Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-03
GERMAN RUSH IN
GALICIA ON AGAIN
Both Berlin and Vienna Claim
Progress Along All the.
Eastern Front.
PREPARING TO ATTACK ITALY
Kaiser Expected to Throw Large Force
Across Frontier-Hard Fighting
in Northern France.

London, June 16.-The Austro-Ger-
man rush in Galicia is on again Both
Berlin and Vienna officially lay claim
to progress along virtually the entire
southeastern front and Lemberg
seems again to be in danger.
Mosciska, to the east of Przemysl,
has been captured by the Austro-Ger-
mans and, according to the German
contention, the Russians are falling
back south of the railroad connecting
PrzemysI and Lemberg- All the Rus
sian counter attacks have been re-
pulsed with gains for the Teutons
from a point north of Przemysl into
BeSsarabia.
To Rush Italy.
Far off as this front is from Eng
land and France it is being watched
more closely than the western front,
because it would appear that these OPP
erations are being pressed in an at
tempt to clear Galicia of the Russians,
preparatory to a breathing spell in
the east, which is likely to be followed
by a crushing blow aimed at Italy.
The fighting is growing harder
daily along the Austro-Italian frontier,
and in view of past performances it
is considered reasonable to assume
that Germany will throw great mass
of troops on this front and endeavor
to sweep into Italy and hold ground
there just as she has done in Poland,
Belgium and France.
Bitter Fighting in France.
The fighting in France around Arras.
while bitter and marked by daily at
tack and counter-attack. has reached
the stage where the German and
French official communications fatty
contradict each other On the whole,
it is believed here, the advantage has
been with the French.
That England is prepared for long
siege operations in the Dardanelles, is
indicated in an official statement just
issued explaining the nature of the
tedious trench warfare prevailing, al
though asserting that the Turkish Of
fensive is not so sharp as it was for
merly.
Almost complete returns for the
general elections assure a war parlia-
ment for Greece, although with the
king still in a precarious condition
and the chamber not due to meet for
more than a month, no immediate
are expected.
Germans Claim Victory.
London, June 15.-Today Germany
claimed another decided success along
the eastern line. Northwest of Mos
ciska, in the region of Sieniawa, the
German report said that along a line
extending over forty-three miles the
entire positions of the Russians were
taken and that 10000 prisoners fell
into their hands.
The Russian official report, how
ever, only mentioned the locality
where this action is said to have TAX
en- place in paragraph which de-
clared that the Austro-Germans, after
heavy losses in the region of Moscis-
ka Friday and Saturday, did not re-
sumo the offensive.
According to Petrograd, the Austro-
Germans have made another crossing
of the Dniester. where a brilliant cav
airy charge at Yale Szczyky resulted
in a local Russian success, but no
claim is made that the invaders were
pushed back across the river. A cross
ing of the river at this place may not
be q serious affair for the Russians, as
1t is remote from Lemberg and an adj
vance from it might expose the Aus
tro-German flank
On the western front the French
continue their battering tactics against
formidable German positions, with
some assistance from the Belgians
who have thrown a battalion across
the User to the east bank. where south
of the Dixmude railway bridge they
destroyed German blockhouse. They
claim that they have retained this po
sition despite German counter attacks
Rumania Ready to Enter.
Rome, June ia dispatch to the
Giornale d'Italia from Sofia says:
M. Filipesco. leader of the Ruman
ian conservatives, declared today thai
the quadruple entente powers (Greaf
Britain, France, Russia and Italy
have agreed to the demands of Ru
mania. Therefore. a definite conclu
sion of an understanding for the in
tervention of Rumania in the war i.
imminent