The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-22
Admitting Slavs Are Retiring, Pc
trograd Says Resistance To
Germanic Advance "a Costing
Nctofs Out o. An Proportion
ENvELoPlNG MOVEMENT
4 THREATENS TEUToNICS
Forces Of Gar Prepare For
Mighty Offensive That May Re-
verse Whole Situation In East:
Bulgaria and Rumania To Join
Associates Press BY Federal wirols.s.)

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7 ONDON, June 10.-Although it is
- admitted that the Russians are
falling back before the onslaughts Of
the Austro. Germans in Galieia, the re.
sistahce to the Teutonic advance Is bit.
ter and the victors are suffering cas-.
ualties wholly out of proportion to the
gains in territory they are making.
During the past two days Of fighting
near Stry, the German and Austrian
losses in killed and wounded have
amounted to tens of thousands, while
the casualties among the Teutons along
one big sector of the Galician front, in
the various engagements between May
20 and juno IS, are estimated in the
official Petrograd dispatches as be
tween 100000 and 10000.
German Right Threatened
On the extreme left, the Russian line
has been driven back across the Rus
sian.Galician border, with the Aus
TRANS pressing on in pursuit, while the
Russian center, according to the Petro-
grad claims, is being advanced against
the Germans, with the possibility that
the Teutonic right may be cut of from
ing movement, or forced into a dis
asst, ons retreat, such as the Germans
were obliged to make when the French
brought up a fresh force against Won
Kluck's right in the initial advance
upon Paris. Already the strategy of
the Russian commander is being COM
pared to that of General Joffre in the
first big drive of the war.
Bulgaria and Rumania
Another great feature of the situa
ton in the East is the probability Of
the immediate entry Of Bulgaria and
Rumania into the war upon the side of
the Allies. Rumania, according to ap-
PGrently well-grounded report, reached
an agreement with the Quadruple En-
tente some days ago, and yesterday it
Was reported that Bulgaria had also
reached an agreement and is preparing
to launch an immediate attack upon the
AuStrians in Cali conjunction
with the Rumanians.
Bulgarian Rumanian army could
he hurled across the Rumanian border di-
rectly in the rear of the Austrian force
operating against the Russians in Blu
kOwina, while, through Servia, a Bull
garian.Servian invasion of Hungary
could be male, in cooperation with the
Italian drive against Southern Austria.
The entry of Bulgaria and Rumania in
the war on the side of the Allies would
complete the ring around Austro- Hun.
gary.
Russians Burn villages
The Berlin and Vienna dispatches
state that the Russians have been
forced back in both Eastern Galicia and
Northern Galicia, with the Russians
holding prepared positions at Grodek.
In retiring upon this last defense of
Lemberg, the Russians burned all the
villages en- route and advised the inhab-
itants to leave the devastated section.
The Berlin dispatches state that it is
expected that the decisive engagement
Of the Galician campaign will be fought
out before Grodek.
Up to the fourteenth, in the Galician
drive, states report from the German
army headquarters in the field, the Teu
tones have taken 1911 900 Russian pris-
oaers.
The latest Petrograd reports sent out
state that the battle for the posses
sion of GTodek, which is some fifteen
miles southwest of Lemberg, is already
well under way, with the Russians
driving back the attempts to capture
the trenches. The battle is described
us the most desperate of the many
fought for the possession of Lemberg
Petrograd Denies Defeat
Petpogtad, in long review Of the re-
cent Galician operations, admits that
the Russians have fallen back, but de.
MES that there has been anything in
the nature Of defeat, the retirement
having been effected for stragetic rea.