ENEMY OCCUPIES IVANCOROD.

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

ENEMY OCCUPIES IVANCOROD.

RUSSIAN DEFENDERS S UR PRISED. A GERMAN WIRELESS STORY. HOW THE VISTULA WAS FORCED. AMSTERDAM. August b. Official: A Vienna telegram states occupied. (Received Augusts, 4. in pmi.) A Berlin wireless message claims that General von \\ oyrseli at Ivangorod. adroitly assailed the Russians. He massed troops and pontoon material m trains opposite Novo Alexandria, causing the Russians to throw their best troops and reserves into Novo Alexandria. s At nio'ht, however, twenty pontoon trams, hidden by straw, with troops, moved downstream and the engineers -mckly threw four bridges, heavily fortified, over the Vistula. In a few hours the Germans crossed and surprised the Russians,, encircling Ivangorod to the north and cutting off connection with Warsaw. . ... . , The “Vossiche Zeitimg" states that the Russians have completed preparations for the evacuation of Kovno. Ihe Governor, civil officers, and archives have gone to Novo Alexandrovsk. Half the civilians have gone. The wounded have been sent to Central Russia.. THE GERM AN BTORY CONTRADICTED. EETEOGEAD 'August (h Official - The forts at Ivangorod were constructed practically entirely of brick and were not filled with materials necessary for modern fortifications. In view of the .rapessmiliiy oi sustainin''- a siege all stores were methodically withdrawn m t me. Our rearguards stopped the enemy’s progress for a few days on a few lines of fieldworks withou sanguinary combats. Gn the fourth dav. in conformity with the general plan, we blew up several concrete bases whereon brick casements .rested, aim retreated.