SEVERE STRUGGLE RAGING AROUND WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 5

SEVERE STRUGGLE RAGING AROUND WARSAW

' FORMIDABLE RESISTANCE BY THE RUSSIANS GERMANS CLAIM TO HAVE CROSSED THE. NAREW The High Commissioner reports:— London, July 25, 6.55 a.m. . "A severe struggle is raging around Warsaw, and the Russians are offerbig a formidable resistance to the German advance. "The enemy claim that they forced tie Narew. between Pultusk and Rozan." ' ' i 1 RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Heo. July 26, 11.45 p.m.) Petrograd, July 26. Offioial.—"On the roads from Shavli and Rossieny the enemy, continues to ■progress in the direction of Pointvege. . ' '"The enemy delivered a series of desperate attacks along the eastern bank of the Pissa, but ho was unsuccessful, and suffered great losses. _ ' "We have repulsed persistent attempts to cross the Narew in the Ostra-lenka-Rozan sector, but the enemy in tlie Rozan-Pultusk sector threw a part of his forces to the left bank of the Narew. "Tlie enemy has delivered barren attacks to the left of the' Vistula, in the direction of Piassetchno. "The enemy was compelled by our counter-attacks to cease the offensive between the Vistula and tlie Bug, except at Grimbeclioiv, where we repulsed several attacks. The enemy's attempt to establish himself on the right bank of the Bug failed."- , GERMAN OFFICIAL. COMMUNIQUE, Amsterdam, July. 25. A German communique says;— • "We have captured Russian trenches at Jesia, south of Kovno, and also in the vicinity of Dembowo, six miles north-east of SJuwalki. "We have crossed the Narew along the entire front from south of Qstrolenka to Pultusk. Our troops south-east of Pultusk are approaching- the Bug, while, despite tenacious opposition, we reached the Nasielsk-Gzovo line. "We have occupied several positions west of Blonie and stormed Ustaiiow, Lbiska. and Jazdarzew, south of Warsaw. "The situation in the south-eastern theatre is unchanged," AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. . (Rec. .July 26, 11.45 p.m.) Amsterdam, July 26. 'Ail Austrian official communique states: "The enemy's attempt to cross the. Bug"River south of Krylow (Galicia), failed." PRECAUTIONARY) MEASURES AT RIGA. l Petrograd, July 25. I- ■ and depots at Riga are moving plant and goods to tho interior. BATTLE SITUATION REMAINS OBSCURE THE STRENGTH OF THE ENEMI'S ONSET. "■ » (Rec. July 26, 9.35 p.m.) - London, July 26. The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent says that the.situation remains obscure. The battle line is advancing and receding at different points, neither decisively nor successfully. It is authoritatively computed that the recent blows wore inflicted 011 Russia by seventy Gorman and fbrtj'-eight Austrian divisions, four German and eleven Austrian cavalry brigades, and large bodies of Austro-German Landsturm. Seven hundred and fifty thousand of the enemy are between the Vistula and tlie Bug, two-thirds of those being German. _ Four army corps-are operating against the Novo Georgievsk-Ivangorod line. Neither of these is besieged, nor yet is the heavy artillery. It is thought possible the enemy will endeavour to contain these fortresses with a curtain of troops, reserving the main forces for field operations. It is hinted that the advancing enemy at Kovno will soon be stubbornly, resisted. . '