Evening star., 1915-06-17
FIERCE ATTACK MADE
IN RUSSIAN POLAND
Teutons Also Pushing Back Cars
Forces in Baltic
Provinces.
TAKE SEVERAL VILLAGES
Petrograd Reports Severe Repulsss
for Foe on the Dneister-Ger-
manic Allies Have $500, 900
Men, Is Claim.

LONDON, July 17.-Gen. Won
Maekensen's army, driving due
eastward across the San to the
north of Przemysl, is already half
way from the river to Lemberg.
Gen. Won Mackensen has fixed
July I for the arrival of an Aus
tro-German army in Lemberg,
which is the Galician capital.
The Russians have abandoned
their positions to the north of
Sleniawa, on the San, and have
retreated toward Tarnogrod, in
Russian Poland, according to the
official statement given out today
by the German army headquar-
ter's staff.
On the Dniester the Teutonic
forces have suffered several Sc
we're repulses, but their check
thus far has not been of sufficient
moment to offset Russian losses.
If Gen. Won Mackensen keeps to
his schedule it is probable the
Russians will be compelled to
withdraw from the Dniester.
They may also be forced to Ne
treat on the wide front in CEN
trail Poland.
The campaign against the Rus
slams, on which the Germans are
now concentrating their offensive
efforts, is developing in a violent
attack in Russian Poland.
At the same time the Germans
are pushing back the Russians in
the Baltic provinces.
Decisive Battle in Progress.
According to the Overseas News
Agency in Berlin a decisive battle
from which important results are ex-
pected is now in progress all along
| the Russian front. 1t says:
| German forces along the Rawka riv-
| er Central Russian Poland. west of
Warsaw) have no wtaken the often.
sive." says the announcement from the
| news agency. The German battle
line in Poland, GaIicia and Bukowina
is LOO kilometars sS2 miles long.
German and Austrian forces are at
| tacking the enemy in a decisive bat.
tie and big results are expected"
Russia Admits Losses.
An official communication from Pet
rograd contains the admission that the
Germans have occupied additional viii
lagos near Shawl. in the Baltic region.
but states that the Russians regained
lost ground near Prsasynsz. 1t is in
the vicinity of Przasnysz. which lies
to the north of Warsaw, that the Ger
mans apparently are making their
most determined effort on the Polish
front, although the fortress of Osso-
wetZ is again being attacked.
The Galician campaign has reached a
critical stage. in view of the continued
successes of the Austrians and Germans
The Petrograd communication says little
of the battle along the San, but states
the Russians have won some advantage
in the fighting further south. in the
Dniester region.
Austrians Gain on San.
Special dispatches from the Austrian
headquarters report that the Teutonic
allies are pushing the Russians vigorous
ly from the San river to the Bessarabia
frontier. The latest operations are said
to have resulted in bringing Gen. Macken-
sens forces in contact with Gen. Linsin-
gen and Gen P6anzer
Heavy fighting is proceeding along the
whole line in Galicia, but the maximum
apparently has not yet been reached, ac-
cording to Vienna advices. The Russians
are bringing all their available forces,
consisting partly of fresh recruits to re-
sist the advance of the Germanic allies
Germans Have 2,soO,ooo Men.
Reuters Petrograd correspondent
says the Russian military critics esti
mate the total Austro- German forces
operating against the Russians as not
less than forty-fve German and
twenty-six Austrian army corps (about
$500 900 mem. 1t is asserted that four
teen or fifteen German army corps
l56OOO to 600, 900 men) are operating
Galicia, in addition to the Austrian
troops, while it is believed probable
that the Germans have seven army
corps (2SO,000 mem in the Baltic pro-
vinces.
The correspondent adds that the Rech
saws 1t anticipates that the Austro-
Germans will attempt a direct advance
from the west upon Lemberg COM
bined with a wide sweeping movement
to the northeast in the direction of
Rawa.
Possible Results Cited.
The Times military correspondent
comments on the struggle In Galicia as
controlling the character of the whole
campaign for months to come. He says:
.If the Austro Germans succeed in
driving the Russians out OF Cd cia or
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|.