Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-06-18
.A.USTRO-GERMANS
CROSS DN|ESTER
Germans Said to Have
Flanked Cars Positions
in Galicia
BATTLE STILL RACES
Petrograd Claims Linsingen's Adj
vance on Stryj Has Been Hurled
Back With Heavy Losses.

Petrograd, June 19-Austro-G Ger.
man losses on a forty-mile sector o;
tailed between 10000 and 10000 in
the past month, said a political review
of the fighting issued by the war Of
flee today.
London, June 18-Austro- German
troops have crossed the Dneister
fifteen miles northeast of Stanislau
The Russian war office made this
official admission today, but announ.
ced that Russian forces east of Stryj
threw back the enemy, capturing 2O2
officers and S,544 men.
The war office is silent about the
progress of the new Austro-G German
drive on Lemberg from the west. The
official statement merely said tina:
the fighting in West Galicia continues
There is fighting along the entire
700 mile Of the eastern battle Tine.
The Austro-G German forces are eSti-
mated at 3,550,000. There are re.
ports Of spirited action at Augusta.
wo, Kalvaria, Grodno, around Os-
sowiec, along the Omulew and Narew
line, north of Przasnysz, south of the
Vistula, on the Bzura river and IN
Galicia.
Here the heaviest fighting of all
is to be found in the general advance
from three directions toward Lem.
berg.
Berlin, June 1S--A decisive bat
tie from which important results are
expected is now in progress all alone
the Russian front. German forces
along the Rawka River in Central
Russian Poland, west of Warsaw have
now taken the offensive. The German
battle line, in Poland, Galicia and
Bukowina is 100 kilometres (6S2
miles) long. German and Austrian
forces are attacking the enemy in &
desisive battle, and big results ar,
expected.
The Russians have abandoned thel.
positions to the north of Sieniawa, or
the San River in Galicia, and have re
treated toward Tarnogrod, in Russian
Poland, according to official statemen
by the German army headquarters
staff. =
Petrograd, June 1S-Occupation b,
the Germans of additional villages il
the Shawl district and further soutf
in the region east of Mariampol i
admitted by the Russians. It's claim
ed, however, that the invaders suf
fered severely in futile attacks be
yond the iemen and that ground los
north of Przasnysz has been regained
The great battle along the San II
West Galicia is reported to be con-
tinuing fercely with fresh Austro
German forces constantly entering
the combat. The statement follows
German attacks for the past three
days around the village of Uitzkoff
near the Windau River, have been un
successful, and the fighting Tuesda!
ended in our favor. In the region o
Popelairy our troops crossed ths
Venta. In pursuing the enemy ou
cavalry sabred hundreds of German:
and made some dozen of prisoners
The fighting near Shawl continue
with various fortunes. Some village
fell into the enemy's hands. Their
have been artillery duels on tn
Dubysa.
"On the western front beyond tn
mid-Niemen the enemy has sustaine
! heavy losses in the past two days i
fruitless offensive attempts.
"In counter-attacks in the regio
east of Mariampol some villages wer
(! occupied by the enemy, and Tuesda
night the enemy, began bombart
ment of Ossowetz, but about 8 o'clc
o'clock in the morning the fortres
got the upper hand.
"Along the Narew-Omulew Valle
ropt there have been unimportan
encounters.