The Washington herald., 1916-07-17
By JOHN L. BALDERSTON.
(Copyright, 1850

south OF that river
Twenty Thousand Men In Division.
Normally there are 5000 men in
division, about 1900 effective bayonets,
but many of the divisions in the east are
under strength. and an authority in
formed me that on June !. a rough esti-
mate gave the Germans 10000, and the
Austrians 10000 troops, in the east. a
total OF l.55o.0oo men. The Russians have
now reduced that number to at least l.
ia, 900, not counting re-enforcements
rushed by the Austro-Germans from
other fronts.
Marshal Hindenburs commands fve
armies, stretching from the Gulf Of Riga
to the Oginski Canal in the Pripet
marshes. His headquarters are at wilma,
and his opponent, who commands the
northern group Of Russian armies. is Gen.
Guropatkin, of japanese war fame.
The Mitau army, the most northerly Of
Hindenburgs group. extends from the
coast to Jacobstsdt. on the Dvina, half
way between Riga and Dvinsk or Dun
aberg 1t is composed largely Of poor
troops, an assorted lot of Landstrum
brigades and even Isolated battalions,
stirrened by two brigades of the Fourth
Cavalry division, the First Landwehr di-
vision. Sixth Reserve division. and
seventy-sixth reserve division. Its head
quarters are at Shawl.
Crack Eighth Army.
To the south, the crack Eighth army
stretches to some distance below Lake
Drisviaty. south Of Dvinsk Won Scholtz,
with headquarters at Uciany. is its lead
er. and 1t includes the One Hundred and
First, Forty-hrst. One Hundred and
Ninth, Second, Thirty-seventh, Seventy
seventh. Eighty-seventh and Eighty
eighth active divisions OF the regular
army, besides three cavalry divisions and
the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth
Reserve divisions.
The Tenth army is the next best on
the eastern front. and extends the line
nearly to Smorgon. The headquarters Of
its commander, Won Eichhorn, adjoins
those of Hindenburg in Wilma 1t con-
slsts Of the Bavarian cavalry division.
the Tenth and Seventeenth Landwher di-
visions, the Ninth Landwehr brigade,
Third, Seventy-ffth and Eightieth Re-
serve Divisions, and of the active army
the One Hundred and Seventh. Forty
second, One Hundred and Fifteenth and
Thirty-first divisions.
Won Fabeck's Twelfth army comes
next, and reaches to the River Niemen
at Deliatitchi. Its headquarters are
Ida. It is made up of the Eighty-third,
Eighty-hfth, Eighty-sixth and Eighty
ninth regular divisions the Seventy-ninth
Reserve division. and the Eleventh, Four
teenth and Sixteenth Landwehr divisions.
Ninth in south.
The most southerly of Hindenburgs s
armies is the Ninth. which has on its
right flank the Pripet marshes, and Is
commanded by Won Woyrsch, the captor
Of Ivongorod last summer who is sta
toned at Alonim. Its center was held
by the Twelfth Austrian Corps of two
| divisions, the only Austrian troops in the
| German line, but they have doubtless
| man divisions in this army are the
Eighty-fourth and 11sth. There are also
| the Fifth, Forty-seventh and Forty
ninth reserve divisions, and the Third.
Fourth and Eighteenth Landwehr di-
visions.
Prince Leopold of Bavaria, with head
quarters at kobrin, is still dignifed with
the title Of commander of a group of
armies, but all his armies OF last sum-
| mer have been moved elsewhere excepting
one weak organization consisting of the
Fifth and Guard cavalry divisions which
hold the marsh land where no serious
| move can be made by either side. The
Eighty-second Reserve division rests its
right flank on the Pripet River, where the
Austrian line commences. Gen. Everts is
the Russian army group commander op-
poslle Prince Leopold ana the southern
armies of Hindenburg.
Before the present great Russian often
sive, there were forty Austrian divisions
In line south of the Pripet to Roumania,
two army groups Of two armies each
under Won Linsingen and Won Bothmer
with separate army In the Bukovtna
under Won Pfanzer.
Brusilof in Command.
Brusilof commands all the Russian
southern armies. Linsingen is report
ed to have been succeeded by Mack
ensen. hurried back from the east
while Pflanzer since his defeat has
disappeared. 1t should be useless to
give the Austrian formation of last
month. for at conservative estimate
the equivalent of nineteen divisions
have been destroyed and the other
units have shifted about. Russia has
made up to date 100000 prisoners, and
while these include captured, wounded
the most conservative experts esti-
mate that at least 165, 900 other troops
must have been killed or permanently
put out of action.
The Prussian Guard division is re-
ported to have appeared at Koyel,
where the Germans are trying to save
the vital railway junction which ioins
their communications with those of the
Austrians. The Fifth German corn,
from Arras on the British front, and
even certain units from the yerdun
region, are also said to be in the Lutsk
salient, but information of this kind
gained during furious fighting ia ON
different plane from the LIST os
formations given above, the result of
observations lasting all winter and
spring during which there was little
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