The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-03
RUSSIAN FORCES
STILL FALL BACK
Retreat of Defeated SIaV Army
From Lemberg Goes on
Unchecked.
GERMANS CROSS THE DRIESTER
But Battle at that Point Has Not Been
SettIed-Big Guns Again Are
Bombarding DunI<irk.

London, June 25.-The Russians are
still retreating in the east; the French
are gaining slowly at certain points
on the western front.
With the fires set by the retreating
Russians still burning, the AustrO-
Germans are now firmly established at
Lemberg and have shown no sign Of
ceasing their offensive.
The battle of the Dniester, to the
south Of the city, is not yet over, but,
according to Berlin, General Linsingen
has been able to throw his forces
across the river, fact which is taken
in some quarters to presage another
Russian defeat
With Galicia all but cleared Of Rus
slams, the weight Of Austro-German
forces released in that theater must
soon be felt somewhere, but opinions
are divided as to whether it will be
on the western front or in Poland.
Lemberg is celebrating the return of
the Austrians, and Vienna has not yet
ceased her revelry at the Tecapture Of
the city. Petrograd, meanwhile, con-
tinues to depreciate the military i'm
portance OF the achievement, profess
ing confidence that it will have no
bearing on the ultimate outcome Of
the war.
The first day Of David Lloyd
Georges appeal for munition workers
seems to indicate that an adequate
number is being enrolled The whole
country is now in the throes Of a re-
cruiting campaign more intense than
any previous appeal for fighters at the
front.
Bombard Dunkirk Again.
Dunkirk, France, June 25.-Thirty-
six tons OF explosives and metal were
fired into Dunkirk yesterday from the
German positions somewhere behind
Dixmude. Several civilians were
killed or wounded, and considerable
material damage was done, but not
single shell reached the port or any
other point of military Importance.
The impression on the inhabitants
differed in no way from that made by
preceding bombardments, and the first
trains out of the city today carried no
more than the usual number of traY-
eIers.
The streets were strewn in many
places with broken plate glass,
crushed paving stones and other de-
bris before the work OF clearing away
began.
Fall of Lemberg a Hard Blow.
London, June 24.-The Russians
have lost Lemberg. They occupied
the Galician capital early in Septem-
Der and held it continuously until
Tuesday, when the combined AustTo-
German forces compelled them to re-
hn Oft ioT, ie
sixty odd miles due west from the
nearest point of the Russian frontier.
Whether the fall Of Lemberg means
that the Russian army operating
south of It in southeast Galicia is ef-
fectively cut OF from the army to the
north, stretching across Poland to the
Baltic, cannot yet be said. The news
papers of both Vienna and Berlin say
this is the case, and that Russian
arms received a blow from which they
cannot recover.
If the stroke proves as crushing as
the Teutons predict, its effect, mill
tary observers here say, soon should
be felt in the transfer of vast German
forces to the West, where for days
the Germans have been hard pressed
by the French.
A Russian official announcement re-
ceived tonight confirms the evacuation
of Lemberg by the cars forces Pre-
viOus dispatches from the Russian cap
ital related details Of what purported
to be the systematic withdrawal Of the
Russians from the town, and If these
details should prove correct, it is be
Heved in military circles here that
when the count is taken Of the Austro-
German booty, it will be not large.
Supplies Taken Away.
As was the case at Przemysl the
Russians are said to have worked hard
to move everything Of military value.
The news Of the fall of Lemberg was
known on the continent yesterday, but
it did not reach London until late this
afternoon, when bulletins arrived al
most simultaneously by wireless from
Berlin and Vienna by way Of Amster-
dam.
Celebrate the Victory.
London, June 24.-The news Of the
fall OF Lemberg produced an outburst
Of wild joy throughout Austria and
Germany, says a dispatch from AM
sterdam to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. All Berlin is flag bedecked.
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