The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-19
SUCCESSES OF RUSSIANS DUE
 ID NEGLIGENCE
ARchDUkE FREDERICK NEGLECT FLU OF OUTY-IS NOW
 IN GREAT DESPAIR.

LONDON. June l8-AIl Austria is in despair over the failure Of the troops Of the empire to stem the tide of Russian successes in Galicia, according to word received here. The Russians are adv ancing. driving the Austrians b".ore them. the attempts of the latter to oppose the victory drunk hordes of Slay troops amounting to very little.
 According to the story received here, the brunt of the first attack of the Russians at Lutsk, at whicr point the Russian offensive move ment first commenced, fell oil two divisions of Austrians. Archdui;e Frederick Was celebrating his six tieth birthday and when the attath was reported to him and he. as commanding officer of the Austrian armies in Galicia, was asked for more troops, he laughed in deri- sion, refusing to believe that the Russians were capable of victory He therefore ordered the two divi- siOns of Austrians to stand to their colors and to defend Lutsk without help, permitting the bombardment of the place at close range by the Russians to continue. He would not even send a few batteries O. heavy guns to assist in the attempt to defend the town.
 When news was brought to him that the defenses of Lutsk were broken and that the Austrians were fleeing before the victorious Rus sians, Frederick was in despair. He immedia lately ordered all of the strat- egic reserves available into the breach made in the line of Austri- share the fate of their predeces- sors. Frederick is now not only overcome with remorse for his ne glect of duty, but because of that neglect, is the best hated man in the Austrian empire.
 RUSSIANS GAINING.
 PETROGRAD, June 18.--The Rus sian offensive on the southwestern front has had the effect of splitting the Austrian army operating along a battlefront extending from the Pripet marches to Bukowina, into three separate pieces, according to official dispatches received from the front, and a general retreat of al. of the divisions still continues. The object of the Russian commanders is to completely destroy or badly cripple one or all of the divisions circles that if their object can be gained Austria will sue for peace. The gap in the Austrian ranks near Lutsk has been furthel widened and the Russians are now advanc- ing at Sokul, on the Bug river.
 GERMANS FIGHTING.
 BERLIN, June 1S.-Announcement has been made by the war office to the effect that portion of the battle line in Galicia is now being defended by German forces under General von Linsingen The prin- cipal fighting by the Germans is being done in the Stokhod and Styr sections.
 AUSTRlANS WIN FIGHT.
 BERLIN, June 18.-The war office has received word that a large Rus sian cavalry force has been defeated by the Austrians in an engagement south of the Dniester river, in Ga hcia. The success has had the eff feet of stopping the Russian ad- vance in that section, at least teul- porarily. New battles are also ma terializing along the entire Volhyni- m front, where, 1t is believed, the reorganized Austrian armies under Archduke Frederick will attempt to make a stand.
 BOMBARDMENT CONTINUES.
 LONDON, June 1S.-There is but
 
 Verdun, according to dispatches re- ceived here from Paris. The bom- bardment of the Germans is inten- sified on Hill BOA, but there has becL no infantry battle of importance within the last "A hours. Yester- day attacks of the Germans were re pulsed at Thiamont farm and in the Caillette woods.
 WHEN CZERNOWiTZ FELL
 PETROGRAD, June 1S.-The loss es oe the Austrians before Czerno- witz was finally evacuated were enormous according to bulletins is- sued by the Russian war office. Tho city itself is practically in ruins