OCR Text |
Show polish- Capital fell as result of midnight attack BERLIN", Aug. 7, via London, 9:05 r. m. According to press dispatches trorn Warsaw now reaching Berlin, the Polish capital fell as the result of a midnight storm of shot and shell against the forts on the south side of the city. A division of Prussian reservists had the honor of making the first breach in thp fortress line and they entered the; city at 3 o 'clock on the morning of August 5- These troops bad boen heavily en-gaged en-gaged for two days and two nights with the" forts, which, though deprived of heaw artillerv. were capable of offering offer-ing highly efective resistance to the infantry. The "forts in Warsaw had been de-stroved de-stroved last winter, when FiHd Marshal" Mar-shal" von Hindenberg's drive from the west threatened the Kussian lines along the Vistula and when the evacuation of , the citv seemed imminent. They were later rebuilt as supporting Doints for infantry and were surrounded with intricate in-tricate " entanglements of wire, ditches and extensive fields of buried mines to explode nnder the feet of storming columns. col-umns. ! The fall of the west front of the fortress fort-ress occurred almost simultaneously with the capture of the southern forts. Mixed divisions of Saxon, Bavarian and WurttemburgiaD troops carried the western forts, so that all four German Ger-man kingdoms were represented in the victory. The troops attacking from the west had at times to do severe fighting in working their way within storming dis- tance of the forts. The Russians resist- j ed stubbornly and retired under cover, of the night. j |