Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-21
CzAR MOVING
ON LEMBERG
,sk,, IL
Three Separate Lines of
Russians Press Forward
to Strike
KAISER SENDING AID
Teutons Said to Have Stiffened Aus
trians' Resistance and Checked Rus
sian Onrush

London, June 21-Six German di-
visions-120,000 men have been
hurried eastward to oppose the Rus
sian offensive bearing down upon
Lemberg, Geneva dispatches report.
ed today.ss
Two German divisions are en- route
to the Lutzk-Kovel front, The Aus
trians, supported by German troops
are counter attacking with great Vi
gor on this northern flank of Gem
eral Brusiloff's armies and appear to
have checked temporarily at least
the Russian advance.
Four German divisions are being
rushed into action on the thirty-mlle
front from Brody southwark to a
point east of Przemyslany. The Rus
slams have opened heavy artillery
attack on this line, evidently in pre-
paration for hard smash toward
Lemberg.
Dispatches from Berlin and Vienna
today admitted that the Austrian
right wing, under General Pfanzor,
continues a rapid retreat before the
Russians in Bukowina. The terrific
force of the Russian artillery fire is
causing Phanzor to retire rather than
sacrifice his men. Vienna reported,
but it is expected he soon will make
stand against the Russians.
Petrograd. June 2l-On the north
crn flank of General Brusilohf's front
the Austrian resistance, considerably
stifened by the arrival Of large Ger
man reinforcements, has succeeded in
checking the Russian drive between
Lutsk and Kovel, which, directed
against Vladimir-Volynsk, aims at
destroying the Austrian communica'
tions between Kovel and l.cmberg.
But in spite of the violent Austro
German counter-attacks, one OF
lines, the latest reports are to the ef-
feet that the Russians have again
resumed progress in this sector, af-
ter taking the usual toll of prisoners.
On the southern flank the Aus
trians have been unable to check, even
momentarily, the Russian advance to-
ward Kolomea and toward the final
Dniester fortification of Halich.
General Pfanzer, the Austrian COM
mander, apparently is paying the pen
atty for having too long delayed his
retirement from CZernowitz and his
army, now cut in two, is reported to
be in precipitate flight, one part along
the Roumanian frontier and the other
into the Carpathians.
Turning from Czernowitz General
Ketchitsky's forces are pressing their
flank attack north and have reached
point on the Zlota ipa, some miles
to the northwest of Czernowitz, Rus.
sian military critics consider it un-
likelv that the Austrians will be able
to hold the Zlota ipa line, but will be
forced back upon Halch.
The separate Russian movements
now are showing a strongly ceptra liz
cd tendency. There are those converg-
ing lines of advances the common
objective of which is Lemberg. The
first of these lines is approaching
Vladimir-Volynski the second Brody,
the third Halich. The capture OF any
one of these towns would place the
Galician capital in a position Of grave
danger.
The total number of prisoners taken
bv the Russians now is estimated at
fI70,OO0.
Berlin. June 21-German troops
have. broken the resistance of the
Russians at. various points northwest
of Lutsk and are fighting their way
forward, the War Office announces.
The German successes were won be-
tween the Kovel-Lutsk Railroad and
the Turia River. The resistance of
the Russians was especially stubborn
in the region of Kiselin, % miles
northwest of Lutsk.