Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-02
WARSAW YETHELD
| BY RUSSIAN ARMY,
| PETROCRAD THINKS
No Direct News, But Evidence
Increases That Cars Forces
Are Withdrawing.
APPEAL TO THE ALLIES
TO STRIKE IN. THE WEST
Drive Against Polish Capital De-
clared to Create Favorable 0p.
portunity" for Blow. u
ENORMOUS TEUTONIC LOSSES
Dispatch From Innsbruck Says the
APPEAL TO THE ALLIES
TO STRIKE IN THE WEST
ENORMOUS TEUT0NIC LOSSES

GENEVA, Switzerland, August
2, 1890 am, via Paris.-The
Geneva Tribune has published a
dispatch from its correspondent at
Innsbruck, Austria, who says
that to the east of Warsaw the
Germans have ceased their at
tacks, but to the northwest terri
BILE fighting is still going on.
Polish Capital Still Held.
LONDON, August 2, II:53
AMINO direct news from War
saw has been received here today.
While there are increased indi-
cations that Grand Duke Nicholas
is withdrawing his army from the
Polish salient, there is evidence
that the capital still is in posses
sion of the Russians, since Petro-
grad correspondents of Warsaw
papers were directed to send ac-
counts of the duma opening for
the issues of Monday morning.
Russia Looks to Allies.
That Russia has not entirely aban.
doned hope of a diversion in the west
which would relieve the tremendous
pressure exerted upon her by the
Austro-German armies is shown by the
announcement from Petrograd that the
German forces before Warsaw have
been heavily reinforced from the west.
thereby creating favorable conditions
for active operations by our allies"
There has been heavy fighting on the
Narew front. where the Germans have
made some progress in the desperate
battle which is raging between the
Narew and the Ole rivers
Latest reports from Vienna are that
the Russians are retreating further
east, pursuing German regiments hav-
ing passed through Chelm.
obscurity Greatest Need"
ut is impossible to state exactly
what is happening on the eastern front.
as obscurity is the most pressing need
of the Russian army" says the Petro-
grad correspondent of the Daily Mail.
.'in regrouping and shifting its posi-
tions. This rearrangement of forces is
in the hands of Gen. Yanushevice, chief
of Grand Duke Nicholas staff"
The capture of Warsaw has not yet
been accomplished, according to the
telegraph, and the deliberate Russian
withdrawal is an encouraging feature
of the situation.
The Russians have not yet been de-
feated or anything like it, says tho
Chronicle, which adds that the Rus
slams are inflicting fearful losses on
the attacking Germans.
Country Being Denuded.
pETROGRAD, August 2. via London.
The military critic of the Rech, in
describing the recent campaign, says:
First came the battle on the Lublin
front. then a period of calm; after that
our troops proceeded to the new posi-
tions assigned them. 1t is evident that
the evacuation was followed by the
complete denudation of everything that
might assist the enemy.
"Precisely so will be the abandon
ment of other points whose evacuation
may be required by our military plans
IT will be equally gradual and cautious
as the evacuation of Lublib. Our ar
mics, executing the required maneuver.
at the same time will take steps to
guard il against interference by the
enemy.
"in the Warsaw region the enemy 10
meeting with steady opposition from
our res- guards. At Piaseczno and
Cora Kalwarya, and, finally, at Blonie.
our armies beat off the enemy's efforts
to enter Warsaw. This means that the
hour has not come Tor the supreme
Vistula line. That hour will strike
only when extreme necessity Is Joined
with the general strategic situation"
Capture of Lublin Costly.
GENEVA, Switzerland, August l. via
Paris. August 2-The Tribune prints the
following dispatch from its Innsbruck cor
respondent:
.'rhe capture of Lublin cost Gen.
woyisch 10000 men In killed. wounded
and prisoners Four miles north of Lublin
the Russians are fighting fiercely, disput-
ing every foot Of ground while covering
their retreat
"In an advance Of seven miles with
seyen army corps Field Marshal Won
Mackensen lost $4,000 men.
1.-The army massed from Lowics to
Ostrowiec has begun an advance upon
Iyan1orod and Novo Alexandria, the
evacuation of which was commenced by
the Russians Friday night. according to
the Germans.
s.The Germans have dispatched more
than 100 trainlOads Of ammunition from
Radon and LodE toward Warsaw since
July %.
ssThe Russians who attacked south ol
Prxasnysz killed 5000, wounded 5000 and
took prisoners 1900 Of the sth German
Army Corps."