Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-24
Berlin and Vienna Reports
Claim Cars Army Is Sew
cred and Generalization
Cannot Be Avoided
LONDON BELIEF is THAT
RETIREMENT WAS ORDERLY
Those Familiar With MuScO-
yite Strategy Think Ger
mans and AuSttianS Found
Little TO Rejoice Over,

london, Jane % U0:gh b. MI
The Russians have lost Lemherg, They
occupied the Gancian capital early ia
September and held il continuously
until Tuesday when the combined
Austro-German force compelled them
70 retreat from the city which is only
sixty-odd miles due west from the
nearest point of the Russian frontier.
whether the fall Of Lcmberg means
that the Russian army operating south
'of 1t in southcNstcrn Galiciu rs effect
lively cut off 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 ease and that the Russian
ARMS received a blow from which they
cannot recover.
MAY Not BE Crushing Blow.
If the strake proves AS crushing as
the Teutons predict, It's effect. milf
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 ~
the French.
Up to 1880 o'clock tonight Petro-
grad had not conceded the fail oi
Lemberg Previous dispatches nom
the Russian capital, however, related
details of what purported ~ be the
systematic withdrawal Of the ltus-
SLAMS from the town and II these de-
tails should prove correct i II be-
lieVed In military circles here that
when the count is taken Of the Austro-
German booty il Will not be large Tor,
as was the case at Przemysl, the itus-
{ a l.. All gatsI - II
remove everything of military value.
Rejoicing IN Vienna.
Telegrams received from Vienna
concerning the capture OF Lembefb
and recounting the celebration Of the
populaue over the victory and that tue
Austrian correspondents with the Teu-
tonic armies pay tribute % the mag
niflcent rear guard action fought by
the Russians, who are declared TO
have retreated eastward In good or
der. leaving behind few prisoners and
even removing the Russian documents
from the city which, since the lfus-
slams occupied il, has been CALLED by
them Leow one Telegram from Vi
emma says Emperor William and Fran
ch Joseph purpose to meet soon m
the recaptured Galician capital for
"fitting ceremonies 10 mark the end
of Russias dominance OF GaliclH
Plenty of Ammunition.
The news of the fan OF Lcmberg
was known ON the continent yesterday.
but did not reach London until late
this afternoon when bulletins arrived
almost simultaneously by wireless
from Berlin and Vienna by way Of
Amsterdam. The British press had
been expecting such a development
and there was no more than pasJins
comment on IT, though Il drove home,
according to military observers, the
fact how ample must have been the
ammunition supply to
accomplish the feat Berlin and VI
emma are reported 10 be filled with JOY
over the victory Of their forces. Arch
duke Frederick of Austrla, commando
er-in-chief Of the Austrian forces, and
Gen. August Won Mackensen Of the
German army, both have been made
field marshals of the Prussian army
in recognition OF their service In tho
Galician campaign
on the river Dnicster, south Of
Lemberg, the battle IS sim raging