Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-10
INVESTMENT OF LEMBERC
IS NEARING COMPLETION
Town Seems Doomed to Fall Again
Into Hands of Teutonic
Allies.
IRON RING GROWS TIGHTER
Stanislau Is Taken by Storm, and
With Its Fall Berlin Believes En-
tire Russian Campaign in Galicia
Has Come to Naught.

Especial! Gable to The Times Dispatch
| LONDON. June 9.-The investment
! of l.emberg is nearing completion ac-
! cording to dispatches from Berlin md
vienna tonight, and the Russians are
| reported 10 be preparing to evacuatc
the city. Terrific fighting, in which
huge numbers arc engaged, continues
along the entire Galician front, with
! the Teutonic allies everywhere sue
ccssful. despite violent Russian coun-
tcrattacks.
The Austro-German right wing has
stormed and captured Stanislau. the
most important railway center i'm
southeastern Galicia. and has cut the
communications of the Russian forces
operating north OF Bukowina with
those around Lemberg
Stanis!au has been in the posse ssion
oil the Russians. with the exception of
few days. since last November. Its
fall is believed in Berlin to mark the
collapse of the entire Russian cam
paiGn in Southeast Gaiicia.
!AUSTRo-GERMAN FORCES
TAKES TOWN BY STORM
Cooperating with the Austro- Ger
man forces along the Dniester. a heavy
force operating from north Of Czerno-
WIZ yesterday advanced to the north
OF kolomca, and, pressing forward to
Stanislau, TOOK the town by storm
This force, according to an official
statement issued in Vienna tonight. is
now driving forward toward Halicz
More than 5000 prisoners have been
taken in the lighting thus far.
The capture OF Stanislau is taken
here 10 indicate that the Austro-Ger-
man offensive against the Russian left
has been successful and that the Rus
slams have been compelled TO fall back
upon their defenses on the Dniester
River. These are of considera BILE nat
urai strength, and have been developed
to their utmost by the SlayA
Regarding ,his lighting, however, un-
official dispatches from Vienna to-
night state that the Austro-Gcrnan
armies have advanced for several miles
beyond the river, and are now east of
Nicholl. Uhlans, ii is stated have
penetrated to within twelve miles of
LemberG itself.
Despite the vigorous Russian resist
ance OH the entire front. ii is assorted
in Berlin that the Teutons are drawing
the same iron ring around Lcmberg
that they drew around Prsemysl, and IL
is declared that the entire Russian
campaign in Cialicia has come to
naught. and that the invaders will he
driven back across their OWE borders
within a comparatively short time
PETROGRAD ADMITS
ADVANCE! OF ENEMY
PetroGrad, in an official statement
received here tonight, reports the re-
pulse of German attacks along the
Dniestcr on the Ugartsberg- Uimatchoff
front and declares that 500 prisoners,
together with number of officers
Were captured. Heavy fighting is
proceeding on the left bank of the
river. the Russian War Office states
The Russians admit progress for the
Germans in their outtlanking drive in
Courland.
This admission on the part of Petro-
grad bears out the German claims TO
considerable advance in this region.
Berlin reports that tho Germans have
occupied the eastern bank OF the
Windau River, northeast OF Kurachany,
and that heavy forces are approaching
Shawl from the southwest On the
Dubissa, ii is stated, the Russian wing
has been hurried back in a south
westerly direction