The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-06-10
TEUIONs NEARING ! !
RUSSIAN BORDER
Armies of Germany and Austria
CONTINUE to Advance With.
out Relaxation.
THREATEN TO TAKE lEMBuRG
Same Tactics that Were Successful
at Przemysl Being Used
Thrilling Air Fight.

London, June S.-If the German
u have transferred troops from the ca
l. to the west. as reported, they ha,
S held sufficient men on the easter
n front to continue without relaxatiC
t the offensive that has carried the
= and the Austrians almost across G.
. licia.
The forces which pinched Przemy'
into surrender are battering their wa
:, eastward and, according to both tn
German and Austrian official commur
ications, are at one point in the soutl
: east hardly more than sixty mile
7 from the Russian frontier. The troop
which swept through Stry have con
| tinued further east until they are thir
ty miles beyond that town and equal
ly beyond Lemberg, the position o
which appears perilous.
Are IS Miles East Of PrzemysI.
Farther north they are eighteen
miles to the east of Przemysl. 81
that, roughly speaking. the encircline
movement on Lemberg is duplicating
that at Przemysl
The Germans also are on the often,
sive in the Baltic provinces Their
ofhcial statement records the crossing
of the River Windau, to the south.
east of Libau.
Active Near Libau.
A Petrograd dispatch received in
London tonight says:
kilograms from Riga report the
Germans active to the north, north
east and east of Libau The military
authorities expect heavy fighting at
Mostseisk, where the Russians will
make determined stand
Battle in Air.
For the first time on record a Zep-
pelin in the air has been destroyed by
an aviator in an aeroplane. Reginald
}. Warneford, young Canadian sub
lieutenant in the royal navy, who
mastered aeroplaning only this sum.
mer, performed the feat and tonight
is somewhere within the British lines,
while the Zeppelin lies in ruins,
sprawling on the roof and grounds Of
an orphanage near Client
Falling there blazing mass after
being struck by the aviator's bombs,
the airship's crew of twenty-eight men
were killed, as also were several occu.
pants of the orphanage buildings.
Capture Turk Trenches.
London, June THE allies in their
offensive on the Gallipoli peninsula on
June captured and held two lines of
Turkish trenches along front of near.
ly three miles. In Mesopotamia the
British forces have received from the
Turks the surrender of Amara and
taken more than 1000 prisoners, thir-
teen guns, gunboat, barges and
steamers. The pursuit of the Turks,
who were dispersed into the marshes,
continues.
AS in all trench warfare, which char
acter the fighting on the Gallipoli
peninsula has assumed, the allies
.ound their general advance hindered
through the inability of part of their
orce to penetrate the wire entangle-
nents which the artillery fire had not I
efficiently destroyed. This left other
'ections of the force open to an en-
llading fire and, therefore, part of the
round gained had to be given up.
some also was lost when the Turks
ounter attacked.
slavs Stop Germans.
Petrograd, June THE forward
Movement of the extreme Russian
light flank operating on Stanai, Yata, U
angina and Lentiwina continues to 8
etard the advance Of the central Aus 8
ro-German forces east of Jaroslau and e
nemysl, which thus far has failed. b
.rawce and Burdzi which are partic- [
larly mentioned In this connection d
re just north of Stanai and Assem- on r
le Lem river. Il
Southwark, the fighting front may
traced by following the San to the b
louth OF the Lvbaczowka and then Is
blowing this river to the village Of G
ukhla, which is twelve miles south. A
ut Of Jaroslau.. Thence the front II G
, . straight line twelve miles east r.
Prxemysl. including the villages Of Of
ainikoR, Kosmenitza and. Krukenit. o.
! to the Dnsister. which marks the q
'uthern front. RI
French Lines Hold.
Paris, June Herman attacks of Of
usual violence were made yester- Ii
y In the region north Of Arras. IN o.
'Fthwestern France. The Trsnch =