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Show WARSAW FALLS! HANDS OFGEBl PRINCE OF BAVARIA LEAP-TROOPS LEAP-TROOPS INTO POLISH CAPT4, ABANDONED BY RUSSIANS Retreating Russians Are Fighting Or Rear Guard Actions in Poland to' Allow Their Main Army to Make Its Escape Intact. The Germans are in posession 'Warsaw, capital of Poland, and i--ithlrd largest city in the Russian t Ipire. Bavarian troops entered i-, ;city Thursday morning, Aug:i,; -' having taken successively the B.'i lines and the outer and inner ( resses of the city itself, the Ru-! only fighting rear guard actions ;i allow their main army i0 ma'r;e escape. While to the Bavarians, coa:L-. ed by Prince Leopold, has fallta honor of taking over Warsaw in ,name of the German emperor azi ; , consort, ho are expected to m :; s state entry within a few days, ; real conquerors are the troops :'-. ing under Field Marshal von H;l-. burg, along the Narew river to ;;; northeast; to the Austro-Gern.; who crossed the Vistula to the .;: of the city, and to the armies of u Austrian archduke, Joseph Ferdiiai; and the German Field jiarsLal v.; Mackensen, which are adva-::;; northward bet-ween the Vistula a:-; Bug rivers. The Russians are fighting Ai-:-ately and stubbornly to cneck progress of these four armies n: have had several successes, itgj heavy losses on their pursuers; t.t they are being steadily pressed I&'l which made the longer occupation o! the Warsaw Polish salient a ha:a::-ous ha:a::-ous undertaking. Even now, although the steaifcrf of the Russian troops and their fer.e counterattacks have gained much valuable val-uable time for them, it is prcoVL;:: cal whether the whole Russian at-will succeed in reaching the ne sitions chosen for it, or whether, i: ;t should get there, it will not fit.d t:.;-positions t:.;-positions turned by the Ausrliis who have crossed the Bug soir.h ; t of Chelru and the Germans un ler Generals Gen-erals von Scholz and von G.;:::, who have crossed the Narew. At the northeastern end of line, the Russian communicant; tn threatened further by Generjl tn Buelow, who is advancing tc-nri Dvinsk on the Vilna-Petreg-nd r-:.-way. Indeed, the Austro-Ge.a; have set three traps to catch and destroy de-stroy the Russian army. None tf them was sprung, but one iS near to closing that Grand B- Nicholas was forced to t-- -' Warsaw and now is fighting with i-his i-his might to prevent the others ft tn cutting off his retreat Thus far he seemingly has tei successful, for although the Getnt--.; claim the capture of a large num: of prisoners, the aggregate is when compared with the initnsnrf forces engaged. In addition the E.-sian E.-sian guns aparently are well on u-way u-way to the rear. The Russians are also prenr::? evacuate Riga, the port on the g'- ' ; that name in the ugrth. The ar::'j of the Germans ten miles souti i-that i-that city already has been the J-? of the civilian population arparttaS- While expressing the fullest u--dence in the future, the Urit's'J c -1' tary critics make no atteii to -r little the achievements of t-;e Tc-tons Tc-tons or the effect their success likely to have in the near east u-the u-the west. . What their next move will !CJ! matter of conjecture. Some m;.t observers believe they will ciB- to attack the Russians in the h '' finally crushing them, a tak it is considered, is rendered o:;; by the lact that the Russians in retreat lay the country waste. ing it necessary for the invaJ-r bring up every ounce of food 11 u"' for their army. O her observers think $?r' be attacked, so as to impress t.;f ; kan states which remain "'' while "still another group lo!'5 big ciTi nsive against the Fr.:iKl1 ish-He'.gian line in the west. the observers are of the i wherever the new operation is it will be on a big scale. , ,j Th' Germans also have ln'-J successes in the west, reMPti!1''" the crest of the line in the V'P portion of the trenches wliicJ French took from them some ago. |