New-York tribune., 1916-07-19
Advance Along the Lipa
Increases Menace to
Lemberg.
CARS MEN WIN FOUR
LINES INTO HUNGARY
Austrians at Bay in the Car
pathians-Germans Lose
Riga Line.

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Riga to the heart Of the Carpathians is
stirring London to its depths. As the
daily bulletins record success after
success for the Russian arms amaze
ment and admiration increase.
Teutons Yield on Lipa.
Southwest Of Lutsk the forces OF
Generals Won Linsingen and BoeAm-
Ermoli, materially weakened end de-
moralized by the powerful Russian
thrust which yesterday hurled them
across the Lower Lipa, are still yield
ing ground before furious assaults to
which there is apparently no end.
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 a
new route opened up to them in the
north for an advance on the Galician
capital.
Galician Towns Evacuated.
Already the threat to Lemberg has
become so great that. according TO well
authenticated reports from Rome,
towns and villages along the paths
leading to the stronghold from the
northern frontier are being hastily
evacuated.
The same newly won Russian lines
along the Lipa are constituting SINH
lar menace to Vladimir-Nolynski and
Kove' and TO the right flank Of the Teu-
ton forces defending the western bank
of the Stokhod. The "Boerse Gazette"
reports to-day that the Austrians and
Germans are strengthening the de-
fences of Vladimir-No,ynsM and kovel.
Villages are being razed TO permit OF
free artillery action against any ad-
vancing Russian armies, and half
starved peasants are being driven into
the outlying districts to dig trenches
and build shelters
At two other points on the East front
the Russians ceaseless activity won
for them fresh successes to-day. South
of Riga they captured and held against
Won Hindenburg's violent counter as
saults a line of trenches. KurOpatkin
has only begun his offensive on this
front.
Russians Gain at Carpathians.
Along the wide Carpathian front Cen
eral Letchitsky is meeting with deter
mined opposition, but is steadily ad-
vancing toward the plains Of Hungary.
Yesterdays victory along the Kirli-
baba-S Sziget 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 a vital blow not only at
the Teuton armies, but at the civilian
population of both Austria Hungary and
Germany, dependent on the food sup
plies which will be reaped this summer
and autumn from THESE fertile lands.
Near Zabe and Tatarow," is the la
comic admission Of Russian progress
made in Vienna's official announcement
to-day, "the Russians pressed back our
advanced posts"
Bitter Guerilla Warfare.
To the northwest OF these points,
along the Moldava -Breaza line, the
fighting grows more bitter each day.
Strongly intrenched in the Carpathlan
heights, the Austrians are conducting
the same fierce guerilla warfare which
marked the end of the first Russian en-
velspment 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 combats, the Aus
trians are holding their lines, driven
to desperation with their backs to the
rugged Carpathian wall.
Russians Hold Riga Lines.
To-day's Russian communication