Evening star., 1915-07-04
MAKE FURTHER ADVANCE
IN ZLOTA LIPA REGION
Slav Military Experts Now Believe
That Galician Campaign
Has Ended.
DEFEAT IS EXPECTED
Growing Impetus Of Teutons May
Not Be Checked Unless Entente
Allies Strike in Other
Arenas.

LONDON, July 3.-The armies
of Emperor William and Emperor
Francis Joseph continue their
impetuous drive against the forces
of Emperor Nicholas along a
front measuring approximately
$50 miles in southern Russian
Poland and in Galicia.
The Teutonic troops, according
to the German statement, have
gained possession of the low
lands of Labunka, in the Russian
province of Lublin, despite stub
born resistance, and also have
advanced in pursuit of the fleeing
Russians in the Zlota Lipa section
of Galicia.
Petrograd admits the retire
ment of the Russians across the
Gnila Lipa, and explains that the
retrograde movement further to
the north was caused by strong
aanking operations of the Austro-
Germans against the Russian
positions in the Tanew region,
making them untenable. Russian
military experts profess to be-
lieve that the Galician campaign
now is ended.
Two seventy-Fivs-Mile Fronts.
Tho present alignment Of the tre-
mendous forces engaged in Galicia and
southern Russia is roughly divisible
into two seventy-fiv fronts. one
running north from Halicz and the
Gnila Lipa river and the other travel
ing east from the junction of the San
and Vistula rivers. Together the fronts
form an obtuse angle at Sokal. on tho
River Bug, and on the Galician side OF
the Russian border.
Although the Germans recently
gained new positions to the north Of
Halicz, where they fortified the left
bank Of the Gnila Lipa. preponder-
ance Of the forces and tho chief energy
Of the Austro-Germans were employed
at tho north end to advance into the
province Of Lublin and Kholm along
front extending from the Vistula to the
Bug river.
Making Steady Progress.
In this region. especially in the east
ern half between the River vieprz and
the Bug. the Germans are making
steady, IL not spectacular. progress. The
been characterized by pitched battles,
but they consist chiefly OF rear guard
actions. followed by Russian counter
attacks and orderly retirement.
retreat from Tanew as 80 artistic and
secret" that there we're scarcely any
rear guard battles. This retreat was
caused. military experts say. by the
progress of the Austro-Germans to-
ence of considerable forces along the
Vistula. Being hanked on both sides.
the Russian Tanew position became
untenable.
by Russian officers to have como to an
end, and the new alignment of forces
IA intended as a defense of Russian
territory against invasion.
Decisive Defeat Expected.
Although the retreatins Russian
armies must be considered as yet to be
virtually intact, the growing rowing impetus m .nus
that a decisive Russian defeat seems
inevitable. according to British mill
tary experts, unless the entente powers
initiate a powerful diversion on the
Italian or the western front. Some of
the most conservative British news
papers assert that this alone can oom-
pei Germany to withdraw mon from
the eastern theater, barring. perhaps,
a sudden shortage in high explosives,
the supply Of which will flow to the
front more irregularly as the railways
become less and less available.
May Have to Fight Hard.
Neither to the north Of Lembsrg,
Galicia, nor to the southeast do the
Russians appear to be trying to offer
serious resistance, but unless the ap-
proaches to Warsaw are to be left un-
protected, military observers say. the
forces Of Grand Duke Nicholas. the
Russian commander in chief. must
soon do some stubborn fighting over
tho southern Poland frontier. while his
extreme left in Galicia must match
this in rapid retirement II it is to
avoid a critical predicament
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