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Show K LIE IS BROKEN IS REPORT OFJERLIN German Official Statement State-ment Declares Resistance Resist-ance Between Lomza and Mouth of the Bug River Has Been Shattered Shat-tered by Forces Under Von Hmdenburg. GREATEST FIGHT OF WAR ENDED British Critics Believe Withdrawal Is Voluntary Volun-tary and That Grand Duke Nicholas Gave Up Position Only After Assured That the Main Army Is Safe. LONDON Aug 7 10 p my The German Ger-man off cial report tonight claims thab the resistance of the Russians has broken between Lomza and the mouth of the Bug nver Thus whether the Russians havQ been defeated or have fallen back voluntarily to a new position, one of the bitterest battles that has been fought since the commencement of the war has ended. For just three weeks the Germans under the supreme command of Field Marshal von H ndenburg have been trving to force th s front which usually is referred to as the Narew and to cut off tbe Russian armies in their retreat from Warsaw That not until three days after the evacuation of Warsaw has this line given way leads British critics to the conclusion that the Rus sian withdrawal was a voluntary one and that Grand Duke Ivicholas commander com-mander in ch ef of the RusBian forces certa n of the safety of his Warsaw army has abandoned his struggle on the Narew Little Change Elsewhere. There is little change m the other sect ons of the Polish salient The Russ ans are still holding the eastern bank of the Vistula including Praga, a suburb of Warsaw and at least are delaying the German ad ance across the river while In the southeast ne ther General von Mackenaen nor Ar hduke Joseph Ferdinand has made much prog res" being still little more than twenty miles north of the Lublin Chelm rail vay wh ch thev crosses a weeK ago The re stance which the Russ anB are offering here and that wh ch has de layed General von Hindenberg in the north have kept the roads lear for the escape of the Rus ans from the in ner encircling ope at on In Courland and Kovno General von Buelow with 340 000 men is carrying out sweeping ilank movements much on the same lines as those with which General von Kluck opened the cam pa gn in the west though in d fferent c rcumstances and n a much more dif f cult country General von Buelow s left wing which joins with the sepa rate army operat ng south of R ga-has ga-has made a further advance toward Dvinsk the eRussians retreat g across the Jara river while h s right s approaching ap-proaching Kovno which accord ng to report the Russ ans already are evacu ating Progress Slower Hereafter General von Buelow a progress s likely to ue slower Botween the Jara and the D nsk there are great swamps while between Ko uo and Vil na h s second objective 1 es the N e man n er to the so th and the Sventa and many other streams to the north and east all of wh ch lend themselves to defense The bes eged fortress of No ogeor-gievsl ogeor-gievsl at the mnct on of the Vistula and Narew nvers the most westerly place reta ned by the Russ ans still holds out although the Germans claim to have captured one fort There has been some Hvelv f ghting n the western theater but noth ng of o tstand ng importance has been reported re-ported Accord ng to an unoff c al report ths Ital ans ha e rendered men sel es mas ters of tho sun m t of Monte San Mi chele dom nat ng Gonz a the fall of which c tv is expected Th s would open the road to Trieste FORT DEMBE, NEAR WARSAW, IS TAKEN BY THE GERMANS RJNVg To c4pm o t on n nf he W fo f a o h ht bank of th 1 ha c a) t red b Cor an troops a o d l, to an of (Continued on Page Three,) -Iffilli LIS 3, OH BUG PER Hf, CLAIM in Official Statement ;;; Rfports Notable Victory ; (or Troops Under Field Marshal Hindenburg. Tft'1 "e) 'rTToai siv,,n o;,t ti,i'a.v tlu fjn'y hoaaii.'irtors staff. ,v'"tfn af the stat.-nuuit follows: Hf T ' V ,-.o: the:it: Ksst of 1 .wifovh th Kussiaus retreated V r;t,ri, or.mired and two mart. ma-rt. i:.S"n "of Generals von S.-hol: Ml TvA'daUwitJ have, alter stub-" stub-" .v Hi. broken tho resist- k:3 en'erav near 1-ouiza and n. of the Rivet BuS V' -Tf to-aJ results of the lighting l . V"-t 1 to August t amount "V-v-v-iive officers and more - ' '1? 0 ecu briBR taken pris-g;x pris-g;x cannon, eight bomb-I bomb-I JIrs'"aEd sixty-nine machine si'so fere captured. 'r-e troop investing oyo- ."-vsk have penetrated as far :;-Ve'xirew river. fe-t of lVmbe was taken "; j.'- .;e south. The Vistula, as far " , i .'kJw. has been reached. Varssx the position is tin- - M-.yi The Sttssians continue to " y-"ri tie town from the eastern ,5f o: the Vistula. C r airships dropped bombs on - ..f i.wsv stations "of Nowominsk C;-"th?" southeastern theater: . 5:7: siJ north of Ivangorod the rji: -i-ion MESiss unchanged. ' ' iiTxaz the Bug and Vistula the .'--ran troops stormed the enemy EOar Kuskowola. southeast ) l:":3r:ow and northeast of Lent- j-d forced the enemy to evac-.C evac-.C t:5 positions there. |