The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-05
Nothing Seems Able to Stop Successful and Daring Rush of TeutOnic Allies. Citizens Leave Warsaw
EASTERN THEATRE SEES HARD BATTLES
 BUT FEW CHANGES
Recent Naval Engagement Was In Swedish Waters. Russia Will Send Apology to Swedish Government

London. July 4--t1oi4o D. m)--At a rate estimated at five miles day, General von Macisensen's German forces are stiIl swinging northward In GrIicia and Poland In n colossal and daring endeavor to drive n wedge Into the Russian center and dislodge the Russians from the vistula river and force them back over the Bug. thus splitting the grand duke's forces Into two sections, with thousands of ncrcs Of swamp and march land between them.
 If 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 to suggest that they con template coordinate naval action but it is possible that the sea operations only were a feint.
 In southeast Galicia the Russians arc fighting tenaciouslv and have the advantage of a remarkable series of parallel rivers beyond the Gnila Lipa and the Austro-German advance is like ly to be costly.
 Thus on their two extreme wings the Russian appear to be firm, and where they are retreating, 1t still Is claimed their retirement is orderly and. accom- panied by vigorous rear guard opera tions The~ Austro- Germans advancing in the center, moreover, are getting deeper into a country covered with forests and streams and barren of rail- ways, between the middle Vistula and the Bug-natural advantages to the Russians, military writers here em- phasize. They point out, too, the daily lengthening chain of Austro- German communications, which brings an added burden to the Teutonic allies
 Now In Wild Regions
 Some of the British public think the time has come for Great Britain and France to begin general offensive and force transfer of German troops from the east. but the more conservative military critics think the time is not
  can lend her eastern ally Is to pour into Russia every ounce of ammunition that can be spared without curtailing the necessary supply at the western front. One of the main aims of the Germans in the east Is vast move behind War saw, embracing Brest-Litovsk, one of the strong Russian bases. Civilian resi- dents of Warsaw, say Petrograd dis patches, already are leaving the city because of the possibility of German oecupation Circulars dropped from German air craft on the Polish capital predict Warsaws fall by the end of July.
 As an explanation of the continued retirement of the Russian center. a Petrograd dispatch says: The Russians will refuse to accept serious battle in country devoid of railways"
 Russia has not denied that In the re- cent naval engagement in the Baltic the Russian warships violated Swedish ter ritorial waters and that the situati is not unlike in circumstances the af- fair off the coast of Chile, when British cruisers sank the Dresden. Swedish pa pers comment on the episode in mild tone, assuming that an apology and eX planation will be forthcoming. According to Copenhagen advices the greater part of the battle was fought in Swedish waters, and the crew of the Oestgarns lighthouse had to lie fiat to escape shrapnel