The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-29
Protected As 1t is with It's Own
Forts and Fortified Towns a
Distance from the City.

\ WASHINGTON, July 29.-On
every field where the German armies
are now fighting in the environs of
| Warsaw, great battles have gone be-
fore; for Warsaw has always been
1.-THE chief stronghold for the defense
i OF Poland, the industrial, CONNER
cial, and financial center; as well
as the physical center and the cen
ter toward which all Polish lines
of communication take their way.
The greatest of European conQuerors
have passed that way, and dealt
with Warsaw as one OF the half
dozen most important towns on the
continent AS a military problem
Warsaw is eonscientiously studied by
the leading soldiers OF Europe, and
there are few fields for which the
possibilities haye been better can
vassed. The geography of the coun-
try Immediately surrounding this
great CITY,, the scene of a supreme
test of strengtbs between Teuton
Eand SIav, is described in a BULLETIN
just issued by the National Geogra-
Dhic Society, which reads:
!. "Girdled by formidable plan OF
Notifications and by fortified towns,
which build a circular line around
the metropolis. Warsaw is the best
defended city in eastern Europe. It's
Immediate line of forts are thrown
before it at a radius Of about six
teen miles from the heart of the city.
In the immediate line OF fortified
towns beyond. the Warsaw FORTS
varying from twenty-five to forty
miles in distance from the city, are
Garwolin in the southeast, GroJec
in the south, Skierniewice in the
southwest. Blonie in the west, Novo
GeorgievIsk in the northwest, Pull
/ tusk and Segrje in the north, ana
Praga acrossttha Wistula to the east.
The most, powerful of these fortresses
is Noyo Georgievsk.
Many industrial villages.
! 1.-THE country around Warsaw is
plain, low and nat, intensely Gull
tivated and dotted with many Indus
4 trial villages. This plain stretches
away to the PFussIan frontier. To
/ the south there. are hill clusters.
while In the north, throughout the
region adjoining the confluence of
\ fhe Narew and the Bug with the
VIstula, there are considerable
stretches of tangled and treacher-
GUS marsh land. During the spring
4 and autumn rains. this region FREE
uuently suffers from disastrous
/ foods. The foods now and then
prove to be terribly destructtses
Novo Georgievsk fortress AeB unon
the confluence ps;sthe Buend Wis
! tula, and the swampy stretpAes near
itF are part Of Its sohens OF de-
tense. l
1.-THE vistuIa cleaves through this
district. through fortresses before
Warsaw. through the heaEtsspf the
metropolis, and through RoTtresses
/ t6vIard the German frontter I'M q
broad expanse of between Quarter
and a third of mile in width. Parts
OF the river banks are high, ana
warsaw stands over the Vistula on q
steep terrace. lying between 100 and
lao feet above the river. Six great
Il unkIfnesatravarse the plain to War
saw. connecting thesPoIish city with
4 Petrograd. Moscow, Kiev, DanEig.
Berlin and Vienna. Over these rail-
WAYS and down the broad Vistula
4 almost the whole trade OF Russian
Poland has taken its way through
the first city.
'.All the country before Warsaw
Is an open way Of farm and factory.
While the soils are not very fertile.
hbeinE chiefly clay and deposits. large
crops are raised upon them, crops
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