The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-10

ioll goods lnrOnglng the roads conNergtng on Warsaw. Tn the city
 itself literally tens of thousands of
 homes were broken up instantly. One
 correspondent told of four cases of
 men worth more than $1O00.00O last
 month who are now nearly penniless.
 Day and night gangs of soldiers were
 brislIy stripping league after league of
 copper telegraph wires from the poles The church ,ioUrs were flung open. and
 the ediiccs were crowded with weep
 mg and praying Poles anl Russians. among whom passed the miuistering priests in their gorgeous robes. while
 oloft in the towers the huge bronze bells were unslung lest they become food for the Krupp cannon later on.
 All the church bells. archives. treas ures. gem studded ritualistic imple- mcnts, screens. vestments and ikons are now being carried over the Vistula
 and away to Russia.
 IL is reported that the vault of tn. Church of the Holy Cross in Krakoy- ski street was opened by chopping and that the sacred heart preserved there was removed to Moscow.
 The telephone exchange was disman. tied. The dynamos supplying power to the street ears were removed. as were all wheels and detachable fittings of the cars to be taken to Russia All the crops around Warsaw were de Stroyed when no troops could be spared to garner them. Villages are being raze1fo the ground, and the citys sub urbs are being suRounded with trench. es. Suburban residents were ordered to retire into the city to avoid Injury in the rear guard action. The three Wis tula bridges, including the new Praga bridge, more than mile long and cost ing $6,000000, were lined with sand bags, and wires were set in readiness to explode land mines at the moment the Germans entered Warsaw.
 The newspapers of Warsaw made their last appearance with the issues announcing the evacuation. Then the linotype machines were rooted up from the floors and carted away. Police and soldiers visited every printing estab- lishment and every newspaper office, taking the fonts of type and disman- ting the presses Hardly a ton of cop per fittings was left in the city. All stocks of copper in pipe factories and plumbing shops, copper used for house. hold ware-copper of every kind wher- ever found-was removed. So were the stocks of ironmongers, hospital SUD- plies and officers kits.
 Endless Columns of Vehicles.
 Warsaw knew no stoppage of work fin that week end. The huge postoffice. the banks, the telegraph offices, the law courts and the various municipal departments were busy dismantling their furnishings and packing their archives and portable equipment for i'm transport to Russia proper.
 Through the streets endless columns of laden carts and drays conyerged on the praga and AleXandrovesk bridges across the Nistula, only group of sol diers with their legs dangling over the side distinguishing from the wagon peasants with few sacks of potatoes that containing the banks of rubles in paper money or the irreplaceable records of the law courts.
 After the Warsaw defeat the north ern end of the Russian line was estab- lishcd at Kovno. the key to the rail way system of northwestern Russia.
 Kovno is the central fortress in the Russian northwestern chain of frontier It stands at the contlu- ence of the Niemen and the Niliya riv- CTS. east of central East Prussia Pc trograd lies 550 miles by railroad to the northwest, while behind Koyno and between this fortress and Petro- grad the Russian plain is strewn thick ly with lakes Mitau, Kovno Grodno and Lemberg lie nearly in the same line, north and south, and Kovno forms the northern termination of the line of the Bug and of which Brest Litovsk forms the central fortress.
 The railway from Eydtkuhnen. East Prussia, to Wilma runs through Kovno and at it's terminus joins the trunk line between Warsaw and Petrograd. which the Germans severed. Kovno is a fortress of the first class and has been strengthened ill recent years. It's main defense consists of girdle of eleven forts, surrounding the town in an are with radius of about two and a half miles. The fork of the river junction Is an important feature of the clty's strength. Here 1t is guard ad by three forts in the direction of