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LEADING TO HUNGARY

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used. and their raking fire is turned on the
fleeing Teutons before they are able TO gain
the shelter Of their secondary lines.
The sweeping fire OF the Russian artillery
has forced the Austro-German armies back
from the south side of the Lipa at many
points. II is only a question of hours be-
fore the Russians cross the stream and be-
gin the last march of the journey toward
Lemberg. On this army men here are
agreed
Double track runways and military roads
leading directly into the threatened sector
are enabling the Russians to concentrate
masses of troops against Won Binsingens s
army and 20 replenish their supplies with
great rapldity. Plans have evidently been
made for a great Russian offensive against
Lemberg from this direction, where recent
judicious "nibblng" disclosed vital weak
nesses in the Teuton lines.
The left wing of the Austrian army near
Sviniusky, which has previously been shown
strong enough to resist all Russian attempts
to cross the Galician frontier and envelop
the town of Brody is now being made the
target of the Russians heavy guns. once
a breach is forced here the Russians will
have new route opened up to them in the
north for an advance on the 'Galcan
capital
Already the threat to Iemberg has be-
como so great that. according to we'll authen-
ticated reports from Rome, towns and viii
lagos along the paths leading to the strong
hold from the northern frontier are being
hastily evacuated and the people thrown
into pnnic.
The same newly won Russian lines along
the Lipa are constituting n similar menace
to Vladimir-Volynski and Kovel and to the
right flank of the Teuton forces defending
the western bank of the Stokhod The
Boerse Gazette reports that the Austrians
and Germans are using every possb means
Of strengthening the defenses of Vladimir
Volynskl and Kovel
Villages are being razed to permit of
free artillery action against any advancing
Russian armies, and half-starved peasants
are being driven into the outlying districts
to dig trenches and build shelters. Every
able-bodied German soldier that can be
spared from other fronts every man who
can be released with n bill of health from
the hospitals for the wounded, is being
rushed to the Volhynian front
German prisoners captured wear uni
forms of all kinds. proving the mixed
character of the recent formations" says
last nights Russian Communique.
Tho forcing Of the Stokhod and the
capture of the Russians objective in the
fighting in this sector are believed here
shown the power and the men to accom-
plish this coup. and It is believed that the
end will come suddenly
At two other points on the East front
the RUSSIANS ceaSeleSS activity won for
them fresh successes yesterday. South of
Riga they captured and held against Won
Hindenburg's violent counter assaults a line
of trenches. Kuropatkin has only begun
his offensive on this front.
Along the wide Carpathian front General
Letchitsky is meeting with determined OPP
position, but is steadily advancing toward
the plains 81 Hungary. Mondays victory
along the Kirlibaba- a-Szlget line put the
Russians In control of four important lines
leading over the mountains into the enemy's
richest provinces the seizure of which would
strike vital blow not only at the Teuton
armies, but at the civilian population Of
both Austria Hungary and Germany de-
pendent on the food supplies which will be
reaped this summer and autumn from these
fertile lands.
To the northwest, along the Modava-
Breaza line, the fighting grows more bitter
each day Strongly ntrenched i'm the Car
pathian heights the AuStrians are conduct
ing the same fierce guerrilla warfare which
marked the end OF the first Russian envelop-
ment of Bukowina. East of the border. in
rough country where guns are OF no use
and where all operations eventually resolve
themselves into furious hand-to-hand COM
bats, the Austrians are holding with their
backs to the rugged Carpathian wall,
Along the Stripa and at countless other
Isolated points on the long front the Rus
slams are giving the nemy no rest. hurting
in attack after attack at his posi-
tions, feeling out" for further vulnerable
spots at which to strike and pave the way
for a new offensive.