New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
Rear Guard of Defend.
ers Fights with
Her0ism.
CARS BIG GUNS
BELIEVED SAVED
Austrians Report Orderly
Retreat, but German
Dispatches Rout.
KAISERS WILL MEET
SOvereigns to Celebrate in Capt.
ured City-Petrograd Admits
Loss of Town.

London, June 23.-Lemberg has
fallen. The Russian armies that
held the Galician capital have been
in full retreat from the city east
ward toward their own frontier
since Tuesday, when the vanguard
of the Austro-Germans entered.
The Russian General Staff to-
night admitted the loss Of Lemberg
and the retreat Of the Grand Dukes
army.
The Teutonic allies are in full pur-
suit and dispatches from German
sources declare the Russian retiring
movement developed into an utter
rout.
Retreat Called Orderly.
kilograms from Vienna, however,
say that the Austrian correspondents
with the Teutonic armies pay tribute
to the magnificent rear-guard action
fought by the Russians, who are de-
clared to have retreated eastward in
good order, leaving behind few pris-
oners and even removing the Rus
sian documents from the city.
The battle is still raging along the
Dniester, where a recent Petro-
grad official statement reports an un-
expected success for the Russians.
Whether the fall Of Lemberg means
that the Russian army operating
south Of it in Southeast Galicia is
effectively cut off from the army to
the north. stretching across Poland
to the Baltic. cannot yet be said.
The newspapers Of both Vienna and
Berlin say this is the case and that
the Russian arms have received a
blow from which they cannot re-
cover.
News Of Fall Delayed.
If the stroke proves as crushing
as the Teutons predict, its effects,
military observers here say, soon
should be felt in the transfer of vast
German forces to the west, where
for days they have been hard
pressed by the French.
The news of the fall Of Lemberg was
known on the Continent yesterday, but
1t did not reach London until late this
afternoon, when bulletins arrived al
most simultaneously by wireless from
Berlin and Vienna by way OF Amster-
dam. The German official announce
ment contained little beyond the news
of the capture Of the city, but the Aus
trian Headquarters report, which fol-
lows, contains several details Of the
fighting:
"The northwest and west fronts Of
Lemberg, on the line of 0lkiew to Miko-
laiow, were strongly occupied by Rus
sian defensive forces. Tuesday, at 8.
o'clock in the forenoon, the Vienna
Landwehr stormed the Uzezna works,
on the road from Jsnow TO Komahe.
from the northwest at the same time
our troops advanced across the heights
east Of the Mlynewka rivulet and
stormed several bulwarks before Lysa
Cora height.
During the forenoon, while advanc-
ing further in the direction Of the town,
the remaining works northwest and
west Of the fronts were captured after
fighting. In this fighting the
Russian front again was broken, and
the enemy, who suffered heavy losses.
again was forced to retreat.
Lemberg Welcomes Teuions.
"Our troops, pursuing the enemy
across the heights east and northeast
of the town. crossed south Of the Lem
berg road to Mikolaiow.
amid demonstrations Of Joy by the
Geenral Won Boehm-E Ermolli
entered the town Of Lemberg at (
o'clock in the afternoon with the troops
Of the Second Army.
"Near Zolkiew and Raws Ruska .ae
Russians are retreating. Isolated Rus
sian attacks on the Tanew River have
been repulsed.
Last night the enemy began q fur
ther retreat between the San and Vis-
tuls Rivers and in the hilly district
of Kielee, Russian Poland. everywhere
pursued by the Allies.
"On the Dniester the general situa-
ton is unchanged"
The official admission by Petrogrsd
that the Russians have lost Lemberg
says:
aon the 2lst and during the fol-
lowing night in the direction OF Lwow
(Lemberg) We arrested an enemy Of
fensive by stubborn fighting. The
enemy suffered great losses In the
course Of barren attacks near the viii
lage Of Brgouhovice and A,rthcr south