Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-07-17
Russians Forced to Retreat
Across the GniIa Lipa in
Southeast GaIicia.
GREAT BRITAIN ANXIOUS NOW
Press Voices Hope that sIav Army
viii Soon Find Stopping Place
Gain in DardaneIIes.

London, June 3Q.-Drlven back over
their own frontier north of Lemberg
and forced to cross the River Gnila
Lipa in southeast Galicia, the Russian
armies continue to retreat before the
Austro-Germans along a front of ap-
proximately $50 miles.
The Berlin official communication
records progress by the Teuton troops
in virtually the entire southeastern
theater, although violent fighting is
still in progress beyond the Gnila Lipa,
which joins the Dniester at Halicz.
Germans Keep On.
Having forced passage of this
stream, General Won Linsingen's army
is presumably astride the railway rum
ming from HaIicz to Lemberg and
Stanislau, and now doubtless is aim
ing at the line which runs from Lem
berg to Odessa through Harnopol.
1t seems evident that Germany is
bent on further punishment for the
Russians before relaxing the intensity
of her Galician campaign, but with
the Russians across the frontier the
Germans will have to rely almost sole
ly on road transport and their ad-
vances will necessarily be slower.
Britons Sound Warning.
hope that the Russians will soon find
a tenable line and deliver a counter
blow, but there is a note of anxiety
in nearly all their accounts, together
with the warning that either the cap
ture of Warsaw or the seizure of the
great railway lines which supply it
would be disastrous to Russia and
surely would be followed by another
Notwithstanding the French attacks
around Arras, it is argued that the
Germans must feel comparatively Sc
cure in the West else they would not
have risked their tremendous envelop-
ing move against the Russians. The
French are persisting in their assaults
in the neighborhood of Arras, but with
out appreciate change in the situa-
ton.
Allies Gain in Dardanellees.
Rome, June 3O.-The correspondent
of the Piccolo in a message from Con-
otantinople, via Sofia, cables:
Il have just received authentic
news that action of Anglo-French fleet
in Dardanelles has been renewed with
great violence and is meeting with
important success"
Russian Retreat Orderly.
London, June 29.-With the Russian
emperor on the Galician front, a new
minister of war, General Polivanoff, in
charge of Russian military affairs and
the grand dukes lines still intact,
there is general expectation that the
Russian forces will yet oppose strong
resistance to the Austro-Germans,
whose sweep along the southeastern
cart of CIalicia StiI1 continues
The latest advices virtually agree
that the Russian retreat has been an
orderly one, although obliged to evac-
uate such important towns as Lem
berg, Mikolaiow and Halicz, but this,
it is estimated by Petrograd, has been
for the purpose of seeking better de-
fensive positions which the nature of
the country further to the east affords.
In this withdrawal movement hard
battles have been fought and the Rus
slams rear guards have contested
stubbornly every mile of territory the
Austro-Germans have gained.
No Transfer to the West.
So far as can be learned, the leu
tonic allies are not transferring any of
their eastern forces to the western
zone, but are devoting all their men
and strength to the Galician campaign
and to a further attempt to strike at
Warsaw, the Polish capital.
Describing the Russian retreat on
the Gnila Lipa River June &c, the Rus
sian war office says:
zowice-Halicz 'front.'
The latest Russian official commun-
ication indicates that serious battle
is being fought on the left bank of the
Vistula, in Poland, where, in attacks
in the Ozarow district, particularly
against the town of Gliniany, the Aus
TRANS were repulsed and suffered
great losses
In the western theater comparative
calm prevails, no important gains or
actions being reported by either side.
italians to DardaneIies.
Paris, June 29.-Announcement was
made at the French ministry of war
today that according to the Italian
press Italy has broken diplomatic re-
iations with Turkey. Italy, it is added,
will send troops to the Dardanelles