The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-20
BuIgars Also Reported To Have
Despatched Two Divisions OF
Her Fighting Men To Help
Hold the SIavS In Bukowina
TWO FULL TEUTONIC ARMY
CORPS ON WAY TO GALlCIA
SIavS Everywhere Reported To
Be Continuing Their Advance
West Despite All Foes Can
Do; Lemberg Now Threatened
ASSOCIATED Pres. by Federal Wireless,


ONION, June Is The TCutons on
the western fronts and their allies,
the Bulgnrs, in the Balkans, ARE
beginning to feel the effect Of the con,
tinued success o. the fierce Russinu
drive in GaIicia and the BukOwina. ne.
eOrding to dispatches received here last
night from Russian sources.
Berlin, il is said, iD reply to appeals
from Austria, has despatched two army
corps, approximately ninety Thousand
men, to the assistance Of the hard.
pressed Austrians in Gi,licia. Bulgaria
has also sent aid to the hustrians, aud
two divisions of her army have gone
TO the Bukowina lines to assist in
| checking the onward rush Of the Rus.
slams. 'f r
! But the great Russian offensive eon,
| tinues. 80 far there have been no in.
| LEGATIONS of the slightest let,up in the
steady progress made by the huge mass.
~ OF the Cars army toward its goals
IN the East. In VOlhynia and the Buk.
| owina, as well as in Galeia, the steam
roller moves without pause and with.
out hitch. $50 81. q. X.
Austrians Are PoWerleas ~ @'sf
The Austrians apparently are utterly
Dowerless to halt Il and are reported
from Russian aud neutral sources. to be
alling back before the attacks Of their
Slav fOemen, slowly and stubbornly
lighting for every inch Of ground, and
in vain.
1t is true that the Russian progress
is not no swift as when the great drive
began, but il Is steadier,} governing n
wider stretch of the trout between the
Pripet Marshes and the Rumhnian from
tier. T. sh-&l Ag,a,sg p.
From the VolhynianF fortresses the
| Slavs are now reported to be, striking
} viciOusly and successfully to the. SOUTH
west and to the west; breaking down all
opposition as they advance. and bring.
ing their huge battering guns with
: them as they move forward. Apparent
lly everything was carefully thought
out before the. offensive hogan, and
General Brussiloff evidently is follow.
ing a carefully laid plan Of compaign.
80 far there has been no yfalter or flaw.
slavs Active On styr Front
. Yesterday it was announced in Pc.
: trograd that the Russians have now be-
gun to batter at the Austrian lines
along the Styr river and the Stokhod
river, some thirty miles from Koyel an
= important junction point and vitality es
sential to the close connection between
. the northern and the southern Teutonie
= armies operating against the MuseO.
vites. KOvel once in the hands of the
Russians the two armies will be divid.
{ ed and forced to fall back over wide
r area. -
North of CzernowitZ the Russians are
continuing their hammering of the
Austrian lines for important gains.
s They have driven back the Austrians
, on the border of Galieia and Russian
u Poland, have reoccupied the city of
p RadZilowO, and are but sixty miles from
the great city of Lemberg, which they
aptured early in the war only to aban-
don it when the great Teutonic drive
forced them backward u year and more
ago.
German Version Of Situation
The Berlin reports of the fighting in
\ the East, announced that there has been
\ desperate fighting along the Stokhod
y and the Styr rivers, where Field Mar.
shall Won Linsingen is said to be hold
ing back the SlaVs. North of Pre-.
lcwka, General Won Bothmer is said Ia
U be struggling to hold the Slav advance
and with success. South of the Dnei
St"r continued the Berlin accounts OF
he situation in the East. the Austrian
troops have defeated n large body OF
K Russian cavalry, and checked the ad
=. vance there.
r Berlin adds that 'fresh battles have
r started along the entire Volhynia
front. y
lr There has been general fighting upor
= he western front, although Verdun ut
II. longer holds the center, Of the stage
:, the struggle th"re having dwirdled t.
Pr intense artillery firing at1Le Mort HON
ne. and hand grenade attacks by the
II. Continued on Page y
ID Germans upon the French holding tn,
II lines in the nrighbOrhood Of Avocourt
y Eas. of Thanh, in the Vosges, tn,
N French reported that thcv lad pene
~ trnted the first and serond hncs If tn,
# Germans, and captured many prisoners
l.. Rome announced that her or"usiV,
II against the Austrians in the Isonz0 riV
rr sectors has been successful and ais
that her troops have taken importau
POSITIONS north of Asiago and at tn,
head Of the Frenzela valley.