Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 3

Eastern News

AFTER THE EVACUATION OF WARSAW. United Pbeb# Association. London, August 14. The Drily Telegraph’s Petrograd correspondent says that the worst fury of the storm is over. Fears for the garrison aL Warsaw afo superfluous. It is authoritatively announced that the evacuation was carried out with astonishing fiedlity to -the arranged programme. The retired troops are now eastward of the Miribran-Lomza line, and the position strategically is daily growing stronger and more favorable. The most interesting development has been that between'the Dwina and the Niemen. By-capturing the village of Tpviany the Russians cut the German lino sepevating Ponievitch and Nilkomir." The troops at the latter place are dangerously situated, and it is believed that they are hurriedly retreating. either to re-connect with the troops at Ponievitch, or to join the troops that are against Kovnn. The right flank of the Ponievitch troops is in an exposed position. The operations against' Kovno are extending. Many Poles are employed constructing siege lines, and preparing platforms for the forty-two inch guns and other heavy guns. Kovno is not yet surrounded 1 , while the Russian armies are intact and frco to manoeuvre.

The Morning Post’s correspondent soys that the Germans appear to he definitely held in check, and the Russians are in full command of the situation. The management of the Russian retreat from the Warsaw salient will probably provide a model for future text books on the art of war. It is daily becoming plainer that the Germans are finding themselves short for attempting a victorv fifty or one hundred miles deeper into Russia’s .spapes. 1|

i, The Russian line now runs roilghly from Lomza to Yledava, with a| convex face towards the enemy. The ene. my is astride the railway from Warjym*! near- Malkin, blit “is steadily |ield off further from the railway the-fur-ther north it runs. On the whole the German !suggests that they will possibly find the Russian winter ..before, they succeed in reaching a satisfactory defence line to free their real fighting forces for the Western front.

Tho Spectator says, .that the German left flank is only three "undred miles from Petrograd. It r. w appears possible that the operations in the north do not forhi part a vast enveloping movement, hut aiv the beginning of an attempt to seizi Postgrad by a sudden dash on th. coa.t. road, to which the fleet will "outribute by local command of the s •. Tlxe plan is formidable enough, b. t the Germans are mistaken if Mie> suppose that the seizure of Petrograd will paralyse Russia. Moreover, . the Germans are already two months late and Riga and Kovno are still uncapturod. i

The Daily Mail’s Petrograd correspondent says that it transpires thofc General Mackensen’s effort to brea the Russian line at the Bug neav'y succeeded in cutting off large Russian forces. General Mackenseu forced his way to Vlodava, regardless of cost, and the Russian position was precarious General Alekeff realised the situation and rushed forward a 1 i the available troops and guns with orders that Vlodava must be retaken.

The troops obeyed magnificently, and retook the town. They drove tlie enemy back twenty miles in three days, and are still bolding him, This irresistible wave- of Russia’s bravery must be account'd <Ol3 of tbo most glorious episodes of tbe war.