, 1915-06-24
LAST LEMBERG
DEFENSE FALLS
AUsTRo-GERMANS BREAK DOWN
ALL BARRIERS AND CAP
TuRE GRoDEK.
SAY ARSHIP SANK us
NEXT BATTLE is FOR GALIcIAN
CAPITAL AND SLAV STAND
TO DECIDE CRISIS.

western Newspaper Union News scryi:c.
Vienna (via London), June 21.-The
Russians have been in general re-
treat since 3 O'Clock this morning
along their entire front, after having
been forced out of their position on
the Werezyca river a short distance to
the west of Lemberg.
London. - The strongly fortified
Galician town of Grodek, where 1t was
predicted the Russians would make a
stubborn stand, has fallen before the
Austro-G German assault, according to
an Austrian official statement. The
river Tanew, believed to be another
strong barrier. has been crossed; koT
marno, only a few miles south of Gro
dek, has been taken, and the Austro-
German forces are within less h a
days march of Lemberg. the capital
of Galicia, seventeen miles away This,
if the success of the Teutons contin-
ues, means the early fall of Lemberg,
These claims were forecast in the
German official statement from Berlin
which preceded hat from Vienna.
The Berlin official statement assert
ed that the GrodelE positions were be-
ing attacked, the Russians to the north
r%etreating as far north as the Tanew
line. The Austrians subsequently re-
corded the fall of Grodek and claimed
that the south bank of the Tanew had
been cleared of Russians.
After seven weeks battering across
Galicia. during which the Russians
have been thrown back more than
day as close to Lemberg as were the
Germans to Paris after their first
dash across France last fall.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
that the German Emperor himself has
taken supreme command of the Cali
clan campaign, establishing his head
quarters at Pless in Silesia, as neal
to the front as practicable.
A resume of the Galician situation
from Petrograd said that the then ex-
listing disposition of the Russian forces
in the vicinity of Lemberg mean a
crisis and that the holding or losing
of the line should determine the fate
of the Galician capital.
The British admiralty has an
nounced officially that the German
submarine U-29, which was sunk the
latter part of March. fell a victim to
a British warship, the name of which
is not disclosed.
The 2,000-ton British steamer Dulcie.
was torpedoed and sunk off Suffolk.
The members of the crew, with n
exception, were saved.
Allied airmen dropped bombs on the
German balloon sheds at Brussels,
causing slight damage.
The small Italian merchant steamer
Maria Grecia was sunk by an Austrian
torpedo boat in the Adriatic. The
crew was put ashore near Shawl
beach.
Peace Soon II | Wish It."-kaiser.
Paris.-Extracts from a letter said
to have been sent by the Emperor to
a parsonage connected with the Ba-
varian court, and published in Spain,
are reproduced by the Matin. The EN-
peror is quoted as saying. in part:
Our only object is a peace profit
able for the German states. This
peace may be concluded sooner than
thought. If it gave for the time be-
ing only an incomplete result, it would
at least serve as a preparation for the
future. 1t could be signed tomorrow
If l wished
When my august grandfather
placed the empire on its present basis
he did not pretend to have realized a
completed work. The empire always
is susceptible of growth. What can
not be achieved today will be achieved
later"