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Show I WARSAW IS STILT II HFin RY RUSSIA Hjljl' Vienna, via Amsterdam, Aug. 3. Hi i Leczna, In Poland, has been captured H, by Von Mackensen's Austro-German HlKl array, according to an official state-Hi'! state-Hi'! hi ment, iBSued by the general staff to-H to-H nil III I ' H i night I London, Aug. 3, 10:20 p. m. The , Hllll stubborn resistance which the Rus- 1 'II ' ' slans are offering to the Austro-Ger- iVflli ' roan and tne slowness with which the HUflDil'! forces of the invaders have been able , 1 to move during the last few days I I lllll has led to tne bcIief ln sotne quar" ; HMJ ,'; ters that the German supply of am- J munition is beginning to feel the of- i iWlllfl '" fect oC tne Protected struggle and HP II , that Russia may yet save the Polish m flit ' capital. lui Previous experience with Gorman B ijlll I tactlcB, however, has been that a K,fi temporary slowing down was follow-Bl'llill follow-Bl'llill !' ed S00n by greater efforts, and when H I Mil Von Mackenscn has concluded his Hpii l ' present operations in the southeast Hi fill "' Von HIndcnburg, it is expected, will til!' ' renew his heavy blows on the Nail Na-il ll 1 III i 1 rewr front ' I HI llJII! ll For tho mnient, 'therefore, the il S' ill ' greatest interest attaches to the 1 southeast, where, according to Berlin I official report, the Germans have extended ex-tended their bridgehead positions iijiui south of Warsaw; tho Austrlans have 1 nllnl gained a decisive success to the west HI iUUI j ! of Ivangorod and Von Macken3en, ! I after meeting with considerable re- j ' sistanco, has broken the Russian line HI ' east of Leczna and north of Chelm. ( Similar successes have been gained hi ' by the Germans ln Courland and in III ' the direction of Lomza To the minds j I of many military men the Courland HI ' operations, which General Von Bue-low Bue-low is directing are fraught with the IB ji( I ,j( greatest danger to tho Russians, as a m HI j big victory for the Germans in this 1 111 ij region would enable them to move HI HI across the railways which feed the ill 9 III! ''I Russian armies. Further west they H ,j j are already near Ponlewesch, which H 8 lljl ( j is the junction of two branch lines of H j HI ' the Vllna-Petrograd railway. 1 It HI lj Claims In Conflict. Hi fill j There has been considerable fight- Hj ij ing in the western zone, in ArtolB, the H j n I Argonne and Alsace, but, as usual, the HI Mill claims of the French and German H ,' I general staffs conflict, both asserting H ' i 'j that the fighting favored their troops. H I 'fit fi Unofficial reports from Holland say H Ml i that a big battle has been in progress H II Jill ,; along the British front ln Flanders H II 'r since Saturday, but there Is no con- H 11,1 HI tirmatlon of this. H JIIU t General Sir Ian Hamilton, commau- H I I HI ''' der of the allied forces in the Darda- M lull nelleB, records a successful attack by H Hi the Australians and New Zealanders H W lllj on the Turkish trenches, which haB H 1 ill '' placed them ln possession of tho crest H I 'ill ib of a 'U near tnelr llnes- Theso co- 1 lljllll lonlal troops hold positions along the ifl H'lllll I western side of the Galllpoli peninsula H I' II I I and tbus Provent tno Turks from HI flji sending all their forces against the H Rij II! Mr Anglo-French army, which holds the H l j tip of the peninsula. |