
tary necessity and would destroy a
great part uf the 'city:to prevent It's
use by the Germans as base.
Many wealthy residents left for the
interior and many of those who have
remained sent their families out dur
ing the last fortnight.
Stations and trains are overcrowd-
ed to discomfort, the number of pas
sengers having been increased by
necessary military precautions.
The Streets, which. generally are
thronged, became deserted. The res
taurants and coffee houses are empty,
the inhabitants keeping indoors,
seemingly fearful of some immediate
disaster.
That period having passed with a
realization that the city is to be
pared, those remaining have taken
up their normal trend of living.
The French and Belgian Consuls
left the capital in the early days of
German proximity, turning over their
affairs to the American Consul, Her
rando De Soto.
The cost of provisions is daily ris-
ing. virtually none having reached
the city from the outside.
Three daily newspapers have been
suspended. One of them was founded
in TIA and was the organ OF the
popular Democratic party.
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