Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
TEUTONIC FORCES
ARE DRIVEN BACK
BY THE RUSSIANS
Cars Forces Win Battle Along
Dniester and Take 600
Prisoners.
LOSSES OF MAcKENSENS
ARMY REPORTED HEAVY
Berlin, However, Declares That
Situation in Galicia Is
Not Changed.


PETROGRAD. June 11-An official
announcement from army headquar.
ters, given out today, reeites a Rus
sian success on the river Dniester.
After hard fighting the Russians
yesterday took from their antagon-
lists seventeen cannon and forty mine
machine guns, and captured approx
mately $500 officers and men.
The text of the communication fol-
lows:
BY heroic efforts our troops Thurs
day repulsed on the right banls of
the river Dniester great forces of the
enemy, who had crossed near Zu-
rawna, east of Strv. On the front
from JulalIow to Siewki the enemy
sustained great losses. After a hard
fight we captured seventeen cannon
and forty mine machine gun and took
prisoners 18S officers and $500 men.
Among the prisoners is one entire
company of the Prussian Fusilier
Guards"
BY the United Press.
PETROGRAD, June n.-General
Mackensen's army, marching on
Lemberg from the west has been de-
feated, with heavy losses, and driven
back nearly four miles in the direc-
tion of Przemysl. The Russians
smashed Mackensen's front in a
twelve-hour battle near Mosciska.
A second Austro-German army,
advancing ON Lemberg from the
south and southeast, has been halted
and driven back behind the Stanis-
lau-Lemberg railway along the left
bank of the Dneister. In the fighting
north of Shyj the Russians have
taken 1000 prisoners and eight ma
chine guns.
Russians Take Offensive,
AT practically all points our ar
mics are now either on the offensive
of maintaining their positions" said
an official statement from the war
office. I'VE have captured Raczewko
and other villages, taking 800 men and
twenty officers prisoners. In the
Shawl region, the Germans were re-
pulsed in an attack along a wide
front on Lake Rakiewo."
The German losses in the fighting
along the Przemysl-Lemberg railway
were extremely heavy. Military men
here today declared the enemy COM
manderS must now halt their often
sive and reform their forces before
beginning a second serious attempt
upon Lemberg. Meanwhile the Rus
slams still have ample time to rein
force their armies guarding the city.
Following their evacuation of
Przemysl, the Russians withdrew
along the Lemberg railway and took
up strong positions east of MeocislSa.
The enemy followed closely and there
were constant Skirmishes between the
advance and rear guards of the two
armies
Germans Use Gas Bombs.
General Mackensen launched a Vio-
lent attack Tuesday night. The Rus
sian intrenchments were first shelled
with heavy artillery and attacked
with poisonous gas bombs. For three
hours the artillery onslaught contin-
ued; then great masses of Austro-
German infantry rushed the Slav po-
sitions.
The force of the attack carried the
enemy's foremost lines up to the Rus
sian entaglements. All night long
Russian artillery moved down enemy
soldiers. At daybreak the Germans
began to retreat. and hotly pursued
by fresh Russian troops. fell back
900 yards In the direction of
Przemysl.
The fighting along the Dneister,
south of Lemberg, was equally fierce,
though smaller forces were engaged.
General Won Linsingen, in person
witnessed the defeat of a body of
his troops that crossed the Dneister
at Zaravno.