Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-29
GIGANTIC ARMIES
BATTLE WITHOUT
REST IN GAL|C|A
Situation Is One of Perma-
nent Crisis at One Point
or Another.
MAIN FRONT FOLLOWS
COURSE OF RIVER SAN
Objective of Germans Seems to
Be Road Connecting Pre-
mysl and Lemberg.
MEET WITH LITTLE SUCCESS
Opinion in Petrograd Is That Rus.
sian Position Now Is
Impenetrable.
MEET WITH LITTLE SUCCESS
Opinion In PetrOgrad Is That Rus
sian Position Now Is
Impenetrable.

| Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch1
| PETROGRAD, May 2s-The situation
in Galicia is one of permanent crisis
at one point or another OF the line
The fighting continues practically with
out cessation, day and night.
The main front still follows the
! course OF the River San from it's con-
| huence with the vistula as far as
Przemysl. and then, roughly. takes the
direction of Sambor, Drohobycz. Stry
and Dolina, The Russians hold the
ground on the left bank of the San at
| Przemysl and to the north of the town.
Apparently the tactics of the Ger
mans are to concentrate rapidly, first,
| on one and then on another sector of
the front. and by their usual reck-
less expenditure of blood and ammuni-
ton, try to effect a breach in the Rus
sian position. Their immediate objec-
tive seems to he the highroad and rail-
way connecting Przemysl with Lem
berg, and the mass OF their troops is
assembled on the San, south of Jaros-
lau, with the idea of reaching these bv
| frontal attack.
For days now their efforts have met
with no material success, and their cas-
one OF their assaults in the district
of Guesakof. southeast of Przemysl.
the Russians counted more than 1000
OF the enemy's dead.
RUSSIAN POSITION
RELIEVED IMPENETRABLE
The army opinion here now is that
the Russian position in Galicia Is as
tmpenetrable as that they constructed
west of Warsaw.
In the angle formed by the vistula
bending north of Sandomir. the fighting
appears to be going on continuously
with varying results. but there seems
TO be no doubt that tho balance here
Is in favor OF the Russians This is
indicated by the fact that the enemy
has considerably re-enforced the army
| he originally allotted to this region
to cover the left flank of his main
movement from Cracow.
Enemy forces operating in the Baltic
| provinces also have been considerably
! augmented. and now are said to amount
to seven cavalry and six infantry di-
visions. The German commander is
the well-known military critic vosel
Won Falkenhausen.
| The Germans are In their greatest
strength Mt Libau and around Shawl
""u hoSS'ehE. Elsewhere in this region
thcy nave only n thin line OF troops
The Russians are said TO be fully pre-
/ pared to meet the asphyxiatinG gases
/ by means OF which the Germans at
tempted to advance near Zedwabno 1t
is no secret that. Immediately the
enemy had resorted to this expedient
in the west very prompt measures were
taken TO counteract it on this side
| SHARP ADVANCES ny ALLIES
on BOTH WINGS IN WEST
| Especial Cable TO The Times Dispatch
| LONDON. May oS.--Sharp advances
were made by the allies on both wings
of tho western front to-day. The Brit
| ish drove forward by an mpetuous
advance in the direction of La Bassee
on the left. and in Alsace the French
! Alpine troops. lighting among the
Schnepfcnreith peaks, progressed sew
| eral hundred yards.
/ The heaviest lighting of the day.
! however. won nothing for either side
1t occurred near Aneres, north OF
Arras. where the Germans, apparently
apprchcnsive OF the constantly increas-
| ing strength of the French offensive,
took the initiative last night and, af-
ter extensive artillery preparation OF
violent character. began a series Of
assaults that shook the French front,
| but failed to pierce it,
Shock after shock of terrific impact
was withstood by the French The
commander of the republics troops re-
| ported tonight that after seven at
tacks. two delivered during the night
and five to-day, the whole of the
| French positions were maintained in
tact.
The Germans were met with terrific
artillery and infantry fire. which cut
the attackers ranks before the assault
reached it's height. and in each case
doomed the onslaught to failure.
particularly violent artillery bat
tic. lasting all day. occurred between
Angrcs and Arras.
The German report issued at Berlin
during the day chronicles lighting to
the northeast and southeast OF the
l-orette hills. where the French have
been pounding at the German lines
with considerable energy. Since May
., Berlin asserts, the Germans have
captured on this sector OF the front
fourteen officers and l,4S0 French
soldiers.
MOST VIOLENT STREET
FIGHTING OF WAR OCCURS
Both reports refer to lighting at Alb.
lain st. Nazaire. where the most vio-
lent street lighting of the war in this
section has been proceeding for the
past week The French finally have
won their way through the town. and
to-day the early communique stated
that final effort had made them mas.
ter of the cemetery. In which they
gained foothold yesterday. Berlin