GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 97, 25 August 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

SURRENDER OF NOVO CEORCiEVSK. PN it ill' i'ji*."'- >«.->(!<■(.. rt'"' London. August 23. Colonel Hopington (Uie Times’ military correspondent) says that it the Grand Duke Nicholas deliberately sacrificed Novo Georgievsk, he was disposed to believe that the reason was that time was gained, and the consequent facilitation of the retirement of the armies of the istula was worth the loss of the garrison, especially if the numbers did not exceed thirty thousand. Perhaps there was a second line of troops at Novo Geor'gievsk—an important road, river, and railway centre —which, while the Russians held it, hampered communication between the German armies. An attack on the Narew line was certain. In any case it was a. difficult and deliberate operation. The withdrawing from the Vistula to the Bug of from six or seven more or less victorious hostile armies was carried out as arranged, and without loss. The garrison fought well, as all Russian garrisons invariably do. A fortnight is about the longest time that an ordinary fortress attacked by heavy artillery can withhold. The immediate consequences of the fall improve the communications of the German arm-