The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-25
FRESH DRIVE ON
WARSAW IS PLAN
OF GERMAN STAFF
All Galicia Except One City Is
Cleared Of Russian
Invaders.
CARS ARMY TO MAKE
STAND AT FRONTIER
Speci1i cable Dssp1fcb 10 TuE erN

Special cable Despatch 10 THE SrN.
LONDON. June Gutenberg having
been taken and the Russians driven out
OF Galicia except for one city. Halicz. n
new drive on Warsaw Is expected by
military observers here.
There are hints of this in n despatch
received by a news agency from Amster-
dam this afternoon which
that tho Germans have alreqdy begun to
shift their surplus army corps from Lem
berg north to the Bzura River region
west OF Silesia. the scene OF their mill
tary disaster OF three months ago.
on his line tho Germans will have
~confronting them not only the ring ~
strong forts around Warsaw but the
river barriers like the Nistul1. Russia
has enough men in this section 10 per-
nit the soldiers who nave gone through
the hard Galician campaign TO rest.
They have the guns and they have the
military bases from which to put up a
hard fight.
The, details OF :Ae taking OF Lemberk
rave not vet been received from n
Juarter, but enough has been learned TO
Justify the assertion that tho Russian
rear guard made a magnificent fight 10
cover the withdrawal Of tn" main body
aud the heavy guns. beginning last
Sunday the armies under Field Marshal
Won Mackensen and the Archduke Fred
crick of Austria had penetrated the
northern section of the Russian line
around the Tanew. This ISOLATED IN"
extreme Russian right nank Then the
main, l,nIt,e ~ tho f.prlnan9 and MIS-
TRANS under Won M~ackensen and Boehm-
Ermo,li. striking due east through Gro
dek and the lakes. broke the Russian
centre. which rested upon Lembcrg
This neCessitated the retirement o'
the Russian right =: Rawa Ruska and
in t 4. intervening space TO Lembefg. re-
sultin g In the occupation OF Iolkitw. ~
the same time In the further northwet
the army which had been iigating In the
angle Of tn" San and the Nistula was
compelled TO retire to the north. n stu
I another force around kielcs, In Russian
| Poland, a little more than 100 miles
from Warsaw, gave way.
The Russian rear guard Al Lenders
retired fighting every step OF the way
and did not give up until Boehm-Er'
molll's forces actually had reached =
:, ction of the city. While won Macken
sens forces We're only "A few miles away
Dispatches from Vienna and Berii'
say the Teuton armies were received
with great rejoicinss by the population
They found that the city had been onll
! slightly damaged. The Russians had
! DESTROYED all the benzine and gasolen'
storage tanks. but had not. touched the
public buildings.
The exact disposition OF the Russian
trops In northern and eastern Gaiicia
IL not known tonight. II Is though
, that the Grand Duke Nicholas Will en-
4! deavor TO establish a. position on thu
Bug River in B~essarabia, but II is no
known here whether his forces are
closely pursued or whether TIE VIC
torious Teutons are making ready u
shift, their forces to another point.
II Is safe to say. however. that a
! soon AZ any Indications of IA Withdrawal
| Of heavy artillery to another quarter ar
| observed the Russians will turn II rs
sumo the offensive.