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Show WA RS A W FA LLS irfTO HANDS OF GERMANS RINCE OF BAVARIA LEADS TROOPS INTO POLISH CAPITAL ABANDONED BY RUSSIANS. Retreating Russians Are Fighting Onl Rear Guard Actions in Poland to Allow Their Main Army to Make Its Escape Intact. The (lormans are in poseaslon of Warsaw, capital of Poland, and the third largest city In the Russian empire. em-pire. Bavarian troops entered the city Thursday morning, August u. having tuUc-n successively the Blotile lines and the outer and inner fortresses fort-resses of the city Itself, the Russians .,tily lighting rear guard actions to allow their main army to make its escape. While IG- the Bavarians, commanded command-ed by Prince Leopold, has fallen the honor or taking over Warsaw in the name of the German emperor and his outsort, who are expected to make a estate entry within a few days, the real continents are the troops fighting fight-ing under Field Marshal von Hinden-butg, Hinden-butg, along the Narew river to the northeast; to the ' Austro-Oermans, .who crossed the Vistula to the south f the city, and to the armies of tlu .Austrian archduke, Joseph Ferdinand, :ind the German Field Marshal von Maekeusen, which are advancing tiorthward between the Vistula and jiug rivery. The ltuosians are fighting desperately desper-ately and stubbornly to check the progress of these four armies, and have had several successes, inflicting heavy losses on their pursuers; but they are being steadily pressed back, wlili u made the longer occupation o the Warsaw Polish salient a hazardous hazard-ous undertaking. Kven now, although the steadiness of the Russian troops and their fierce counterattacks have gained much valuable val-uable time for them, it is problematical problemati-cal whether the whole Russian army will succeed in reaching the new positions po-sitions chosen for it, or whether, if it should get there, it will not find those positions turned by the Austrians who have crossed the Bug southeast of ('helm and the Germans under Genera's Gen-era's von Scholz and von Gallwitz, who have crossed the Narew. At the northeastern - end of the line, the Russian communications are threatened further by General von Buelow, who is advancing toward Dvinsk on the Vilna-Petrograd railway. rail-way. Indeed, the Austro-Germans have set three traps to catch and destroy de-stroy the Russian army. None of them was sprung, but one was so near to closing that Grand Duke Nicholas was forced to evacuate Warsaw and now is fighting with all his might to prevent the others from . cutting off his retreat. Thus far he seemingly has been successful, for although the Germans claim the capture of a large number of prisoners, the aggregate is small wtien compared with the immense torces engaged. In addition the Rus stan gtms aparently are well on their way to the rear. The Russians are also preparing to evacuate Riga, the port on the gulf of tnat name in the north. The arrival of the Germans ten miles south of that city already has been the cause of the civilian population departing. While expressing the fullest confi dence in the future, tile British military mili-tary critics make no attempt to belittle be-little the achievements of the Teutons Teu-tons or the effect their success is likely to have in the near east and '.he west. What their next move will be , is a matter of conjecture. Some military observers believe they will continue to attack the Russians in the hope of dually crushing them, a task which, it is considered, is rendered difficult by the fact that the Russians in their retreat lay the country waste, making mak-ing it necessary for the invaders to bring up every ounce of food required lor their army. Other observers think Serbia will be attacked, so as to impress the Bal Kan stiites which remain neutral, while still another group looks for a big offensive against the Franco-Brit-tsh-ltelgian line in the west. All of the observers are of the opinion that : herever the .new operation is begun it will be on a big scale. The Germans also have had local 6ticcesses in the west, recapturing on the crest of the line in the Vosges a portion of the trenches which tne French took from them some time ago. Airmen Bombard Strassburg. Paris. A flotilla of Anglo-French aeroplanes on Wednesday Hew over the German city of Strassburg and dropped twenty-five bombs, according to a dispatch from Geneva to the Havas News Agency. Trains Collide in Arkansas. Ozark. Ark. Sixty-one persons wen injured when an eastbouud and ! v.-estbound passenger train of the St ' Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern rail way collided at Poping, five milei west of here. Threatens President. San Antonio, Texas.Charged vlth threatening the life of President Wil-. Wil-. son and also with threatening to kill Theodore Roosevelt, F. 11. Juerkins, 2'j years old. was arrested Wedn-sd iv aud placed in Jail. |
