THE RUSSIAN RETREAT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN RETREAT.

WARSAW OLEUM STRIPPED OF VALUABLES. OUR' JULY'S ABftSY INTACT AND * FULL QF. FIGHT. - POSSIBILITIES OF GERMAN STRATE&Y. MEW RUSSIAN POSITION 'MAY BE MENACED. IMPORTANT DEWELiPIIEITS MEM RIGA POPULACE LEAVING U!H THOUSANDS. BIS BATTLE EXPECTED AT nm G£OHGiVSO. ENEMY’S ADVANCE COST'S THEM DEAR. (United Press' Association . —Copyright;.} (Received August 8, 3 p.m.) HEIRQG.RAD, August. 8. Although Russia hopes the German attempts to squeeze the Jin. finis between the forces advancing from the Aarew and -( 'ln m-Luhlin fronts has denitely failed, German strategy, has an, u,h more ambitious scheme of the same kind in view. This •ds a j>larmed advance in the event oi: the Russians reaching the XienuMiburg line. The Germans, by occupying'Riga, would be favorably placed for working down, the Dwina and taking the new Russian position in the rear. The movement would require enormous troops manoeuvring on a vast, area and liable to many mishaps, but the best military opniioa in Petrograd refuses to regard the danger lightly. Much depends on the fighting on the extreme German left. . The Germans are employing 350,000 men between Kovno and tlic Dwina and if they break through there before the Russians arc clear of the Karew-\ istula-Bug area a difficult situation will There is an exodus from Riga of 10,000 people dully. The British Consulate has been left under American protection. It is anticipated that the Russians will defend Novo Georgievc to the last. An official message says: 'We victoriously repulsed the Germans between the Dwina and the Nieuien.^ There was desperate fighting on Wednesday night and Thursday on the left bank of the Narew and on the Rojani, OsUolenka and Ostrow roads. Our e< >unter-attaeks lielp up the eiieinv on an extended front. Violent fighting continues. Ail. is quiet in the middle Vistula since cur crossing. We evacuated Warsaw to save its bomburinnent. The enemy’s fruitless attempts to extern! '.he occupation zone continue only in the Macievifcze region. • Alter stubborn’ battles cast of the Traumki-Vlodnva road,, tiie enemy concentrated the fire o? his massed artillery and we retired a little northwards.