Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-05
GERMANS CAPTURE
L|NEOF TRENCHES
FROM THE FRENCH
Paris Admits Enemy's Victory.
But Says Other Attacks
Were RepuIsed.
RUSSIANS IN DESPERATE
BATTLES IN THE EAST
Fighting to Prevent Loss of War
saw, Which Now Is Admitted
Possibility.
INHABITANTS ARE IN FLIGHT
Messages Dropped by German Air
men Predict Capture Of Polish
rori%o1 nafo,> ~ ia
RUSSIANS IN DESPERATE
BATTLES IN THE EAST
INHABITANTS ARE IN FLIGHT
Messages Dropped by German Air
men Predict Capture Of Polish
Capital Before the End
Of July.

LONDON, July 5.-German
assaults in force on the French
lines are continuing and have
been successful in regaining
ground previously lost on front
two-thirds of a mile long between
Fey-en-Haye and the Moselle.
The French official statement of
the day admits this, while record
ing the breakdown of attacks
along other parts of the front.
Russians Fight Desperately.
In southern Poland the Russian
armies driven over the Galician border
are fighting determinedly to check the
Teutonic thrust at Warsaw. The most
recent Austrian official statement ad-
mits that the Russians have been
strongly attacking" in several sectors.
Petrograd tells of desperate engage
ments between the Vistula and the Bug
rivers, and claims to have checked the
Austro-Germans at different points. but
comedies a retirement in east Galicia
from the Gnila Lipa to the Zlota Lipa.
Vienna declares that at what seems to
tonic attack in Poland, near Krasnik,
the heights to the north were taken.
Admits Peril to Warsaw.
II the Austro-Germans can continue
their progress another week even the
British press admits the Russians will
have to give up Warsaw. and with 1t
the whole line. Meanwhile the Germans
are massing more troops in the Baltic
provinces. and the recent encounter in
the Baltic seems to suggest that they
contemplate coordinate naval action,
but it is possible that the sea opera
tons were only feint.
In southeast Galicia the Russians are
fighting tenacious1y and have the adj
vantage of a remarkable series of par
a1lel rivers beyond the Gnila Lipa, and
the Austro-German advance is likely to
be extremely costly.
Thus. on their two extreme wings the
Russians appear to be firm. and where
they are retreating. 1t is still claimed,
their retirement is orderly and accom-
panied by vigorous rear guard opera
tions.
Enters Difficult Country.
The Austro-Germans, who are ad-
vancing in the center. are, moreover,
with forests and streams and barren
Of railways. between the middle Wis
tula and the Bug-natral advantages to
the Russians, which military writer's
here repeatedly emphasize. They point
out, too the daily frightening chain of
Austro-German communications, which
brings an added burden to the Teutonic
allies
Some sections Of the British public
think the time has come for Great
Britain and France to begin a general
a transfer of German troops from the
eastern theater. but the more conserva-
tive military writer's think that the
time for this is not at hand and that
the best aid England can lend her
eastern ally Is to put into Russia every
ounce of ammunition that can be
spared without curtailing the neces-
sary supply at the western front.
Airmen Warn Warsaw,
One of the main aims of the Germans
in the east is a vast movement behind
Warsaw. embracing Drest-Litovsk, one
OF the strong Russian bases, and civil
ian residents of Warsaw, according to
Petrograd dispatches. are already leav-
ing the city because OF the possibility
Of German occupation. Circulars drop
ped from German aircraft on the Po-
lish capital predict the fall Of Warsaw
by the end of July.
AS an explanation of tho continued
retirement Of the Russian center. a
Petrograd dispatch says: The Rus
slams will refuse to accept serious bat
tie in a country devoid of railways"
In Pursuit Of Russians.
BERLIN, July 6. by wireless to Say
yille.-Gen. Won Linsingen's army is in
full pursuit of tho Russian forces. who
are retiring toward the Nlota Lipa
river, in Galicia, and has forced Thorn
to evacuate their positions in the re-
sions Of Miasto and Krylow. says a
German official statement issued yes
terday.
their offensive in the Argonne, cap
tured 1856 officers and men and took
machine guns and seventy
two mine throwers. They also claim to
have captured a part of the forest
north of Fey-En- Haye. German av-
tators bombarded fort near Harwich,
England, and a British destroyer fio-
tilla, and also attacked the town Of
Nancy. France.