Show WARSAW FORCES OUT OF DANGER DANCER I Withdrawal of Russian Troops From Front After Three Weeks' Weeks Battle Believed i to Indicate Success Success' of Efforts to Save Sav Armies I I G GERMAN ADVANCE ACROSS VISTULA RIVER DELAYED Eastern Bank Held by Part of G Garrison After Evacuation of City to Facilitate Escape of Other Forces Von Forces Von Buelow Makes Progress in Baltic ITALIANS SCORE VICTORY LONDON I Aug 7 The Tho Tho German GermaniA i-A i report tonight claims that the resistance of the Russians has I broken between Lomza and the mouth of the Bug river Thus whether the Russians have been een defeated or have havo fallen back voluntarily to a new position one of the bitterest battles that has been heen een fought sin since the commencement com corn of tho war has ended For just three weeks the Germans under the tho supreme command of ot Field Marshal von have been trying trinE to force this front front which us usually us- us is Is referred to as ae the and to cut off th the Rues a 1 armies in their retreat at from Warsaw That not until thre dis thA hA A AVA Inti nf n u. u Warsaw has t this ls line given Wa way lea leads leade British critics to the conclusion that the Russian withdrawal was a a. voluntary voluntary volun volun- tary one and that Grand Duke Nicholas commander chief of ot the Russian forces certain of the safety ty of his Warsaw arsaw army has abandoned his struggle struggle gle gin on the ibe Narow Check nt There is little change In the tho other sections ot of tho the Polish salient The Tho Russians arc still holding the eastern bank of the Vistula including Praga a C suburb of Warsaw and at least are delaying the German advance across the river while In the southeast neither General von nor Archduke Joseph Ferdinand has made much progress being still little more than twenty miles north of ot tho the Lublin Lublin- Cheim railway which the they crossed a week eek ago The resistance which tho the Russians ns are aro offering here and that t which has delayed General von on Hin- Hin denburg In the north have kept the tho roads clear cleal for the escape cape of the tho Russians Rus flue rians Fians from tho the inner encircling operation operation operation opera opera- tion Von Buelow ATm Alm Army Advances Advance In Courland and Kono General von Buelow with men mon 15 Is carrying out sweeping flank lank movements much on the Ufe same Sante lines as those with which General VO von Kluck opened the tho campaign campaign cam- cam I In the tho west thou though h in different circumstances and In ina a much more difficult difficult dif dif- country countr General von Buelow's left Iett wing winS which Joins with tho the separate separate sepa sepa- rate arm army operating south of ot Riga ha hamade has made a further advance toward tile tUe Russians retreating across the Jara Jars river while his right is approachIng approach- approach Ing which accord according InS to report I tho the Russians already are evacuating Hereafter General von yon progress pros ress resa Is like likely to bo be slower Between the Jara and the there thero are aro great swamps while between Kono I and Vilna his second objective lies I Ithe the river to the south and the tho and many other streams to the tho north and cast all of which lend them- them el eg to defense Tho The besieged fortress of ot ov geor- geor at the thc Junction of ot the Vistula and v Nale rivers tho the most wester westerly place retained b by the Russians still holds bolds out although the Germans claim to have havo captured one fort There has been some Home lI el lively fighting In th the western theatre but nothing of outstanding Importance has lias been re re re- ported J According to nn an unofficial report the Italians have hav rendered themselves masters of or the summit of Monte Monto San dominating Gorizia the fall of N h city is expected This would open the Hie road to Trieste |