The Elbert County tribune., 1915-06-25
|LEmBERC FALLS,
LONDON REPORT
sLAvs SAY GALIciA CAPITAL
WILL BE GIVEN UP TO AVOID
SACRIFICE OF MEN.
SAY WARSKIP SANK U-29
AUsTRo-GERMANs BREAK DOWN
ALL BARRIERS AND CAP
TURE GRODEk
western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News service
London, June 23.-Many uncon-
firmed reports have reached London
that Lemberg has already fallen to the
Austro- Germans, and dispatches from
Petrograd indicate that the evacua-
tion of the Galician capital by the
Russians may be looked for at any
time. dispatch from the Russian
capital said: with the Russians OPP
posing their Austro-German antagon-
lists on a line six miles from Lemberg.
according to the most recent infor-
nation reaching Petrograd, 1t is un-
officially considered here that the
evacuation of the Galician capital
cannot now be avoided without sac
rifice of men out of proportion to the
strategic importance of the place.
1.-The evacuation of Lemberg as
base already has been accomplished
in good order The hospitals and the
government institutions have been re-
moved"
London, June 22.-T'hat the Russian
army, short of ammunition and pushed
back to its last line of defenses before
Lemberg, may give UP the city to the
advancing Austro-Germans without a
fight in ccder to save the grand dukes
army, is indicated by the following dis
patch received from Petrograd;
"The Austro-German attempt to
force way through the Russian lines
north and south of Grodek, in the
battle of Lemberg, apparently has not
yet been successful.
Regarding the approaching crisis
in the Galicia campaign the Bourse
Gazette says:
'' If, in view of the continued Ger
man reinforcements in Galicia, the
situation forces us to choose between
retaining Lemberg and preserving the
freedom of our operations, it is possi-
BILE we shall have to make a sentimen-
tai sacrifice, and abandon the Galician
capital"
The situation at Lemberg is evil
IDENTIFY precarious, as General Won
Mackensen seized the railway station
between Lemberg and Rawa Ruska,
which is the main line of travel north
ward.
Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian
commander-in chief, apparently has
begun to realize the threatening dan
gers. for he has ordered the with
drawal of all Russian forces from the
south bank of the Dniester.
Military opinion is that he cannot
eKtricate his huge armies without
heavy losses in men and material.
London. = The strongly fortified
Galician town of Grodek, where it was
predicted the Russians would make
stubborn stand, has fallen before the
Austro-German assault, according to
an Austrian official statement. The
river Tanew, believed to be another
stroug barrier has been crossed: Ko-
marno, only a few miles south of Gro
dek, has been taken, and the Austro-
German forces are within less than a
days march of Lemberg, the capital
of Galicia. seventeen miles away. This,
If the success of the Teutons contin-
ues, means the early fall of Lemberg,
The British admiralty has an
nounced officially that the German
submarine U-29, which was sunk the
latter part of March, fell victim to
a British warship, the name of which
is not disclosed.
The 2.000-ton British steamer Dulcie
was torpedoed and sunk off Suffolk.
The members of the crew, with one
xceDtion. were saved.
Allied airmen dropped bombs on the
German balloon sheds at Brussels,
causing slight damage.
The small Italian merchant steamer
Maria Grecia was sunk by an Austrian
torpedo boat in the Adriatic. The
crew was put ashore near Shawl
beach.