Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-05
Ten Thousand Russian Pris-
oners Taken in Final
Assault on City.
CAMPAIGN CONTINUED
Struggle TO North and South
Of Warsaw May Deter
mine Fate of Garrison.

Berlin, Aug. ). Cby wireless TO
Tuckerton, n. J.l-Warsaw was
taken this morning by German
troops, according to official an
Bouucement made at German army
headquarters.
Yesterday and last night Ba-
rarian troops under the command
Of Prince Leopold broke through
the forts of outer and inner lines
of the city's defenses,
Continuing, the report from
headquarters says:
@The German armies under Gem
erai won Scholz and General Won
GalIwitz advanced in the direction
Of the read between L0mZaz OstroY
and YysskoF and fought a number
Of violent engagements. The brave
and desperate resistance Of the
Russians on both sides Of the road
between 0strov and Rozan WIS
without success.
TAKE 5000 PRISONERS.
Twenty-Five Russian officers
and $3.50 soldiers were taken
prisoner. The Germans also cap
tured ~ machine guns.
~German cavalry yesterday and
the day before defeated in C0ur-
land detachments Of Russian cav
airy at points near Geneze, Birshi
and Onisksshti. 4 total Of 1895
Russian prisoners was taken.
aThe situation nearest to the
north Of Tvangor0d remains un-
changed.
@The campaign is being continued
between the upper Yistula river
and the river Bug. German cav
aIrymen have entered Vladimir
Wolynsk. on the Bug river
Wars Greatest Offensive Move.
The fail Of Warsaw marks the cul
mtnation Of the greatest sustained OF
fensive movement of the Europea-
war Thrice before Teutonic armie
have knocked al it's gates, only to b
deuied by the strength Of its de
lenses and the resistance OF the force
holding it, Apparently impregnabl
In the face of direct attack, it was com
PEELED TO capituIate before the swee
Of a vast movement which threatene
to euCircle the capital and with It tn
Russian armies engaged in the cam
paign of which 1t was the storm cen
ter
From the north, northwest, wesi
south and southeast the Austro-GeT
man forces have been pressing on tn
Polish capital in their combined drIv
70 force the Russians out of Poland
possible break their offensive powe
for an indefinite period by administer
ing a decisive defeat all along the line
The movement may be said to hav
had its inception in May, when III
great Teutonic march through Galici
beean. To get at the Russian armle
IN Poland from the southeast, it frs
was necessary TO clear GaIicia, or th
greater part Of it, Of the troops q
that nation.
How successfully this was accom-
pushed is familiar history. F1el
Marshal von Mackensen's campaign j
Its first important stage culminate
When late in June Lemburg was r5
taken and the Russians were drive
over the Galician border. Then, earl
IN July, the Teutonic forces comm
from the south, halted while prePa
rations we're made for the next stage
the campaign.
A voluminous offensive was oper
ed in the Carpathians. while the troop
attacked from point TO point along tn
east Prussian border and with F1el
Marshal Won Hiudenburg taking tn
offensive along this section Of the q
fensjve front. made determine
drive in the Przanysz region.
In the south they showed grea
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