NO CHANGE IN FRONT OF WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 7

NO CHANGE IN FRONT OF WARSAW

HEAVY FIGHTING ON THE NAREW TON MACKENSEN HUSTLED BY THE RUSSIANS _By Telegraph—Press Association—Conyriglit . \'. Petrograd, August 2. , Official.—"The moving of large German reinforcements from tho French to the Russian front began in the fourth_ week of July, when General von :Mackensen's- Army- was -severely liustled_ in theVieprz valley and the battles on the Narew were long drawn out. This creates a favourable condition for the Atties' operations in the West. , • "The batteries at Novogoorgievsk dismounted two" German guns on motor Carriages, andfoped repeated attempts to remove them. RUSSIAN OFFICIAIi COMMUNIQUE (Rec. August 3, 10 p.m.) N ■ , , Petrograd, August 3. . A Russian official communique states: "We captured 500 prisoners and £ix machine-guns east of Ponteve3z. 1 "The enemy has. progressed on the right bank of the Narew, after several Hays'stubborn fighting. "The _ enemy concentrated very large forces in the Rozan district, and lattacked in the direction of the railway south of Ostrolenka. An extremely desperate and sanguinary battle continues. , ' ■ "Tho actions on the Vistula, north-west of the Blonie, and south of. ISarakalvaria, terminated in our favour. "We have withdrawn to a more concentrated position near the Ivangorod grossing, after a stubborn engagement. '■ "Our troops on the sector left of the Bug have occupied . a new front iumiolested." GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. '' ■' ■ i 7 ' . Amsterdam. August 2. A German communique states:—"Our troops, after some fighting, occupied Mitau. Tho town was on the whole undamaged. .Wo stormed. height 186, north-east of Suwalki. "Our troops north-west of Lomza reached the Narew, after an obstinate resistance, ana took 1000 prisoners. "We are advancing on the remainder of the Vistula front, and have taken 560 prisoners, i The situation before Warsaw is unchanged. "In the south-western theatre, tho troops under von Woyrscli advanced amid heavy lighting through a "ood district eastward of Podzaneze and captured 1500 men and eight machine-guns'. "The Austrians are closing round Ivangorod. The Russians are still engaging von Mackensen. We gained a success east of Kurow, taking 600 prisoners. The pursuit of tho ouemy north-east of Cliolm continues. "Tho Austrians are across the Bug south-west of Wlaimirwolynski. P ■ ' AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. ' (Rcc. August 4, 0.10 a.m.) . _ London, August 3. 'A Vienna official communique states:—"West of Ivangorod our Traiisyl>anian regiments took, at tho point of the bayonet, eight vantage lwints, -built one above the other. . Tho semi-circle around Ivangorod is becoming fonsiderably narrower. We captured over two thousand men and forty guns. "Austrian infantry stormed the railway station at Novo Alexandria. "The Germans have penetrated the third Russian line at Kurow. "The troops which crossed the' Bug between Sokal and Krylgw are advanv{ng on Wolynsky. ' RUSSIA'S RESOURCES FOR BEARING THE STRAIN. • • Petrograd, August 2. , In the Duma, M. Bark, Minister of Finance, said that notwithstanding enormous expenditure, Russia had succeeded not only in deriving the necessary resources from her national wealth, but had filled the gap due to tho stoppage of tho sale of alcohol. The war expenses in 1915 would reach 7242 million roubles. Tho Government proposed a series of credit operations of which the success , was undoubted, because the_ total of the national savings had been, increased by 1800 million roubles, which proved that the countrj's resources were adequate for tho carrying out of theso operations. ' Their resources ought to be entirely attributed to the people's temperance. ' He insisted that this beneficent, salutary prohibition ought to be maintained after the war.. ... ____ RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR INTERVIEWED PEOPLE SATISFIED WITH .THEIR ALLIES' EFFORTS. (Rec. August 3,-10.55 p.m.) London, August 3. Count" Benckendorff, Russian Ambassador in London, interviewed on the Situation, said that it had Eecn said that the Russian public had hoped that a strong offensive would be made in the Western theatre while the Germans were making their onset in Poland. "This may be so, but not a trace of illfeeling has been'manifested, and the sober view, which considers only military possibilities, has always prevailed. .Nowhere has the colossal effort which Britain and Franco is making in the Dardanelles been more appreciated than jiu Russia, and the temporary retreat in Poland has in 110 way affected the frondr6us solidarity of tho Allies." , IS THE WEST CO-OPERATING WITH THE EAST? (Rec. August 3, 10.55 p.m.) . London, August' 3. The "Times," commenting on a passage in. one of tlio Petrograd official tnestages suggesting the active co-operation of the Allies, expresses the opinion that tb6re must be some lack of co-ordination between tho responsible military authorities in the East and tho West, if the publication of such official .statements are really necessary.. During tho winter and spring tho German armies in the West stood at about 75 per cent. .of their war establishments, jvhich is wprximately two 'millions, and they' quite recently have been

brought up to full war strength. If a few army corps have bei>n transferred to the Eastern theatre, the effective strength of those remaining hi tho West, is still gerater than at the time of the Allies' attacks in the Ghaninaguo and Artois regions, and 011 the British front. There is 110 evidence that the German strength in the West lias been weakened. A very largo share of the recent operations in the East was duo to the Austro-Hungarian armies. "The British and French Governments'ought to issue a statement showing tlio distribution of the Germans in tlie Western and Eastern fronts, and should immediately establish closer practical relations with the Russian staff. Mr. Asquith ought to staFo explicitly what we arc doing, and what we hope to do. "Parliament ought also to be re-summoned immediately, to initiate legislation increasing tlio acreage under foodstuffs. Finally, if we are to retain the confidence of our Allies, wo must declare that $very man of military age will bo liable to military, service." GERMAN TRANSPORT SUNK IN THE BALTIC. CRec. August 3, 10.55 p.m.) 1 . Petrograd, August 3. Officii. —A British submarine sank a German transport in the Baltic. GERMAN -SLANDERMONGERS AT WORK, ' (Rec. August 4, 0.10 a.m.) Petrograd, August 3. Tlie Russian newspaper "Novoe Vreuiya" calls attention to Germany's efforts to sow mistrust among tlio Allies. "Paris and London are swarming with the liaiset's secret agents, who are assiduously pouring the poison of distrust and suspicion in tlio mind of tlio public. 111 France the agents say that a year lias passed an,d the English are still only preparing for war.. Ou of nino hundred kilometres of front tliey hold only a. laughable section of forty or fifty kilometres. Such agitation is clumsy. They are busy producing a certain impression that hitherto the Russians have borne the major burden of the war, and that the losses sustained by our Allies are smaller than tho Russians'. . These cowardly insinuations by German ageuts regarding the disloyalty of our Allies might produce a greater impression in Russia, but they have failed." ■