RUSSIA'S HOUR OF TRIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3997, 2 August 1915, Page 5

RUSSIA'S HOUR OF TRIAL.

SOUND STRATEGY DICTATES Til WITHDRAWAL. EH tMV'S SUCCESS DUE SOLELY TO MUNITIONS. HO NEWS OF THE EVACUATION OF WARSAW. ENEMY TROOPS ENTER LUBILJN. RUSSIAN RETREAT THREATENED. OUR ALLY’S SPLENDID UMGOiNQUERABLE SPIRIT. THE LESSdM OF MOSCOW REMEMBERED.

Following upon the news In Saturday morning’s paper that the Russians had decided to retire from their position in Poland, thus leaving the way to Warsaw practically open to the enemy, a telegram was received on Saturday afternoon stating that a German costs™ njuniijys reported that General von Woyrscn had forced the Vistula at several points, she Russians had evacuated the entire line of the Vistula and the Bug, So far there have been no reports as to the progress of the Russian retirement, though Austrian cavalry has^ entered Lublin, an important city 96 miles ts.E. of Warsaw.

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(..Received August 1.3.30 p.m.) . PETROGRAD, July 51. There is no deiinite news of the evacuation of M arsaw. Ik« successes of the Russians in the past few days on the JSavew ami between Memo, and tlie Bug are regarded as a guarantee that the Russian* are withdrawing with deliberation through mu and strictly according to programme Austrian caudrv have entered Lublin. The latest uussian official message is asiollows : Fighting on Lie Narew is principally with artillery. W c repulsed several -attacks. , a The enemy crossed the 'Vistula al h.adaraua and we attacked the detachments which crossed. , , . , Our heavy artillery destroyed the enemy s bridge at hob.yl--lUUlLargo enemy forces attacked ou Thursday on both banks of t,IC \ve repulsed the enemy in the Khmiel-Peaski sector, inflicting heavy losses, but the enemy advanced on the left bank of the Yiprz! and after a stubborn fignt, one envision raptured Trauniki and crossed to the right bank. We repulsed all enemy attacks between viprz and the Hug and repulsed the enemy at Sokal, taking 1000 prisoners. \\ r e repulsed the Austrians at Kamienka, on the bug. General Buchanan, in a message to the press, says. in Galicia and Boland the Russians have lately bad to retire before superior German forces supported oy unlimited guns and GodL but the Germans original MMmLvo was the destruction Of the Russian army and that army is still’mtaet like Charles XI 1 at i’olta.va , and like Napoleon at Moscow, the Raiser will live (o learn that Russia, is unconquerable. Never has a nation displaced a more heroic spirit in an hour of trial than the Russians 'in the last few critical weeks. Ihe sanu- noble spirit of s,.|f-sacrihee animates all the Allies armies and they will novel Aieaih the sword until German militarism is ' rushed unci' and The “Novo" Yremva” erre:-'- Ruin is out i-nat not until the a p pea ranee*'of the General von .Bulow’s army on the Neimen, !he Dwina, and at Gallwitzs, and <>n the Nare w were the enemv’s operations north-west or the frontier closely linked with Ihe Genual 1 movements west of the V istula and between the Vistula and the Bug- The Russian armies with the inner posinoll u -,. r0 cm aided to manoeuvre- at three fronts, north, south uni! West but this was off-set by tlm restricted area on the \ <)V <) n-corgie vs Ik- [van gorodA iro« IfA 1 res tlatoysk q uadnl af era!. The (M/tire advanced theatre, including the Vistula and Warsaw, musl be regarded as a region of severe rearguard actions in relaGoi, to the 'principle defensive line of Brestlatovsk-Grodno-Lovno | )U! ji j s d remain re to conclude that Warsaw and the \ istula ;i re irretrievably' lost. It is possible that the Germans will lie ;,{ a standstill in these positions.