Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-04
ZAMOSC is TAKEN
BY TEUTON HOSTS
Great Polish Fortress Captured by
Austro-Germans as They Con-
tinue Desperate Sweep.
CAUSES PEssIMIsM IN BRITAIN


LONDON, July S,-The sudden
recurrence OF heavy artillery fire by
the Germans at many points IN
France is marked feature of the
fighting on the western front, but /
in the meantime the Austro-German
advance in Galicia and in Poland Is
unchecked and the Teutons have
shown no disposition to diminish the
intensity of their eastern offensive.
The Polish fortress of zamosc has been
captured and progress in otner sectors
OF strategic importance in the east Is
claimed by Berlin. For weeks It has been 1
the same story in this theater Of war
an Austro-German rush, a Russian re-
treat-and the end Is not In sight
Turk Counter Attack Repulsed.
There has been during the week no
official news whatever from the British |
front in Flanders. but General Sir Ian
Hamilton, commanding the allied land
forces at the Dardaneles, in his second
official dispatch of the week, records the
repulse of a vicious counter attack by
the Turks, who were bent on recovering
the lost ground south of the fortified hill
OF Achi Bahia and the strong position at
Krlthia, which the British have for some
time been attempting to envelope.
The British forged bit forward last
Monday and the following day the Turks,
after sapping and mining, launched
counter stroke with the bayOnet This
was crushed, while the French forces
operating on the right in Kereves Sere
valley, toward the east coast of Gallipoli,
advanced and consolidated the ground
won the latter part OF June. The dis
tances are not stated.
Despite the hard fighting ever since the
landing on April %, the Franco-British
expedition only lately has achieved any
thing notable toward strengthening its
hold on the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula,
Achi Baba being a small Gibraltar,
bristling with machine guns, surrounded
by barbed wire and terraced with
trenches. This is the reason why any
allied progress is hailed with great salts
faction in England.
Praise for Turks.
II lie interesting to note the tributes to
the Turks bravery and even gallantry
paid in almost every dispatch from the
British correspondents at the Dardanelles.
At no time during the peninsula fighting
have the Turks been accused of atrocities.
The munitions measure giving David
Lloyd George. minister of munitions. wide
power to whip up the ammunitions sup
ply. passed the House Of Lords today,
and will be a statute when the king af-
fixes his signature.
There are manifold indications through
out the United Kingdom that the people
only now, after nearly year, fully
. sense the seriousness of the war. Only
few months ago the boast was. "Busi-
ness is as usual Theater patronage
was undiminished and the restaurants
trade normal. The cabinet ministers lire
now urging the necessity, OF the most !
rigid ECONOMY by individuals and school
children are being besought to invest in
the war loan.
The Teutonic successes in Galicia, the
slowness of the Dardanelles operations
and the failure of the allies to inaugurate
the rnuch-discussed offensive in the west
are responsible for this change in public
demeanor.
German ofSic1aI Report.
BERLIN. July 2-(via London 1.-THE
German forces have reached the Russian
positions at Krasnil1 in the southern dis
trict Of Russian Poland. according to the
official statement issued today by the
German army headquarters. The state
ment also says that the Russian forces
in the region west of Zamoec have been
driven back.
The statement follows
Western theater: A night attack on
\ our positions west of souchez was beaten
off
In the western portion of the Ar
gonnes a part of the army under the
crown prince. stormed point Of support
Northwest of lie -Four De Paris we ad-
vanced by storm over front of five
kilometers (three miles. long and from
200 to 300 meters wide. This was car
Tied out by the Wurtemburgian troops
French Losses Important.
twenty-five officers and 1,71o men |
were made prisoners. Eighteen machine
guns. forty mine throwers and one re-
volver cannon was captured The French |
losses were important
TN the Vosges, on Hilfenfirst, we took
an enemy work. Attempts made by the |
enemy to recapture it were repulsed. |
Three officers and 14s men fell into our |
hands.
Eastern theater: Southeast of Kali
wRrya, after stubborn fighting. wo took |
. mine position from the enemy and made |
900 Russian prisoners.
Southeastern theater: After storming
the heights southeast of Bukaszowice,
north Of Halicz. the Russians along the
whole front from the district of Maryam-
pol to Just north of FirjIlow, have been
obliged TO retreat. Troops under General
Won Lnssingen are pursuing the de-
feated enemy.
Cup TO yesterday we had taken 7,765
prisoners, of whom IL are Officers we
-aIso captured eighteen machine guns.
Enemy Driven Back.
THE army OF Field Marshal Won
MackenEen has driven back the enemy !
west OF zamosc. after continuous fight
ing over the Labunka and Por sector and
has crossed these rivers in part. Fur
ther TO the west the enemy position of
the line OF Turobin-K rasni<- Josefow. the
latter place on the Vistula, has been
been reached (Josefow Is town on the
Vistala twenty-five miles north of Sand
omierz. krasnis lies twelve miles east
OF JoSefow and rurobin is twenty-five
miles still further to the east)
The forward positions at stronza and