Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

DESIGNS ON WARSAW. GERMAN COUP TEMPORARILY I ABANDONED. \ SUCCESSFUL RUSSIAN STRATEGY United Press Association. (Received 9.15 a.m.) New York, July 27.

A Petrograd message states that General Von Hindenburg and General Yon Mackenson are both threatened with complete defeat in their contemplated coup on Warsaw, the German force temporarily abandoning the forward movement, as it had been forced to protect its flank by curling back to the tongue of the column to lend effective? resistance to the Russian blows, which have weakened the line. Experts say that the situation and conditions are strikingly similar to those obtaining before Paris when General Von Kluek's army was saved from annihilation by rapid doubling brick.

The Russians give some idea of the enormous forces brought up by the A astro-German command for the attack on Warsaw. There are 118 divisions of infantry and artillery, 15 cavalry brigades, ,and "large bodies of the Austro-German Landstrum." Roughly, and no other computation is possible, this works out at about two millions of men. Of these the account places 750.000 between the Vistula and the Bug, and 120,000 on the Ivan-gorod-Xovo Georgievsk line, leaving us to locate the balance of 1,200,000 anywhere between Novo Georgievsk and Kovno, and possibly in Galicia between Sokal and the Dneister. This doo3< not, of course, disclo.se the disposition of the enemyj'B armies with any clearness.