Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-06-17

GERMANS TO TAKE
LEMBERG IN 2 WEEKS
Zeppelin Raid on English
Coasts Causes England
to Talk Airships.

I DNDuN, June l6.-GO:56 p. mJ
Il For the first time in weeks there
has been heavy fighting over com
.paratIyely extensive line on the Brit
ish front in Belgium and France. The
Berlin communication makes note OF
.it and describes Ii as an Anglo
French government syuchronizing
with the Russian rcycrscs in Galacia.
TO win a mile of rront and then to
lose it before terrific German counter
attacks was the experience Of the
British on Tuesday near Festubcnt.
In statement frank If brief, Field
Marshal French records this incident
but does not state the losses which
must have been heavy on both sides
The Germans are as frank i'm con-
Ccding the loss of ground near Ypres.
but they make no mention Of having
been forced, even temporarily to
yield mile Of their Fcstubcnt strong.
hold.
In the cast the Austro- German ad-
vance continues 10 swing forward
with the exception OF the section be-
! tween the Dniester marshes and
Iurawna, where the Russians holding
the brldgehcads are making some
hcadway.
At Lcmbcrg I'm Two Weeks.
General Won Mackensen. according
to dispatches has given himself a
fortnight in which to capture Lem
berg and IL would seem that at the
rate his and coordinate forces are
going forward this time limit VIII be-
ample If thA Russians are unable to
initiate Sutler resistance thau they
are showing now.
The latest Zeppelin raid on England
has created hardly a ripple Of excite
ment Aircraft protection was one of
the subjects discussed today in the
house Of commons, William Joynson
Hicks urging a marked increase In
this branch. He said that London
might soon expect a serious raid and
added that at one time more than
llvc ICppclins Of the latest type were
over the English coast
Tho uuderseCrctary for war, III. J.
Tcnuaut. besides giving assurances
that bigger acrDpianes were under
construction, said that since the be-
ginning Of the war the number OF
machines had been Increased tenfold
ard the number OF men engaged in
this branch nyefold.
British on Offensive.
At two points on their line-nOrth
OF HoOge, which lies east Of Ypres In
Belgium and at Festubcrt In France
the British troops have suddenly re.
sumcd an active offensive. line OF
German trenches at Festubort was oc-
cupied but soon lost through the viO-
lenCc Of the German COuutcrattaCk
But in the engagement in Belgium the
British were successful i'm capturing
more than half a mile Of trenches, in.
cluding the whole Of the first line and
parts Of the second line and these they
are holding.
The German war office admits the
capture Of positions by the British
near Ipres but asserts that in The
fighting around Fostubcrt the British
sustained heavy losses I'm men and left
several machine guns ana bono.
throwers behind after their assaults
I'm which hand-to-hlud lighting oc.
CURED, were repclled.
The French are gaining ground in
the region of Arras and . I'm the Vos.
ges on both banks Of thtFecht river
where several hundred prisoners. to.
sether with large quantity of rifles
and cartridges We're taken.
Rheims has again been heavily
bombarded and the French report that
about dozen shells fell on the IA
nous cathedral. German aerOplanes
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