The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-30
FALL BACK ON
ENTIRE LINE
Only Narrow Strip of Cali
clan Territory Remains
i'm Russians Hands
ONE MORE BATTLE
ON 3O-MILE FRONT
Grand Duke Nicholas Expected to
Make Another Big Stand = Austro-
German Forces Expect to Turn At
tention Seriously Toward Warsaw.

LONDON, June 30-Only a narrow
slice of Galician territory remains in
the hands of the Russians, according to-
dispatches from Petrograd, Berlin and
Vienna. Beginning at Tomaszow, Rus
sian Poland, which was taken by the
Austrians and Germans yesterday, the
Russian battle line now is the chord of
an arc 100 miles in length its southern
base being Bessarabia, the line follow
ing the Bug river to the east of Lem
berg and thereafter the Zlota Lipa and
finally the Dniester.
All other portions of Galieia, with
the immensely valuable oil fields, cop
per and lead mines, were finally cleared
of Muscovites yesterday, when the
German forces succeeded in occupying
the territory north of Rawa Ruska,
driving the Russians out of the Tanew
district If Russian Poland. The Gal
ician towns remaining in Russian hands
are Tarnow, Busk, Bredy and Zalozce,
with the very short railroad close to
the Russian border.
Official dispatches from Petrograd
say that before Grand Duke Nicholas
finally relinquishes possession of Aus
| trian territory there win be one more
| battle upon front 30 miles east and
northeast of Lemberg upon strongly
fortified line previously prepared.
Berlin dispatches continue to re-
count German successes. The army of
Gen. Won Linsingen which has been so
| strongly opposed by the army of Gen.
| Ivanoff along the Dniester, has at last
broken down the resistance. The Rus
slams who attempted to defend a line
/
retire and it is believed they have
| withdrawn fourteen miles east to the
Zlota Lipa. There they are endeavor-
ing to straighten their line and effect
a junction with the Russian armies
holding a little strip in Bukowina and
the armies of the Grand Duke in the
north. Berlin says fighting is contin
uing over every foot of ground with
| success rewarding their arms.
/ Gen. Won Mackensen Strengthened
out his lines east of Lemberg. Begin
ming at Przemyslany, southeast OF
Lemberg, he ran his line almost due
north to Kamionka, and is now threat
ening Busk and the Bug River.
/ The official statement issued IN Der
lin is as follows:
''The army under Gen Won Linsin
gen defeated the enemy during pur
suit along the entire front betweel
Halicz and Firjelow and drove then
across the emilia Lipa River. In thi
{ section the fighting continues. Furthe
to the north, in the Przemyslany, TIN
town of Kamionka, twenty Ave mile
northeast of Lemberg, has, Seen reach
ed by our troops. To she north o
Kamionka the enemy did not avail
our attack, but retreated across tn
River Bug at a point below Kamionka
'fIn section to the north am
northeast of Mostly Wilekie, abou
thirty miles north of Lemberg, an
also to the northeast and west o
Tomaszow the enemy offered resist
ance. Everywhere he was defeated
Here we are now on Russian territory
ri (Tomaszow is in Poland)
E'Under the pressure Of our advane
in this district the enemy is beginin
to evacuate his position in the Tame,
| section and ON the lower San
The final clearing of Galician terri
4 tory to the north and northeast of r;
I'll wa Ryska was thoroughly in line wit
b | the steamroller tactics pursued by til
III Germans throughout the campaign. III
al Russians had made stand along til
,fl Polish border and in the Tanew rive
s | district. The overwhelming heavy a
ri tillery and the $500 pound SODA shell
It'll forced the Russians to retire. 1t is M
thought likely they can hold the
present positions east and north
Tomaszow.
- The general situation now seems
III be that with another victory east
II Lemberg the Austro- German forces WI
H be in q position to turn their attentft
HI seriously toward Warsaw if that is Il
HI plan of the general staff. They ha,
II their armies north of the Vistul
Hi around Przasnysz, to the west in Il
II Bzura river region and in the south
II the pilitza region and at Tomaszow.