Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-16
TOTAL NEARLY HALF OF
ORIGINAL EFFECTIvES
Francis Joseph's Armies Have Quit
Czernowitz, Bukowina
Capital.
sLAv ADVANCE IS SWIFT
Wholesale Abandonment of Military
Trains and Field Equipment
Feature of Teutonic
Retreat.

PETROGRAD, via London,
June Io.-The Austrians have
evacuated Czernowitz, capital of
Bukowina, according to dis
patches to the semi-oficial Petro-
grad news agency from Buko-
wilma by way of Bucharest.
Before abandoning the city the
Austrian authorities arrested a
number of persons who were
forced to accompany the retreat
ing troops. The railway rolling
stock was sent to Ilskani and the
tracks about the city were de-
stroyed. Trainloads of wounded
were dispatched to Dornavatra.
seventy-seven miles southwest Of
Czernowitz.
The capture of an additional
100 officers and 1900 men was
announced today by the war Of
fice, bringing the total to more
than 100000 who have been taken
by the Russians during the often
sive movement on the Volhyniar
and Galician fronts.
Confidence. prevails that the
catalogue of the successes won by
Gems. Brusiloff and Letchitsky is
by no means complete. 1t is es-
timated that the central powers
losses along the front from the
Pripet to the Ruranian border
now total 100000, or nearly half
the original electives.
Great Satisfaction Felt.
Great satisfaction is felt with the re-
establishment of contact with the Teu-
tons along the whole southwestern front.
but attention is chiefly centered upon the
operations for Kovel, Vladimir Volynski,
Czernowitz and Kolomea. Col Shumsky,
summarizing the results of the fighting
makes the deduction from the latest
Russian official statement that the entire
line of the Stripa now is occupied by the
Russians.
Northwest of Buczacz a number of good
roads run westward to the Podgaitse rail-
way, which is regarded as accounting for
the vigor of the resistance in this sector
to the Russian advance. The village of
Kozin fifteen miles southwest of Dubno,
captured by the Russians, is on the road
to Brody, which leads thence to Lemberg.
The precipitancy of the retreat of the
Austrians in many sectors is shown by
the fact that the Russians found several
telegraphic and telephone installations
intact and now are using them. The
cartridges captured in the Stripa trenches
would have sufficed for the use of the
Austrians in the most intense sort of
firing for several weeks.
Advance Develops Swiftly.
The Russian advance continues to
develop with a degree of swiftness
which has astonished the country. The
success of the movement thus far is
looked upon as the more remarkable in
view of the strong defenses which had
been erected by the Austrians during
the long period of preparation and
their supposed readiness for resistance
to any manner Of assault.
The outstanding features are the
steadily mounting number of prisoners.
augmented by the surrender of large
Austrian units in their entirety; the
wholesale abandonment of military
trains and all sorts of field equipment
in such enormous quantities that they
cannot yet be estimated. and finally. SO
far as is known here. the comparative
ly small extent of Russian losses.
Except in the center of the front
which runs from Noihynia to the Ru-
manian border the Austrians have
been wholly unable to resist the Rus
sian drive In the vicinity of Tarnopol
the opposing forces are still in dead
lock, but on both tanks. in the Lutsk
region and in the Dniester sector. the
widening constantly.
Advance Toward Kovel.
In the Lutsk region the Russian
forces, after piercing the Austrian lines
by capturing the fortress. have pro-
gressed in two diverging directions. to-
ward Kovel and Vladimir-volnyski. and
have attained the points only twenty
miles from both of these objectives.
1t is estimated by Russian officers
that the Austrians had lost nearly half
the forces operating on the southwest
ern front.
Much Of the effectiveness of the Rus
sian artillery in their great Galician
drive Is due to the use of big Japanese
guns. These guns are said to be more
powerful than any that the Russians
have had heretofore and are charged
with shells filled with a new explosive.
the destructive power OF which 10 ter
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