On the left bank of the Skwa enemy
attacks against the villages of Vyk and Pchetchniak were
repulsed with success. West of the Omulew our troops,
retiring progressively toward a bridgehead on the Narew,
delivered on the evening of the 17th a rearguard action of a
stubborn character near the town of Mahoff. Near the village
of Karnevo we made a brilliant counter-attack.

In the direction of Lublin enemy attacks during the 18th on
the front Wilkolaz-Vychawa (east and north of Krasnik) were
successfully repulsed.

At dawn of the 18th the enemy captured Krasnostav,
thirty-four miles south of Lublin on the Vieprz, and crossed
upstream. During the course of the 19th enemy attacks
between the stream flowing from Rybtchevbitze toward the
village of Piaski and the Vieprz remained without result. On
the right bank of the Vieprz we repulsed near Krasnostav
and the River Volitza many extremely stubborn enemy attacks.

Nevertheless, near the mouth of the Volitza and the village
of Gaevniki the enemy succeeded in establishing himself on
the right bank of this river, after which we judged it
advisable to retire to our second-line positions.

In the region of the village of Grabovetz on the 18th we
repulsed four furious enemy attacks on a wide front,
supported by a curtain of fire from his artillery.

Between Geneichva and the Bug on the evening of the 17th,
after a desperate fight we drove the enemy from all the
trenches previously occupied by him.

On the Bug energetic fighting continued against the enemy,
who crossed on the 18th on the front Skomorskhy-Sokal.

"Can Warsaw be held?" is the question now being asked here.

With the German Field Marshals, von Hindenburg on the north and von
Mackensen on the south, whipping forward the two ends of a great arc
around the city, it is realized in England that Grand Duke Nicholas,
Commander in Chief of the Russian armies, has the most severe task
imposed on him since the outbreak of the European war, and the
military writers of some of the London papers seem to think that the
task is well-nigh impossible.

There was sustained confidence that Germany's previous violent attacks
along the Bzura-Rawka front would never pierce the Russian line, but
the present colossal co-ordinate movement was developed with such
suddenness, and has been carried