The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-24
Be EATEN RUSSIANS
PURSUED AND
HARRASSED
Russians on Dniester River are
StiI|iag Holding Out
LEMBERG TAKEN ON TUESDAY
Russians Saved Their Artillery But
Lose Part of It In Their
Retreat.

Berlin June 24-The capture of
Lemberg has not stopped the Austr-
ian and German armies. The retreat
ing Russians are being pursued and
at many points have thrown away
their arms and equipment in wild
rush for safety.
Thousands of prisoners and large
quantities OF munitions, cannon and
machine guns which were safely with
drawn from Lemberg are falling into
the hands of the Germanic allies
along the line of the Russian retreat.
The Russian army on the Dneister,
south Of Lemberg, is still Offering re-
sistance but is now practically sur
rounded and its line of retreat is
threatened by Gen Won Mackensen's
troops advancing along the railroad
east of Lemberg.
The next town in Galicia, east of
Lemberg, OF importance. is Farapol,
distant about so miles. AT Tarnapol
the railroad branches, one line run
ming TO Lernberg and the other ex-
tending southwest to the Dneister.
where the Russians are still holding
out. 1t will be necessary for the Ger
mans to occupy Tarnopal to clear
Galicia of the Russians.
Lemberg was occupied at o'clock
Tuesday afternoon after an all day
battle. The following official version
Of the operations around Lemberg
was issued by the Vienna War Office.
The northwest and west fronts of
Lemberg, on the line OF Zolkiew to
Mikolaiow, were strongly occupied by
Russian defensive forces. Tuesday at
o'clock in the forenoon the Vienna
Landwehr stormed the Rzezna works,
on the road from Janow to Lemberg,
from the northwest. At the same time
our troops advanced across the
heights east of the Mlynewka Rivulet
and stormed several bulwarks before
Lysa Cora Heights.
During the forenoon, while advanc
ing further in the direction of the
town, the remaining works, north
west and west of the fronts, were cap
tued after sanguinary fighting. In
this fighting the Russian front was
again broken. and the enemy, who
suffered heavy losses, again was fore
ed to retreat.
Our troops, pursuing the enemy
across the heights east and northeast
of the town, crossed south of the Lem
berg road to Mikolaiow.
Amid demonstrations of joy by the
population General Won Boebm-Erm-
olli entered the town Of Lemberg at
O'Clock in the afternoon with the
troops of the Second Army.
Near ZoIkiew and Rawa Ruska the
Russians are retreating. Isolated Rus
sian attacks on the Tanew River
have been repulsed
London, June 2i-Whether the fall
of Lemberg means that the Russian
army operating south of it in South
east Galicia is effectively cut off
from the army of the north, stretch
ing across Poland to the Baltic can
not yet be said. The newspapers of
both Vienna and Berlin say this is the
case and that the Russian arms have
received a blow from which they can
not recover.
II the stroke proves as cruising as
the Teutons predict its effect, mill
tary observers here predict, soon
should be felt in the transfer of vast
German forces to the west, where for
days they have been hard pressed by
the French.
Up to midnight last night Petro-
grad had not conceded the fall of
Lemberg. Previous dispatches from
the Russian capital, however, related
details of what purported to be the
systematic withdrawal Of the Rus
slams from the town, and if these de-
tails prove correct it is believed in
military circles here that when the
count is taken of the Austro-German
booty it will not be large, for, as was
tne case at GFZeHlySi, lHe huSSldHS
are said to have worked hard to move
everything of military value.
kilograms received from Vienna
concerning the capture of Lemberg
and recounting the celebration of the
populace in Vienna over the victory
add that the Austrian correspondents
with the Teutonic armies pay tribute
to the magnificent rear guard action
fought by the Russians, who are de-
clared to have retreated in good or