Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-17
TEUTONS MAKING
DESPERATE DRIVE
AGAINST RUSSIANS
Cars Forces Get Little
Time to Rest or Re-
organize.
COMBINED OPERATIONS
ON GIGANTIC SCALE
While Germans Struggle Toward
Warsaw, Austrlans Cross
the Dnicster.
FURTHER PROGRESS CLAIMED
Fighting Now in Progress on Lor.
raine Frontier ard in
ArtoiS.

man armies. which appear to be work.
inE in perfect concert as the result of
the German organization. are giving
/ the Russians little rest or time to re.
organize after their retreat from
Calicia.
simultaneously with the German ef-
fort TO reach Warsaw. the Austrians
have attacked along the Dnicster. and
have crossed that river at several
/ points.
/ General Won Mackensen's army. which
doubtless had been waiting for Field >
Marshal Won Hindenburg to move in
the north. also has come to life again,
and lighting has been resumed in South
ern Poland.
III fact. there is fighting of more
/ or less severity all along the Russian
! front. except in Central Poland. where
the Russians are in such strong posi-
| tons that. in the opinion of military
men. it would be impossible to break
through.
The Germans claim further progress
in the snortkern operations but with
the Russians retiring, it is not likely
that the main forces have clashed as
yet The combined operations are the
most gigantic yet undertaken. the aim
I being. according 10 military experts, to
/ squeeze the Russians out OF Warsaw
and the great slice OF country which
/ they hold 10 the north. south and east
OF the city. and NJ the same time to at,
tempt an invasion of Bessarabia.
LITTLE POSSIBILITY or
| SERIOUS MOVE IN WEST
SO long as this effort 10 crush Russia
or 10 break her power OF offensive con-
, tinues. there Is little possibility, mill
tary writer's say, of the Germans at
tempting amy important movement in
| the west. for il is believed that the
| Austro- o-Germans will for IA long while
| require all their available troops in
| the east. -Four German army corps,
! composed of Pomeranians and men
from Schleswig. are said to have left
; Thorn to re-enforce General Won Hin
! denburg.
The German Crown Prince did try to
break through the French lines in
! ArGonne. but ii is the opinion of mill
/ tarH experts that his intention was
! simply TO weaken the French hold on
Nerdun y German ctficial statement
claims that one result OF this often
StVe was the capture of 1000 French
soldiers in three weeks. On the other
hand, the French claim to have re-
gained most OF the ground they had
been forced to give up. and which they
state did not exceed 400 yards in depth.
British critics describe the effort of
the crown prince as costly and par
tally successful advance. followed by
n commemorative. which definitely
checked his progress.
/ Fighting is now III progress on the
Lorraine frontier and in .Artois where
the French continued their attempt to
capture Souchez.
FURTHER PROGRESS
REPORTED FROM ATHENS
Further progress is unofficially re-
ported from Athens 10 have been made
/ by the allies on the Ciallipoli Peninsula
! IN The Dardanelles campaign. and. as
the Athens dispatches are generally
ahead of the official reports. this state
ment is credited here.
More important is the news that
Roumania has declined to accede TO
f, Gcrmany'S demand that Roumania al
I, low munitions to pass through that
| country for Turkey.
/ The entente allies announce another
| victory in Africa, where they captured
/ NGaundere. an important trading
| center of kamerun. German colony
' in Western Equatorial Africa.