Evening star., 1915-06-28
VIENNA AND BERLIN
TELL OF SUCCESSES
Declare Muscovites Are Still Falling
Back-New Drive on War.
saw Begun.
PETR0GRAD CLAIMS VICTORY
Claims Teutonic Defeat on the Me
men and of Failure of Offen-
sive Before the Pol
ish Capital.

PETROGRAD, June 2S,via Lon
don, 2 p.m.-Of6cers of the Rus
sian general staff now state that
they have satisfactorily achieved
the regrouping of their forces
necessitated by the German Cali
clan campaign, and that they
stand ready effectively to oppose
a further advance of the Austro-
German forces in Galicia or in
southern Russia.
The Gnila Lipa river to which the
Russian forces have retired, flows south
from above Rohatyn, branching from
the Dneister river near Halicz, and,
with steep banks and bluffs provides
admirable facilities for defense.
further eastward the Zlota Lipa, an
other tributary of the Dniester and
paralleling the Gnila Lipa at a distance
OF fifteen miles. would. in the opinion
of Russian critics. offer even 4 strong
er obstacle to a German advance, since
besides having natural advantages 1t is
supported with good railroad line.
Hold Germans Back.
The most important point of the pres
ent front Is that portion of the Vistula
just north OF the River San Here the
Germans in considerable numbers are
attempting to force the river and by
SO doing flank the Russian positions
along the Tanew. which as yet have
cI,a cio ~ -a1j
al attack.
The wooded approach to the river at
this point allows the Germans sue
cessfully to mask their operations and
to conceal their batteries, but the rec
ord of the fighting up to Saturday
been gained by the Germans.
The Importance of this move is we'll
recognized by the Russians. since II
successful it would unite the German
forces on the left side of the Vistula
with those operating on the other side,
in Lublin province, against the Tanew
front
German activity appears to be limited
at present to the Dniester and Vistula
rivers. In the region of Lemberg no
serious fighting has been reported.
Berlin Tells of Resistance.
BERLIN, via London, June 2s-Aus-
tro-German forces on the Bukowina
front have had to resist heavy Russian
attacks the last two days, but these
assaults have been repulsed every
where by the troops under Gems. Phan-
zer and Baltin, according to the Ca
licia correspondent of the Lokai An
zeiger The Russians in this region
are using artillery much more freely
than at other points.
The Austro- -Hungarians and Gen. Won
Iinsingen's army have made further
advances on the north bank or the
Dniester, the correspondent says. no
asserts the Russians succeeded IN gam
ing ground temporarily at one point.
hut later were compelled to abandon
these gains. A.
AT other points on the front the
armies of Archduke Joseph Ferdinand,
Field Marshal Won Mackensen and Gen.
Won Boehm- Ermolli are syStematicall!
working their way eastward
The town of Halicz in Galicia. on the
Dniester river. has been occupied by
German troops ofsc,a sss,des statemeut dne anl
nounces that the River Dniester has
been crossed by the Germans along the
entire front.
VIENNA. June IS, via London.-The
Russian forces which for several days
made a determined stand at positions
to the east of Lemberg. were again IN
retreat this morning along the entire
front in that region. according TO An
official statement issued touas py tne
austro- Hungarian general stan. Fight
;np on the upper Dniester river, the
statement says, continues.
Drive on Warsaw Begun.
LONDON, June 2S.-The Germans
have launched another attack against
warsaw in the form of a drive from
the north through Przasnysz
The new blow at the Polish capital
hos beeu preceded by terrific artil-
,erv action. The fact is recorded by
,,. Russians themselves, but it is too
.,r,v to saw whether it means serious
offansiye the first clash having devel-
oned a bayonet encounter. the result OF
which neither side records.
erence to the conflict in this region,
combining their statemets to the Cali
cian situation, where victories are
claimed in various sections, from the
Ressarabian frontier to Rawa Ruska.
north of Lemberg.
What is more important the Germans
claim that the Teutonic forces have
crossed the Dniester northwest of
Halicz and have driven the Russians
some miles into the hills.
The present consensus of opinion
among military writers in London is
that Germany intends further to press
her ca stern victories with another bat
an endeavor to seize that city and the
whole line of the Vistula.
The line of offensive now directed
from the Przasnysz region is along the
valleys of the Omulew and Orzyc, trib-
utaries of the River Narrow, which
the bend of the Vistuia above Warsaw.