Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-07-07
lvanoff Gives Correspondents
to Understand He Reckons
Achievements By Losses
of the Enemy.
TROOPS STILL RETREATING
Moral Effect of Territorial Loss
Not Considered-Forces In
tact-Future Offensive
Move minated.

XNOve ID
London. July 3.-Despite numerous
ueIeats and heavy losses. and notwith-
standing the loss Of hard won territory
the Russian army is not d~ownhearted.
according to reports from correspon-
aents with the Grand Duke Nicholas
troops. Russian officers and strategists
lay emphasis on the fact that the Rus
Sian army is still intact. that the moral
erect OF territorial losses is of no COM
sequence IN considering the larger as
pect or the campaign, and that they
nave naoe their enemies pay dearly
for every foot of ground reconquered.
sun the retreat continues. Stand and
1lght. then rum! Stand n fight, then
run! That is the Russian policy in
TINS campaign. At each stand they en-
deavor to inflict the heaviest possible
losses on their pursuers before the
pursuing army arrives in sufficient
numbers to completely crush the de-
tenders by sheer weight. The losses on
both sides are untold.
Russians Not D~ownhearted.
Stanley Washburn, correspondent of
the London Times. wires from, the
eastern front:
arriving here discovers Instant
~ that these armies, though they re-
tlred from territory and towns con-
quefed last autumn. are neither beaten
nor even doWnhearted. One experiences
gfowlHg hOpefulness as one approaches
the front, which becomes a conviction
that there is no cause for dependency.
sWhen n meets n talks with
General 1%vanoff, the Russian COM
Inander a quiet. serene soldier, with a
we'll balanced mind, his grasn of the
situation and confidence in the future
tend TO dissipate pessimism.
Ine point Of view of the situation
one finds here is that the Germans.
Dy selecting a place of attack on the
1s na1 AN front. which mas a length of
l,UOO miles. were enabled by the expen-
alture OF men and ammunition which
IS impossible for Russia to equal. nv
losses which are estimated at $50, 900
among the Germans, and probably a
ike number Of Austrians, and by con-
slant desperate attacks, to force the
russians back over n devastated coun-
try. and finally to evacuate Le,nherr
Which was done in a quiet and ORDERLY
manner
Still Fiaht s~tubborniy.
After a struggle of six weeks thew
still encounter the same stubborn army
which is willing and g to keep
fighting. The only tangible achieve
rcent which appears to have been
gained by Germany is the moral effect
OF handlng back Lemberg to the Aus
TRANS. This creates among the seri-
ous-minded little enthusiasm, as it is
clear when the Germans 70 the rms
slams will promptly retake it.
To understand Russia's campaign
in Galicia. n must realize the Rus
sian point of view, which is that they
a retreat and advance indefinitely.
caring little for moral effects and loss
OF towns SO Q as they are weakening
the enemy. There is an increasing
the war from getting to a trench dead
lock on the western and Warsaw
fronts"
Russian Losses Heavy.
The latest estimates from Berlin
place the number OF Russian soldiers
made prisoner in une at 40 officers
and 140.660 men, while the booty cap
tured amounted to 80 cannon and 26s
machine guns. This was in the Galician
field, alone. In other sections OF the
eastern front the Germans claim to
have captured 120 officers and 25.e95
men. sever cannon. 50 machine guns.
an a~eroplane, six mine throwers and
other material of war. No estimate OF
the number Of Russians killed and
wounded is given.
Tsutons swsspins On.
In the fighting in the east there is no
indication even in the Russian official
statements that there IL any halt in
the sweep of the Teutonic armies
northward and eastward from Lem
berg. Further south. however. tho
II NtOORo Va SlC 1IdllU LUKE NIVnOkaS
have made what looks like a deter
mined stand along the line of the Gnila
Lipa rive
Austro- German accounts tell OF VIC
tories yer in that section OF thu
Curving eastern front, but the Russians.
deny the reverses there We're serious,
declaring desperate attacks were re-
pulsed with great losses to the Teu-
tonic forces.
German observers believe the Rus
SLAMS are prepared to abandon Galicia
n attribute the desperate fighting
north OF Halicx to a desire to give time
for the preparation of strong defensive
positions beyond the border. Reporta
from neutral sources declare that the
Russians have recently received new
supplies Of high explosives which have
enabled them in their stand ana in
their retreat to swell normoue the
casualty list OF their enemies.
GERMAN FRONTIER CLOSED;
MAY Dc MOVING ARMIES
Geneva. Switzerland (via parisl.
July 3.-The Swiss people are wonder
ing 10 happening on the other side
Of the Rhine. No German trains are
arriving at Constance, and the SWiss
railway ~ q consequence has been
Obliged to suspend international ser-