Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-07
TEUTON VICTORY
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population of Poland as against
similar declaration of Emperor Nicho
as promising eventual Polish autor
i omy under Russian suzerainty. TIL
outcome of these events In WARSAW
probably will determine the politica
status of Poland during the war.
| What the Germans will do next in
military way after attempting to com
plete their enveloping movement ia
matter of much speculation If tn,
campaign against the Russians is no
energetically pushed there Is the pos
fsibility of the present victories being
undone, while If an offensive in tn,
east Is continued, the Germans fac
rigors and dangers of winter cam
paign in Russia.
Conservative students here think /
will result in a compromise, IN which
the Germans will withdraw part o
their eastern army, leaving enough
men to maintain and secure the defen
sive positions when they have dug
themselves in.
ivanaorod is Taken.
Vienna, Aug. 6.-The occupation o.
lvangorod yesterday by Austro-Ger
man forces Is announced in an Official
telegram from the front
The evacuation of Ivangorod appar
entity was admitted last night by Pet
rograd in an official statement which
said. In the Ivangorod district the
Russians have crossed to the right
bank of the Vistula, blowing up the
bridges behind them"
A statement issued later in the night
explained that the lvangorod forts
were not properly constructed for
modern warfare. This statement was
made "1n reply to the Austrian claim
that a great victory was achieved in
the Ivangorod capture" 1t further
states that all the provisions in the
city were "methodically' removed after
which the Russian rear guard blew up
the concrete bases supporting the
brick easements of the forts, destroy
ed the bridges and crossed the river,
Ivangorod is located at the conflu-
ence Of the Vistula and the Vieprz
rivers. It is situated on the railroad
running to Lukow and Brest-Litovsk
and also on a line connecting with
Warsaw.
One Fortress Holds.
Petrograd, Aug. 6.-Novo Georgievsk
nineteen miles northwest of Warsaw,
still remains In Russian hands today
the evacuation of the
Polish capital, according to informa-
ton received by the Russian war Of
ice.
The fortress has been prepared for
4 siege and it is already invested It
the only fortified position
IN the Vistula river in possession of
he Russians.
The immediate causes of the evau-
cation of Warsaw, according to the
var office, were "the advance of the
enemy in great force on the roads to-
ward Ostrov, from Ostrolenka and Roe
IN on the one hand, and the presence
If large forces of the enemy who had
broken across the Vistula river be-
;ween Ivangorod and Warsaw at Mat
;ievitze."
Review Of Situation.
A war Office official, reviewing the
said:
THE day before the evacuation we
.lready had abandoned the old brick
ortress of Ivangorod on the left side
I the Vistula. We still hold the right
ank Notifications, but, inasmuch as
bis fort has lost its importance with
he abandonment of the left bank of
be position, strictly speaking the on
Y fortified point in our hands at pres
mt is Novo Georg1evsk.
According to information at hand
he enemy has been making every ef-
Drt to envelope the position, and the
ortress has been left to it's own re-
ources, to which end it had long been
repaired"
"Our armies in the forward theater
war are gradually moving back to
be positions assigned them, thus CIV
IL these armies the important advan-
age Of a shortened front and also
ringing them nearer to the fortified |
ne of Kovno, Grondo and Brest-
itovsk.
THE retreat was carried out, not |
nder immediate pressure of the en-
my, but in consequence of decision |
AIKEN Notwithstanding some instances
/ which our armies were having par
al success, often being able to force
re enemy backwards. With the oc-
upation of new positions on the left /
ank of the Bug and in the direction of
w olynsk and Kovel it Is be-
eyed that serious barrier to the
nemy's progress against Brest-Lit-
vsk has been erected"
Loss of Warsaw Discounted.
The loss of Warsaw had long been
iscounted in Petrograd and it caused
o excitement The newspapers COM
4. c11 - p@1s IL,
al without emotion, referring with
egret to its loss as necessity but
hich is regarded by them as being
My temporary. !,
In the vanguard of the German
,rces approaching Warsaw are said
, have been five brigades to combat
ny conhagration.
The Russian war office comments on |!
la effect of Warsaw's capitulation Oh
z . u. Il a Z y