The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-06-17
Russian Recovery Leads to
BIoodiest Fighting of Cam
paign-20,000 Reported
Slain at MoCiska.
GERMANS ATTACK AT ENDS
Center Seems to Have Been
Checked Lemberg Appar-
emily Safe For Time Being
Berlin Reports Gains.

~CA0NAB SNAO NNN
French would appear to be unrelenting
In their offensive work, which is net
ting them slow progress in northwest.
ern France, the situation In the eastern
arena Of the war where the Austro-
Germans are straining every nerve to
deliver a crushing blow to the Rus
slams, remains of the utmost import
ance. No confirmation has yet been re-
ceived OF the report that the AuStro-
Germans la ~reoccupied Zurawna, but
further to the south they are across the
River Dniester and on Russian soil in
Bessarabia.
Not for months past has there been
such general activity on the eastern
front, Checked at the center of the
Galician line the Austro-G Germans have
developed an offensive IN both wings
at the same time and they are starting
another battle in Poland to the north
of Przasnysz. There is confused fight
ing going on at the same time in the
Baltic provinces, so IL may be said
that the contenders are at grips once
more from the Baltic to the Rumanian
frontier.
Russians Have Ammunition.
The stand which the Russians have
been making recently in Galicia indi-
Gates to British observers that their
shortage OF ammunition has been over"
come, 1t was his shortage, according
to the belief here, that enabled the
Austro-G Germans last month to sweep
across the country and take PrZemysl
In such record time.
A press dispatch from Petrograd
says 10000 men in the army of Gen.
Won Mackensen were killed as the re-
suit of an attack on the Russian posi-
tons near Mosciska, in Galicia. The
Austro- German attempt to capture
Lemberg is said to nave been given up.
Official dispatches, however, Indicate
no marked change In Galicia where the
lighting is continuous and severe.
official announcement was made in
Berlin this afternoon that Gen. Won
Mackensen has occupied the Russian
positions along the entire front in the
eastern arena of the fighting from
Cyerniawa to Sieniawa.
Shift Scene Of Attack.
The Germans baked in their efforts
to reach Lemberg from the south, have
commenced an attack upon the Rus
slams on the river San north Of
Przemysl and along the Dneister in
port today claim to have been success
eul in both sectors.
The movement in the southeast re-
sembles that which failed further up
the Dneister at Zurawna, but Is Of a
wider scale. -he right wing Of the
Austro- German army is only 20 miles
from the Rumanian frontier, while its
left wing reached as far as Halicz,
where many attacks have been de-
livered against a bridge head. The CEN
ter Of operations Is Kolomea, from
which point the main attacks which
have carried the Teutonic allies across
the Dneister in several places are be-
ing launched.
simultaneously, the Germans are
proceeding with their attack on the
Russian center near Rawka, west Of
Warsaw, where they also have been
successful, according to- their reports.
MINOR GAINS AND LOSSES
ARE REPORTED BY FRENCH
Paris, June 14.-The French war Of
ice this afternoon gave a statement
on the progress Of hostilities which
reads:
There is nothing of real Importance
10 add to the announcement given out
asst night. Belgian troops threw a bat
talon over to the east bank of the
User, to the south OF the railroad bridge
going to Dixmude and organized them
Jelves on the ground thus gained. Also
enemy in the vicinity OF the chateau
If Dixmude.
In the sector to the south of Arras
yesterday saw the development of
various infantry actions. At the end
Of the day one Of these advances made
as masters of a German work to the
last of Lorette. Another engagement
resulted in our losing after a violent
oombardment, a portion of the trenches
occupied during the afternoon at a
ooint to the north of the sugar refinery
Of Souchez.
There has been nothing to report
from the remainder Of 'front.'"