Evening star., 1915-06-11
LOSSES OF THE ENEMY
HEAVY, SAYS PETROGRAD
Austrians Declared to Have Retreat
ed Over River at Two Points in
Fierce Fighting.
HARD BLOW COMES SUDDENLY
At No Point Along Galician Front
Have Kaiser's Men Made Recent
Gains, It Is De-
clared.'

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tro-German forces threatening
Lemberg from the southeast have
been checked in their advance.
German correspondents at the
front admit this.
Russia has delivered a return
blow and hard one. The great
masses of German and Austrian
troops which have forced a pas
sage of the Dniester river near
Zurawna, according, to the latest
announcement of the Russian
war Office, have been flung back
with heavy losses in both men
and material.
Thus for the moment Lemberg
is thought to be safe. for nowhere
else along the Galician front have
the Teutonic allies been making
progress recently. with the excep-
ton, of course, of their southern
extension into Bukowina.
News was received yesterday
that Russian reinforcements were
moving south along the Dniester
river from Mikolaiow to Rohatyn,
but it was hardly expected here
that they would achieve such
quick results.
If this victory has been decisive
it is the first real check delivered
by the Russians since the start
of the new Austro-German rush
through Galicia.
Large Captures by Russians.
After hard fighting the Russians have
taken from their antagonists seventeen
cannon and forty mine machine guns. and
captured approximately 800 officers and
men in the fierce battle along the River
Dniester.
A dispatch from Innsbruck. in the Aus
trian Tyrol. purports to give details Of
Russian successes in the Galicia cam
paign. The dispatch says:
THE Russians bombarded the Austrian
positions from Stanislau to Bortnik, on
driven the AustHans across the river.
making large number Of prisoners The
Austrians also have been obliged to fall
back across the Dniester at Bukaszowice.
The Russians stopped the advance OF an
Austrian column marching on kolomea.
The action was fierce and the losses
heavy on both Sides
German1c Allies Checked.
The forward movement eastward from
Przemysl has been temporarily check
ed, pending the reduction by artillery
Of strong Russian positions at Mescis-
ka, according to German correspon-
dent.
The bulk of the Austro-German
troops are concentrated to the east Of
Przemysl with a view to marching
unon Lemberg in a direct line from the
west, but the persistent violence of the
German assault from the Dniester
gives this movement equal importance.
It is estibated that twenty army corps
are operating in the former districts
and nine in the latter. In the Galfcian
fghting the Russians are said to be
two to one.
Germans Continue Attempt.
The German attempt to move up on
Lemberg has been continued energet-
ically from the direction of Przemysl
and the Dniester river. according to
Petrograd The movements of these
two forces are being widely separated
by the Dniester: thhe marches have an
almost separate character. although the
same objective.
From the west the German advance
Is being made along the River Wisznia,
i tributary of the San. debouching near
Jaroslau. but. providing this movement
continues, Russian critics are of the
opinion that it will encounter insuper-
able obstacles at Grodek, which, with
the chain of lakes and the Dniester
,wamps, offers natural protection to
Lemberg from assault from the west.
storming Three Points.
From the southern quarter the Ger
mans are storming Mikolaiow, Julakow
md Juravno. three important points on
he Dniester. controlling the principal
oads to Lemberg.
According to Eugen Lennhon. cor
.espondent at Austrian headquarters
4 the Berlin Mittag Zeitung, the COM
,ined offensive OF Gems. Won Lnsingen
md Pdanxer 10 creating q new phase
4 the Galician campaign. A few days
go the front was somewhat north OF
Jadworna and Kolmea, but 1t now runs
rom Kulaczkowce, which lies north
vest Of Sniatyn, through Koxow, along
he railroad running between kolomea
nd Otynia and northwestward.
otynia Heights Taken.
'aThe heights of Otynia." says the cor
espondent. were captured after heavy
Ighting. The advance Of the past few
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