New Britain herald., 1916-06-19
RUSSIAN HAMMER
 HITS CzERNOWITZ
Austrians Forced to Flee Impor-
 tant City Before CZar'S Horde

London, Monday, June 19-After hard fighting in the suburbs and on the River Pruth, where the Austrians fought desperately with a view to gaining time for the evacuation of Czernowitz by their army and the removal of military stores from city, General Lechnitzky, it is announced officially, has finally entered the capi- tai of Bukowina.
 The capture is an important one, as it entails the command of several im- portant railway lines. The city had been untenable for several days be- cause of the tremendous Russian bom- bardment, which compelled the flight of the civil inhabitants and evacuation of the place by the Austrian forces. It is expected that further details of the capture will show that both sides suffered sanguinary losses.
 The recapure of Czernowitz by the Russians comes at dramatic moment, happening only a few days after the Austrians, with imposing ceremony, had unveiled on the city hall a double headed Austrian eagle, such as the Russians had removed during their occupation of the city last year.
 Cavalry in Hot Pursuit.
 Russian headquarters announces the capture of Czernowitz in the usual lacOnic terms. It gives no description of the desperate fighting known to have occurred for the crossings of the Pruth river after the Austrians blew up the bridges, but adds the interest ing fact that the Austrians are being pursued into the Carpathians which is the only alternative to being driven in to Rumania, where they would be in termed.
 This pursuit appears to show that the Russian cavalry is still active, but the military critics here are beginning to wonder how long the Russians can maintain the rapid advance, which must be tending to attentuate their lines of communication.
 Austrian headquarters has admitted the loss of Czernowitz with alacrity, but at the same time claims that the Austrians are holding the Russians in Volhynia and with the aid of the Ger mans, north of the Torya river, which is an affluent of the Pripet, Joining the latter river north of KOvel.
 The Russian official account makes the interesting revelation that German endorsements have already been brought from the French front to the assistance of the hard pressed Aus trians.
 KOvel, Thorn in Cars Side.
 Kovel, while it remains in Austrian hands, is an ideal base for operations against the Russian flank in Volhynia, and it remains to be seen whether Ger many can afford to bring enough troops from the Verdun enterprise or the Austrians from their operations against Italy, to save the situation and hold the salient formed by the resist ance they have maintained on their center, while the Russians thrust In on the two Hanks, through Lutsk and Czernowitz. What seems clear is that the Russian drive must have a tre- mendous influence in all the theaters of the war.
 Reuter- despatch from Petrograd says:
 The net strategical result of the fortnight's fighting is that the Rus sians hold practically straight line between Lutsk, Buczacz, and Czerno- witz. The military critics point out that the capture of Radziviloff, and the driving of the enemy forces to Brody, and, in all likelihood, further in the direction of Lemberg will al- most inevitably compel the withdrawal of the Austrian center from the Tarnopol region.
 "The Russians advancing across the Volhynian-G -Galician frontier are. according to the latest dispatches, less than sixty miles from Lemberg. The