The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-09
kaiser's Forces Succeed in
Crossing the NiStula Near
Polish Capital.
Won MACkENSEN IS
ADVANCING SLOWLY
Cars Armies Resisting at
Every POint-Drivc on
Riga Defeated.
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Special Cdbie Despaich ~ rHr St>
LONDON. Aug. s.-The fate of the
Russian armies that have retired from
Warsaw and its vicinity rs hourly b.
coming more hazardous.
To-nghts dispatches from Berlin say
that the Germans have occupied Sc
rock. at the confluence OF the Bug
and the Narew. and that they have
reached the Bug north of Scrock and
south ot Wyszkow This means that
they are within five or six miles OF tire
all important Warsaw To Pe,rograd
railroad, which, If cut before the Rus
sian troops have escaped. will mean
th" almost certain development and
capture OF an enormous army.
With Serock in their possession. ad-
ditional German forces are rapidly ap-
preaching the Lom4 i-Ostrow-W, szkow
road This road runs in a northeasterly
direction from Warsaw, Lomza, the
farthest removed town, being seventy
miles away. The Russian forces arc
supposed to have intrenched Themselves
strongly along this line, but even il
they are able to hold the Germans tenn
porarlly it is doubtful II much WIN
be gained unless the Teutons who al
ready have reached the Bug south u
Wyszkow are held.
Meanwhile the fate of Novo Geor-
gievsk. the Nistula fortress north OF
Warsaw, which the Russians have in
sisted can withstand "A four months
Siege, is none too sure. Berlin adyices
say that another of the eight forts
making up the clty's defences has
fallen, which means that but five or
them remain. Noyo Georgievsk has
been held out as a bright spot in tho
gloomy situation that surrounds tho
fall OF Warsaw
To-day's statement from German
headquarters is as follows:
German troops on the Narew are
approaching the Lomza-O Ostrow-Wysz-
kow road South of Wyszkow tho
River Bug has been reached py them
and the town OF SeroCk at the mouth
of the Bug has been occupied Near
! Novo GeorGievsk our siege troops took
the fort of Segrze. Near Warsaw
We gained the eastern bank OF the
Nistula.
/ Southeastern Theatre--Under the
/ pressure of the troops under Gen.
Lieut.. Won Woyrsch tie Russians are
/ retreating in "a easterly direction.
Between the Nistula and the Bug the
/ LETT wing of the armies under Cen
! Won Mackensen has driven back tho
enemy in northerly direction, The
right wing is still fighting in the di.
II recton of the River Wicprz
q The English military critics have been
quick to see Il great peril to the Russian
forces in the news Tonight. which SAYS
that the Germans have reached the Bug
south of Wyszkuw and are heading for
the PetroGrad hallway, only a few miles
away. There Is "A very slight hope held
out IN the possibility that only IA small
force of troops has been left Just east OF
Warsaw to hamper the German troops,
who are seeking to cross the NiStula ar
lraga and elsewhere in that locality,
But this hope is only the slightest, foS
1t is well known that the Germans have
been held here for several days and
/ there is not much likelihood that they
could have been held by any but a con-
! siderable force.
The fact in to-day's news from Ber-
lin that the Germans have gained the
eastern bank of the NiStula near War
saw may indicate that the Russian
troops on 'nlS llhe nave bten greatly
decreased large numbers of them muv-
ing eastward over the Polrograd Rail-
way and thus being saved from tns
German trap.
The Ddiy MaWs rctrograd corre-
spondcnt says:
THE Germans again renewed their
attempts To break through to Ostrow
and so to cut off the retreat Of certain
number OF troops from the Nistula. They
did not succeed in this effort NOW they
are trying as an alternative to force
their way through osshviec toward Elc-
lostok on the main line from WARSAW TO
Petrograd, Here they are also check A
for the present