FLIGHT FROM WARSAW.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 5

FLIGHT FROM WARSAW.

• CONDITION OF THE CUT " I A GERMAN ACCOUNT. 1 Received August 10, 1.23 a.m. London, August !). The Berliner Tageblatt saya that when the main (light from Warsaw elided a ghastly silence reigned, broken only byi the thunder of cannon. Many of the streets were barricaded, and only Red Cross sisters and members of the Civil Guard were to be seen. Above, Ule steady hum of 'German aeroplanes the lire brigade was heard hurrying to every quarter, extinguishing lire,3. Executions were daily conducted at the citadel, and death sentences were placarded wholesale. The mob plundered empty houses and factories, and secret police were busy at every corner, Thousands of wagons, piled with wounded, whose groans were awful, quitted the city. The terror of tile night was heightened by the burstins of star shells.

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. STUBBORNLY RETREATING. Received August 0, 7,30 p.m , Petrograd, August !). Ofliciai: Tu the direction of Riga wc dislodged the enemy from the region between the Dwina and Eckan. Fighting continues without essential eiiunye cast of Ponseviwesz. The Germans hive not renewed their attack 011 Kovuo and Ossiewic;:. The enemy: is making a continuous vigorous attack from the Narew line along the whole front, great forces being directed against the Loiwa-Os-trow i-ector. There is obstinate rearguard lighting 011 the left of tlie Wieprz. During counter-attacks we made prisoner some hundreds on the left, bank of the Bug, and we successfully exercised prcssuere on the enemy's advance guard between the rivers Tourir and Lonza, along a wide front. KAISER'S SICKLY CANT. "RELYING ON GOD." Amsterdam, August 8. The Kaiser, acknowledging the King of Wurtembui'g's congratulatory telegram, said: ''We can sec in the fall of Warsaw a significant step in (lie road along which the Almighty, by His grace, has led in. Relying 011 Him our glorious it'voops continue ti* light 'to an honorable peace." A REPORT FROM RIGA.

Petrograd, August 8. A telegram from Riga reports that much excitement was caused by the arrival of an officer from the front, whu galloped through the streets and announced in the crowded parts that the Germans were being held. RUSSIANS HOLD PRAGA. Berne, August 8. A Berlin telegram state-; that the Russians firmly] bold I'iaga, a suburb of Warsaw across the Vistula, and artillery duels are proceeding across the river.