NAREFF 



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NAROCH 



Nareff, HATTLE OK THK. Fought 



,i Ilir (; ( -riii;iiis .in.l Itii) 



n, .htly-Aug., 1915. Ati.-r 



tin- il-fi:it of the Germans at 



v. i. IV 1 1. 28, 1915, 



.iii.l tln-ir n 'i. it to Mlava and 



rimr/ele. :t |"-iiod of trench war- 



.llowcd till iilxmt .Inly I'-' 



when (Jiillwit'/., with fi\e German 



.mi iy corps, assumed the offensive 



mg of the Nareff. 



(in ,luly 13 the Germans drove 

 i-si.-ms on from GrudiLsk, 

 anil occupied Przasnysz next day, 

 i..tl. after still lighting with 

 :i rearguards, falling into 

 th.-ir hands on July 16. Having 

 made a stand at Makoff on July 

 17, to enable their main local 

 to M tin-, the Russians as- 

 sembled on the line of the Nareff, on 

 July 18, with (iallwitz opposed to 

 tin-in from near Novo Georgievsk, 

 past Pultusk and Rozan to Ostro- 

 lcnk;i. Beyond Ostrolenka, in 

 touch with Gallwitz, Scholtz con- 

 tinued the German front N. to 

 Ossovietz. By July 20 the Rus- 

 sians were on the S. side of the 

 Nareff, but still held the bridge- 

 heads on its N. bank, and defended 

 them desperately. 



During the night of July 23-24 

 Gallwitz stormed a passage of the 

 river near its junction with the 

 Orzyc, and though an effort close 

 to Rozan failed, the Germans 

 crossed also above Ostrolenka, 

 some miles S. of Lomza. Higher up 

 Scholtz was repulsed at Novogrod, 

 but Gallwitz pressed on across the 

 river towards the road between 

 Vyszkoff and Ostroff, which was 

 within 20 m. of the Warsaw-Pet- 

 rograd rly., and not much more 

 than that distance from Warsaw 

 itself. The Russians, however, held 

 their new positions. On July 26 

 both Gajlwitz and Scholtz, strongly 

 reinforced, further attacked the 

 rest of the Nareff line, but made no 

 fresh gains. 



On Aug. 7 Gallwitz forced a 

 passage of the Bug, above Novo 

 Georgievsk, and on Aug. 9 Scholtz 

 took Lomza on the Nareff. By 

 Aug. 15 the German advance 

 reached Briansk, on the Nurzetz, 

 a tributary of the Bug, but Warsaw 

 had fallen ten days before. See 

 Russia ; Warsaw, Attacks on. 



Narenta. River of Yugo-Slavia 

 in Herzegovina and Dalmatia ; the 

 Slav name L* Neretva. It rises near 

 the border of Montenegro, flows 

 N \V . and then S.W. through the 

 largest valley from the Dinarie 

 Alps to the Adriatic Sea past Mos- 

 tar. The valley provides a compara- 

 tively easy route from the Adriatic 

 coast to Sarajevo. A rly. follows 

 the valley to Konjic from Krusevo. 

 Of the total course of 140 m. only 

 10 m. are navigable. 



Sir George Nares, 

 British navigator 



Nares, Sin GEORGE STRONG 

 (1831-1915). British navigator. 

 Kntering the navy in 184.". In- 

 served in the 

 Resolute dur- 

 ing the search 

 for Sir John 

 Franklin, 

 1852-54. He 

 i -1,111 in anded 

 the Challenger 

 duriiiir part of 

 her fa in o u * 

 cruise, but was 

 recal led to 

 take command of the Arctic expe- 

 dition, 1875-76, for which service 

 he was made a K.C.B. He was 

 made rear-admiral in 1887, vice- 

 admiral, 1892, and died Jan. 15, 

 1915. He was the author of several 

 works on seamanship. 



Nares, OWEN (b. 1888). British 

 actor. He was born at Maiden 

 Erlegh, Berkshire, Aug. 11, 1888, 

 and was educated at Reading. 

 Having studied for the stage under 

 Rosina Filippi, he made his first 

 professional appearance at the 

 Haymarket Theatre, London, in 

 1908. His progress was rapid, and 

 among the plays in which he 

 gained distinction as a clever actor 

 in social comedy were Lady 

 Windermere's Fan, 1911, Mile- 

 stones, 1912, David Copperfield, 

 1914, and Peter Ibbetson, 1915. 



Narino. Maritime dept. of S. 

 Colombia, S. America. It is bound- 

 ed N. by Cauca and S. by Ecuador. 

 Although traversed by the Andes, 

 there are many fertile tracts, 

 yielding sugar, cocoa, rice, pota- 

 toes, and cereals. Stock-raising is 

 a prominent industry, and gold- 

 mining is engaged in. Manufac- 

 tures include Panama" bate and 

 foot-wear. Over 500 m. of rly. 

 serve the dept., which has many 

 good roads. The capital is Pasto 

 (q.v.). Its area is 9,360 sq. m. Pop. 

 292,500. 



Narino, ANTONIO (1765-1823). 

 Colombian statesman. He was 

 born at Santa Fe", and as a young 

 man incurred the displeasure of the 

 authorities by translating into 

 Spanish the decree of the French 

 assembly concerning the rights of 

 man and of citizenship, issued when 

 framing his country's constitu- 

 tion. After spending some time in 

 Europe, he returned to Colombia 

 in ^inie to take part in the rising 

 against Spain, and for a short time 

 in 1811 and again in 1812 was 

 president and dictator. In an en- 

 suing civil war he was defeated and 

 sent in 1814 to Spain, where he re- 

 mained in prison until 1820. He 

 died at Leiva, Dec. 13, 1823. 



Narni. City of Italy, in the prov. 

 of Perugia. It stands on the Nera, 

 the ancient Nar, 66 m. by rly. N. of 



Rome. Picturesquely situated on 

 a rocky eminence, 1,000 ft. alt., 

 with an ancient castle, now used 

 as a prison, it has a cathedral 

 dating from the llth century. 

 There are mineral springs in the 

 vi'-jmty. A trade is carried on in 

 chemicals and indiarubber goods. 

 Roman remains include a remark- 



Narni, Italy. Piazza Priora, with 

 the llth century cathedral on the 

 left ; right, facade of the 14th cen- 

 tury town hall 



able bridge built by Augustus, and 

 an aqueduct that brought water 

 from a spring 15 m. distant. The 

 ancient Nequinum or Narnia, it 

 has been a bishop's see from 369. 

 Pop. 5,000. 



Naroch OR NAROTCH. Lake of 

 W. Russia. It is 80 m. S.S.E. of 

 Dvinsk and is drained by the river 

 Naroch, which joins the Viliya in 

 Lithuania. 



Naroch, BATTLE OF LAKE. 

 Fought between the Russians and 

 Germans, March and April, 1916. 



In the middle of March, 1916, 

 the Russians started an offensive 

 between Lake Naroch and Lake 

 Vishnieff, which with intermissions 

 lasted till the middle of April. 



The centre of the struggle was 

 the belt of land between the lakes, 

 which the enemy had. fortified 

 with extensive works. The Rus- 

 sians attacked these positions first 

 on March 16 and 17, with artillery 

 fire, and next day repulsed a Ger- 

 man assault ; their own infantry 

 attack, delivered on March 18, had 

 a measure of success, and on March 

 19-20 they carried the village of 

 Zanaptehe, and occupied some 

 German trenches. 



S. of Drisviaty the Germans, on 

 March 24, recovered part of the lost 

 trenches : near Smorgon the battle 

 blazed up furiously. On a front of 

 about 70 m. the struggle went on 

 night and day, most of the Russian 



