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Show 14 I'AGKS FIVE CENTS llsr FILLS TO IMVJLDERS First Phase of Great Drive Against Polish Capital Is Brought to Dramatic Climax With Capture of Important Railroad Center by the Austro-Germans. FEW DETAILS OF FIGHT RECEIVED Indications Are, How ever, That the Grand Duke Found It Necessary Neces-sary to Retire in Order That He Might Escape Enemy's Lines Drawing Draw-ing Together in Rear. PETEOGEAD, Aug. 9, via London, Lon-don, Aug. 10, 3:11 a. m. The following fol-lowing official communication was Issued tonight: A German fleet of nine Dattle-ships Dattle-ships and twelve cruisers, with a -large number of torpedo boats, persistently per-sistently attacked the entrance in the Gulf of Riga Sunday, hut everywhere were repulsed. "A cruiser and two torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyers were damaged." LONDON, Aug. 9, 9:03 p. m. The Austro-German armies made fresh progress today in their campaign against tbe Russians. The occupation of fortresses at Praga, reported bv Berlin, brings to a dramatic climax the first phase of the drive at the Polish capital and the region re-gion of eastern Poland of which Warsaw War-saw is the dominating center. Praga is essentially a part of the capital, with great railway stations on the roads running to PetrogTad and Moscow. Few details have been received of Grand Duke Nicholas's final stand at Praga. but the indications are that the withdrawal with-drawal of the Russians became imperative im-perative to escape from the German Hues gradually drawing together in their rear. A.pex of Letter V. Warsaw now is the apex of a vast letter V, the arms of which are the River Narew on tbe north and the Vistula on the south. The German lines spread along these rivers are contracting contract-ing graduallj' as the armies in the north and those in the south approach each other. ThC' strip of territory acroBS which the Russians may withdraw to safer positions now is hardly more than thirty miles across. Besides this enveloping movement immediately to the east ' of Warsaw Berlin reports a steady hammering at the great Russian fortresses of Kovno aDd Lomza, the chief significance of which is their proximity to the lines of railway communications to Petro-grail. Petro-grail. Novogeoi gievsk is the only place west of Warsaw at which a Russian garrison remains, and its fall seems imminent. im-minent. Hotbed of Disorder. The attitude of the Polus toward th new German regime is arousing deep interest, as the occupation of Warsaw . unites for the first, time three branches of the Poles heretofore divided among Russia. Germany and Austria. Under the Russian regime Poland has been a hotbed of disorder, and it remains to V,e seen whether control of this occupied occu-pied territory will be as difficult a problem prob-lem lor Germany as it has been for Russia. Rus-sia. INVADERS' ATTACK SHOWS SIGNS OF LOSING IMPETUS (Special Cable hy ArrniiKenwit wttli London DiIIt Telegraph and International News Service, j T'KTKOGRA D, Aug. 9 The views hold in higher military quarters here are well founded that any dangers wnl.-b may have existed for the safety of the is-lula'bave is-lula'bave now passed. The troops are now takintr up the new positions alloted i hcni without precipitation and at the moment their rear is nor tlveatened. I Moreover, there are signs that the im-pen;lj im-pen;lj of the Austro-German attack is weakening and these signs multiply every day. The failure of the enemy to repeat re-peat Friday's attempt to rush Kovno and Ossowiec is held to indicate that lie (Continued on Page Tliree.) JfllSTB HlllWS OF run n -b of Wrs,w' ImPrt- Railway Center, Falls yo Hand of Austro-Gernians. Austro-Gernians. '. ': ' . ,Us nv:-. Vl'tm of . ? l'".( i '( rui'ks of lli :, -v '';.; r!ii;.'i'V hi Kovno. I ' ,:. y u !t iiw i v,t v the eonumutl , wan-sin. -" - 1 1. ; . fV'v,visu-.l when thry K j ,.;;, t,fv vill Mly i i . -i ( A,hi v.,-,;.;.'! 1 once tl-.at I -rZZlX ST'th Baltic :,vst lo Milan ami is !' "J ;.'i-a-'o'i to resume tti i A ! is believe! to hav - 1 tY-orve erv. which consists ' 1 4i- 1 i'- 'o sirerxthe-n - '.','.. ,r.-k tt of Por:- ' ; i.'i.twn of trio Dvtr.sk-r Dvtr.sk-r ' T!- Kittl In till hitter !" 1 "v t'.ie NiHnce, but ' ': . :t 7'-he Gc::rr.ns .lurirc the ---'"j v;' for winch there. "sj,", i,if I'O hcA.!.y. ; ' of t-ie enemy eon- ' i. ti e- Nvew Ime- a:ui on : " '. '-ii'ewrii .(on PMn , '-'..'-j. In ne 1st it of these two '.-.'re latest tliluinis. on the ii beer, m favor of the Rub- |