Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-06-30

TO FIGHT TO FINISH
emilia River is Crossed and Won Lin,
singer is Said to be Astride Great
Railway Line.

Petrograd, June 30-Admission is
frankly made by the war office today
that there have been further with
drawals of the Russian forces before
the advancing Austro-German ar
mics.
But there is no evidence that the
morale of the Russian army has been
weakened. The military observers
here are confident that Russian stra-
tegy has inflicted tremendous losses
on the enemy without weakening the
power of effectiveness of the grand
dukes war machine for the ultimate
drive.
Premier Goremykin has issued the
following manifesto:
with the help of God, Russia will
Continue the fight until her enemies
a.'e completely crushed. Until that
time peace is impossible"
The manifesto is generally CON
strued as an answer to statements
appearing in the German press that
Russia is weary of the war and ready
TO sue for peace.
"on all sides We find assurance tha,
cannot be shaken in brilliant fu-
ture for Russian arms" the premier
declared. "Let us strengthen our
hearts and our resolution to carry
on the struggle with divine help un-
til our triumph is completed.
"With firm faith in the inexhaus-
tible strength of Russia, I anticipate
that governmental institutions, Rus
sian Industries, and the faithful Sons
of the Fatherland, without class dis
tihctions, will work in harmony tc
meet the needs of the army. Hence.
forth this is our only probleha-tc
direct all our thoughts to a united
Russia, inyincible in her unity.
London, June 3O-Driven back over
their own frontier north of Lembere
and forced to crdss the river Gnils
Lipa, in Southeast Galicia, the Rus
sian armies continue to retreat be-
fore the sAustro-German forces alon:
front of approximately $50 miles
Berlin records progress in virtual
ly 1.-The entire southeastern theater
although, violent fighting still Fis il
progress beyond the Gnila Lipa which
joins the Dniester at Halicz.,
!Having forced passage of thi
stream, General Won Linsingen's arm!
is presumably astride the railway run
ming from ,Halicz to Lemberg ant
stanislau, ana now doubtless is aim
ing at the line which runs from Lem
berg to Odessa through Tarnopol.
1t seems evident that Germany /
bent on further punishment for tn
Russians before relaxing the inten
/. sity of her Galician campaign bu
with the Russians across the trontle
the Germans will have to rely a
most solely on road transport, an
their advance will be slower.
The British; press still voices tn
hope that the Russians soon will nm
a tenable line and deliver countel
blow but there is note OF anNlee
in nearly all the accounts, togetne
with the warning that either tr
capture of Warsaw or the seizure
the great railway lines which supp
it would be disastrous to Russia, al
surely would be followed by anoth'
general German offensive in the WeS'
Notwithstanding the French attach
around Arras, it is argued that tt
Germans, must feel comparativel
secure in the west, else they wou
not have risked their tremendous e
veloping move against the Russian
The French are persisting in the
assaults in the neighborhood of Arr'
but without appreciable change to t,
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