THE CRISIS IN POLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5

THE CRISIS IN POLAND.

ENEMY'S ADVANCE CiIPLETELf CHECKED.. —— ,*.*,_** DESPERATE EFFORTS AGAINST QBSOWIEG. RUSSIAN VISTULA ARMY SAFE. THE ATTACK ON RIGA STOPPED. GEiiUMi FLIiIC BAGK ¥§ MITAU. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF POLAND. PRINCE JOACHIM MENTIONED A;3 KING. (United Press Association. —Copyright. ) (Received August 10, 3.5 p.m..) LONDON, August 10. The “Daily Telegraph's” Potrograd correspondent says the higher military authorities regard the Russian Vistula army as out of danger. The troops’are talcing up their new positions without precipitation and their rear is not at tlie moment threatened.

There are growing indication* that the impetus of the Austro-Greraian attack is weakening and their failure to repeat JL'Tiday’s attempt to rush Eovno and Ossowieo is evidence that they have not a large force in these zones. ‘ News from Yiina states that the Bussian artillery at Eovno wro -ght fearful havoc. Prisoners state that lately the enemy have • suffered from a deficiency in food and fodder, and the soldier • arc exhausted by continual marching, some being unable to s', aid, and refusing food and begging only permission to sleep; ihe Bussian position in the Baltic is firm and they have pus! ‘d back the Germans almost to Ah tan and the enemy have shown no inclination to resume the aggressive. It is believed that the Germans have drawn upon these forces to strengthen the attack eastward of Ponievitcli, where ih-‘ battle hangs in the balance, the Germans having made no headway. ~ , The main enemy pressure continues on the JNarew line, and ah,; iix front of and on w»tii sides of the Yieprz, where the fighting favors the iiussians. There are indications that the Austro-Gemuum have small faith in the permanence of their gains. A refugee irotn. Galicia reports that thy Austrians are not restoring their civil adimnistr<ltlThe newspapers assume that the Germans are altering their plans on the eastern front and are now aiming at Ossowiec. They declare the enemy’s operations towards Biga have entirely tailed. The “Eovoe Yremya” states that the Germans have been thrown back at Afitanl which explains the sudden attack on Baltic papers implv that Mitau is now again m the possession of the Russians. , . r v An eye-witness has give sworn evidence as to I mice -J nnmini's Presence at the sacking of & big estate at Suwalki. is s]i.;('•>*(if ihe loot included a troika team. Tup witness rather w;,s killed at Ealish. his sister was tortured ana succumbed, u.-m another was abducted. „ v , • Befo-ees from Lithuania state that the Germans are distributing oamphJets at Eovno. announcing tne reunion oi Bussian and Prussian Lithuanians as an independent Kingdom under ihe Kaiser’s son -Joachim, whose portrait adorns the pamphlet. A Russian official message says: Korth-east of Wilcomiez dislodged the German advance guards from several villages, inflU l>Snn S g the night of August T the enemy renewed his attacks , m Kovno and there was an intense bombardment on toe Bth with artillery of all calibres, including the heaviest, and extremely desperate attacks on our advanced position .anlt against the western front or povno. The uw-mj " eie repulsed with enormous German msscs.