THE FAIL OF WARSAW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2534, 7 August 1915, Page 5

THE FAIL OF WARSAW

ORDERLY RETREAT OF RUSSIANS

DESPERATE ENGAGEMENTS

HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON THE ENEMY

REJOICINGS IN BERLIN

501 FIGHTING IN Tig

YOSGES

GORIZIA TO BE ABANDONED BY AUSTRIANS

The fall.of Warsaw, predicted for some time past in Russian dispatches, is now an accomplished fact. A Petrograd official message, confirming others of enemy origin, states that tho Russians retreated to' the' cast bank of the Vistula, blowing up all the Warsaw bridges behind them. The retirement was not harrasscd by the enemy. Elsewhere the slow Russain withdrawal for tho Polish salient continues, but at vital points, covering lines of communication, heavy lighting is still the rule.-In these areas the enemy has made comparatively littlo progress. In the Baltic Provinces a German advance on Riga lias been repelled, much Avar material falling into tho hands of the Russians. Following the Russian example, tho Gormans aro proposing to create an autonomous kingdom of Poland. Great rejoicings aro reported in Germany over the fall of Warsaw, but the other sido of tho story is told in reports' which speak of East Prussian towns- overflowing with wounded men, and of expressions of disappointment in tho German ])ress at the delays on tho Eastern front. A stir of battles.-is reported at various points in Franco and Flanders, tho Germans attacking the Allied lines. Except' at one point in Alsace, where.some trenches were captured, the attacks seem uniformly to have failed, and to have cost many lives.-' Further industrial troubles are reported in Belgium in the area of German occupation, and riots due to famine have also occurred. An. appeal for further assistance for the Belgains who remain in their; own country, is made by. Mr. G, K. Chesterton,