| Show German Troops March Into W Warsaw ars w j li I l E Evacuation 1 Conies Comes umes 1 Ph Too I 00 Late 1 to Save Saver C t n J r Grand D Dukes Duke's kes ke's Army London Declares i 1 BERLIN REPORTS THAT HAVE TAKEN IV AN GO ROD FORTRESS f Invaders Are Now Forty Miles South of Riga and About One March From the Town Prince Leopold and His Bavarians Enter Polish Capital Wi With Their The r Allies li After Breaking Through the Forts of the Outer uter and Inner Defenses BERLIN Aug 5 by wireless to Tuckerton N. N J. J J. J. Warsaw w wits was s taken this mo morning g by German troops a according cording to an official official cial cia announcement made at German army headquarters Yesterday and last Jut night Bavarian troops under UDder the command command com corn mand of Prince Leopold broke through the forts forti of the outer oute and inner lines of the city's city defenses where the rear guards of the Russian troops n made ad a tenacious resistance Continuing the report of headquarters says The German armies under General von Scholz arid and d Gener General General Gen Gen- er eral l von Gallwitz advanced in the direction of the road between Lomza and and fought a number of viol violent t. t engagements The brave and desperate rea resistance of the Russians Rus Ru ians on both sides of the road between and Rozan was without success I two Twenty Ru Russian sinn officers and d soldiers w were re taken I prisoners The Th Germans also alao captured se seventeen enteen machine e guns German cavalry yesterday y and the tb day day before defeated in Courland land detachments of Russian cavalry ry at t points poin near Ge Gep Geneze ize ie and On A total of 2225 Russian prisoners was taken The situation near and to the north of rem remains in unchanged The campaign is being continued between the upper Vistula river and the Bug river German Gennan cavalrymen have entered on the BugIn Bug I In the V osge there have been new engagements nth isar H Iho 1 The fall of Warsaw marks the culmination of the greatest sustained offensive movement of the European war Tl Thrice rice before before before be be- fore Teutonic armies have knocked at its gates only to be denied by the strength of its defenses and the resistance of th the forces holding it Apparently impregnable in the face of direct att attack ck it was was compelled compell d to capitulate before the sweep of a vast movement which threatened to fo encircle the capital and with it the Russian armies engaged in the campaign of which it was the storm center northwest west south and southeast the Austro- Austro from the n north rth G German forces have been pressing up upon n the Polish capital in in their combined drive to force torce the Russians out of Poland and j pos if-pos Possible Pos sible to break their offensive power for an indefinite period by bya a decisive defeat all along the line u I u I The movement mo may be said to have had its inception in May when the great Teutonic march through Galicia began To get at th the Ru Russian sian armies in Poland from the southeast it first was necessary to clear Ga Ga- Ucla or the greater part pi of it it of the troops of ot that nation How successfully this was ac accomplished om pUshed Is familiar history Field Marshal von Mackensen's campaign in its first important stage culminated when late lato in June Loin Lorn- berg was retaken retal and the Russians were driven over the Galician bor bor- der Then early in July the tho the Teutonic Teutonic Teutonic Teu Teu- tonic forces coming up from the south Bouth halted while preparations ms were made for lor the next stage of ot the campaign Signs o of the tho form lorm this was to take soon were apparent Great armies I I had been assembled to the north and I these early in July began pressing down upon the Russians from that direction A vigorous offensive was opened in the Balt Baltic provinces tho the Teutonic troops attacking from point to point along the East Prussian n border and with Field Marshal von on Hindenburg directing the general op operations operations along this section of or the fighting front a a. determined drive bo b gnu gan I In the region Pound Way Toward City Simultaneously the Teutonic armies in the south showed reawakening reawakening ening activity Field Marshal von Mackensen resumed his advance his bis German forces Corces working with tho Austrians to Inflict smashing blows upon the Russians from this three three- tion Step tep by step the German Austro hosts pounded their way toward tho the city from tho the north and from the south while on the west activities along the line Une of or that Continued on page 3 2 L I 4 iC GERMAN TROOPS Continued from page 1 had bad BO long held off the Germans in that section were resumed Before the tho pow power r 0 of the engaged In this this' encircling movement mo the ar- ar utes of Greo L bake Nicholas began t 16 to fall tall back L to the north of Warsaw Wl STUB occupied and the German armies wept swept OIL on fl By July 19 they had forced the Russians back to the line of ot the Narow river and pushed their way to within twenty miles of their goal The fortress of was taken and d the for tor- atlon tho the key to Warsaw on the north was approached To the south Radom was was occupied and the Russian Rus alan sian lines of or communication In the LUblin region threatened S German Geman Lines Linea Tightened Then began a a. tightening of tho the German lines around the the capital The forced their way past the line southwest o of the city pushed across the Narow river below and the battering at tl the fortified gates of the city started In earnest on Tuesday of at this w week by Bavarian troops under command command com corn mand o of Prince Leopold of Bavaria From Jb be beginning of the war warS war the salient la the e Russian line Une formed byj bend d necessary to include i Warsaw and a large part of Poland had hd b a thorn thom in tn the flesh sh of f the Raulan military authorities They shoved shed this by their desperate and at t. t times partially successful a nt- nt t to straighten their fighting front Before Jetor the they could advance at the enter center and move west from War ea saw BOW th th win wings must mut be brou brought ht up BO so a as to prevent successful flanking ce fIc Swept Back in tn Fa East t Prussia on the tl north and andin in on the the south thi Ith Russian armies began to push forward foward Twice in East Prussia they j were were swept back but be before foro last win win- iter set let In Tin the they had succeeded in l pressing re aln their way through Gallela and land were nearing hearing Cracow which faal is fa al almost lt directly on a a. line tine south atthe of at the Polish capital In the spring however after l had fallen into their hands handa and the victorious Russian armies were threatening the German border and a an a In invasion aslon of Hungary came the or organized German Gennan Au movement movement move moves ment which recaptured the great fortress and swept the tho Russian lines linos farther east cast in sections than they IlIad been In early in the tho war The TheW W Warsaw salient thus thu exposed hazardously hazardously haz has from front the south was additionally additionally addi add threatened by the German advance in the Baltic provinces I which acted not only as u a supporting g movement to the flank attack on on Warsaw but threatened to cut off oft the ther r retreat treat of ot tho the Russian armies |
