Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-27
TITANIC TRUGGLES
 STAGED BY ARMIES
 IN DREARY GALICIA
This Austrian CroWnland Is DenSeIy Populated Although the Poorest of All the Emper- OTIS Provinces.

OTIS Pr0VlnCeS.
 WASHINGTON. June %. - For months war dispatches from Galicia-- where vast armies have swayed back and forth, locked in one of the out standing. titanic struggles Of history to decide the fate of empires and Of two mighty races-have gripped the popular attention more than the news from any other battle theatre On Galicias fields during the past feN months have been done such feats at arms as the modern world could not have dreamed Of; the strength of great Russia swept over this Austrian crownland. driving its powerful armies over the plain of the north. over the central hills, up the southern slopes of the ragged Carpathians, on to their lofty, icy crests, beyond these crests, and hovered over the fertile prairie land of Hungary
 Here the wave spent it's irrisistible force, and upon the dreary mountain rocks, above the clouds. amid the icy snow and chill cold of early spring, the flower of Russian and Austro-Ger- man strength began rolling backward toward the north. still locked in con- tinuous. grinding battle. until now the foothills have been left behind and the terrific contest is surging in the direction of Lemberg and the northern plain. The nature of this war theatre |, that has beheld among earth's stern est, most bitter scenes is intimately . described by William Joseph Showal- ter in a statement prepared for the , National Geographic Society This writer says:
 Austrian Poland is practically em- . braced by the crownland of Galicia This crownland is almost exactly the size of the State of South Carolina , but it has a population six times as b great. If continental United States exclusive of Alaska, were as densely , populated as Gahcia, we would boast f of a population four times as great as , that of Russia. And yet Galicia is D the poorest of all the provinces of , Austria. It lies outside the ramparts z. of the Carpathians. which rob it of f the warm winds that otherwise would Q come to it from the south, and also Q turn back upon it the cold winds of , the north. Thus these mountains give 5 Galicia long, cold winters; short, wei p springs; hot blistering summers and fl dreary. chilly autumns
 s 'The glory of Poland's past and tho |, hope of her future are Crocow ana 5. Lembers, for it was the former that fl was her capital in the yesterday o .. history and the latter that is her capi tai today and which would be her cap fl ital Ieorrow were Polish dreams tC fl come true. In Cracow. the great citl n of Poland's past, the royal palace stil v stands; but it is used as a barracks % and not as the home of a king Int s cathedral is now the Valhalla of it f. departed greatness; for there sleel
 the kings and the heroes from tn, n Jagellons to KOsciuszko Not far awal Q is the Kosciuszkoberg, one of the mos D. remarkable memorials ever reared b,
 
 ,t earth brought by loyal Poles from ey a- cry battlefield in the world consecrat - ed with Polish blood
 "The country around Crocow is fla
 and is devoted almost wholly to smal
 farming and trucking The peasant
 dress in white jackets and blue breec
 es, and wear jack-boots their wome folk, with large bright shawls and pi,
 turesQue head-dress, brighten and giv
 spirit to the countryside.
 From Cracow to Lemberg the tra'
 eler encounters good land; 1t is fairl
 level and entirely innocent of fencei
 boundary stones marking party line'
 and tethers or herdsmen keeping liv,
 stock where it belongs. The sam
 methods of agriculture that We use in the United States before the day
 of the selfbinder and the grain dri
 are still in force in that region.
 "lt is in Lemberg that the only Pc
 ish-dominated legislative assembly i
 existence holds its sessions. for Len
 berg is the capital of Galicia, and th
 Poles, both because of their shrew
 political ability and their numerlci l weight control the Galician legisl 'k ture in the face of their rivals, th IT, Ruthenians of East Galicia. The cit
 of Lemberg Is largely modern-a cor as pact nucleus surrounded by scatterir a, suburbs
 ., While Galicia is almost wholly a
 agricultural region, and while a larl i percentage of that agriculture is ca al ried on in the old-time way, there al " some few manufacturing neigbbc 'N hoods and industrial districts. Di
 tilleries occupy first place among tl