APPROACHING THRUST AT WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 5

APPROACHING THRUST AT WARSAW

KAISER TO BE PRESENT GERMAN COLUMNS BEING RUSHED TO THE} : FRONT Er Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright > * , *> < i(• Amsterdam, July 16, • P&e Kaiser is gomgto Poland for m approaching thrust at Warsaw. m. n j ",J . Patrograd. Julr 16. lhe German advance at Prasnysz is organically connected with the South' ern operations; ' . Von Hindenburg is row rushing columns along the northern tributaries of the Narow, where it is .estimated that hve German army corps are attacking with two and a, half corps of cavalry, based on Mlawa. -His objective is Novo' Georgievsk, while von Mackensen is aiming at Brest Litovsk. Tho Russians now on inner lines of communications, have the advantage in railways, and can throw their troops from one part of the front to another. Von Hiiidonbum has a.splendid railway, which might give him success in tho first stage, but von Mackensen is hampered by badly-roaded country. - b 3 Russian officers state that the German soldiery is "ragtail and bobtail lot" compared with the sturdy fighters sacrificed in the firs; sis months. Their ages vary from sixteen ;to over fifty. • Ar. officer writes that two Russian regiments, m the recent retreat, fell upon «. body of Germans .with the bayonet, aud simply hacked ten thousand of them to pieces.. . SUCCESS OF THE GERMANS IN: THE BALTIC. PROVINCES A' Berlin communique issued to-day states:— . Par'Si Jul; 16. _ "In the Baltic provinces our troops crossed the Windawa; north of Pols, wajany, and are gomg in an easterly direction. 1 " south of Prasnysz^ 61 pr ° sreßS bj: victorious fi Shting south-west of Eolno an,d RUSSIANS TAKE .UP A CONCENTRATED POSITION* jfßec. July 18, 3.40 p.m.) Official.—"The enemy occupied the right bank of theXSaSVIW and continued in certain sectors to advance eastward. 1 "Our troops between the Pisa and Orjitz have withdrawn to take un a concentrated position on the right bank of the Narow.'-'- ■ ® AUSTRIAN. CAPTURES NEAR THE DNIESTER., '» . .. - , Amsterdam,' July 17. An Austrian official message says: "We captured 12 officers, 1300 men/and three machine guns northward of the Dniester/'- J a 'ffHE OPINIONS OF A MILITARY) CORRESPONDENT; ("Times" and Sydney "Sun"- Services.)' ' Colonel Repington, tho military correspondent of "The Times"' A'ustrians and Germans will shortly resume the offensive on the Russian fmrft They are now resting their troops and repairing their damages, prenaratorv to a new move forward, , ' r 1/0 * . FOUR/ARMY. CORPS ON THE MOVE, (Rec. July 18, 3.30 p.m.) x ™ cti Amsterdam, July 17. Tour army corps from Thorn, consisting of Pomeranians, Prussians and Schleswigers, are going' to the Lowicz-Prasnysz front. ' EFFECTIVE WORK OF THE RUSSIAN CAVALRY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENT GERMAN OFFENSIVE, .("Times" and! Sydney "Sun" Sorvices.) (Eec. July 17, 7. p.m.) London, July 16 "The Times" correspondent with the Russian forces says the effective work' of the Russian cavalry was largely responsible for tho German movements in Galicia. ■ The enormous captures of prisoners, plus the advance, thrcatenine the Hungarian plains, brought the condition of Hungary' considering an independent peace, resulting in the entire collapse of Austria, and forced the Germans to come to the roscuo with a colossal stroke in Galicia,