The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-06-11
PRZEMYSL WILL BE
HARD TO RECAPTURE
Germans Will Hurry Big Guns to
Austrian Fortress.

| hOHuOuY JUNE O.--WuIkS IL is COs
early to give an opinion of the i'm
portance of the recapture of Przem
ysl ON the ultimate result of tn,
war, yet 1t is safe to assume tha
this event must exercise very i'm
Iportant influence on the military
|situation in Western Galicia.
The future defense of the place
is likely to be organized with fal
better method and care by the Ger.
man general staff than it's original
defense by the Austrians and its
prudent to assume it will be en-
dowed with artillery at least as pow
erful as any that may be brought
against it.
Great exertions will be made
doubtless to supply the new garri-
son with stores of food and NUM-
tions and with all the ny dern aux
iliaries of siege warfare such as air
craft, motor cars and machine guns.
1t may also be predicted that the
garrison will be homogeneous and
suitable and that the commandant
of the place will be carefully chosen.
An interval must elapse before
these preparations can be made eff
fectiye. If the Russians had left
just a little more leisure, there is no
reason to doubt that they would
have made Przemysl as hard to re-
capture as Warsaw and Ivangorod
proved to the German offensive.
Circumstances, therefore, point to
a fierce struggle in the open field
whose focus will be in the triangle
of Lemberg, Garoslav and Przemysl,
but which will extend far to the
tanks as we'll. The struggle will be
for a tactical victory, which will
decide the superiority of one or the |
other combatant in those regions.
If this victory is gained by the
Russians within the next two or
three weeks they may hope to re-
cover the lost fortress in a fresh
forward rush before the Germanic
forces have made it secure, Just as
The Germans recovered it before the
Russians secured their prize by
nethodical preparations against the
attack which took them
)y surprie.
FRESH CAMPAIGN NECESSARY.
Przemysl bars the railroads lead
ng from Jaroslau and Lemberg
Icross the Carpathians by the Lup-
low Pass. 1t also guards the prin-
ipal point of passage across the ;
1ver San and the valley lying close {
o the Carpathian foothills.
1t must be reduced before any {
erious attempt is made to invade
hungary thru the mountain passes ,
n the vicinity and owing to it's .
avlng been used so long as an i'm :
ortant place d'armes, il has now -,
ot within it's lines masses of mill
ary material which cannot be
loved except after long delay and :
,hich belong to it's captors for the I
me being. q
II the Germans succeed in making e
ood their hold upon Przemysl L
lther the Russians must begin q
ampaign for the invasion of Hun I
ary afresh or must make the at +
lck from another point of de- a
arturo. :,
If, on the other hand, the Rus T
ans retake the place within the :.
ext three or four weeks, the efforts
lpended by the Germanic troops in
S recapture will have weakened
lem materially for the ensuing "
ruggle. ri
In no case does it seem probable fl
at the Germanic armies can pur- il
10 their success much further, be- NJ
use OF the pressure of the allied r
rces elsewhere in France, the A,
lstrian Tyrol and Eastern Galicia o.
ust soon engage the earnest at :.
ntion of the German general staff
ID imperatively demand a fresh 10
stribution of the Germanic army ~
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