New-York tribune., 1916-06-20
AustrianS in BukoWina
Cut Off by Swift
Advance.
RUSSIANS MOVE
NEARER LEMBERG
CITY Threatened from Two
Sides-3,000 Prison
ers Taken.

London, June l9.-The Russians have
battered back the Austrian and Ger
nan armies at virtually all the impor-
,.Bt points on the 25O-mile line from
,be Pripet marshes 70 the Rumsnian
frontier.
IN Volhynis they have pressed TO
within fifteen miles Of Vladimir-Volyn-
SKI. the capture Of which will flank the
Austro- German forces at Kovel and
compel their retirement from that i'm
po-tsnt railroad centre. The left flank
Of the Russian army that is thrusting
southwest from Lutsk has spread 10
within ten miles Of the Austrian from
tier at Stojanof. from which place a
railroad line runs into Lemberg.
Along the Dubno-Lomberg railway
The Russians have left Radziviloff well
in the rear and are closing in on the
frontier town Of Brody which is the
halfway mark in their drive toward
the Galicisn capital.
Austrian Collapse Foreseen.
The other Russian advance on Lem
berg is being directed from point
north OF Buczacz toward Halicz, from
which latter town the road 70 Lem
berg Is an easy one and almost un-
fortified. The effect Of the advance OF
these two lines is 10 place the Austrian
centre near the Tarnspol extended po-
sition in great danger, and an Austrian
collapse here is considered inevitable
bv military observers here.
In Bukowina the southern Austrian
army is in hasty fight toward the Car
pa.bians, hard pressed by the Russians
under General Lechnitzky General
Planners army is now isolated, &C
eordine TO Reuters Petrograd CORE
,po,dent. A portion of the defeated
lrs+rians are retiring westward toward
Kolonea and Kuty, while the remain
dsr are fleeing southwark in the direc-
tion Of Dornavatra.
Bukovina Situation.
The occupation Of Czernowitz by IN,
Russians has enabled them 20 estab-
lisb direct connections from the from
tier 70 Sniatyn by the shortest and
most convenient route, which VIII
greatly facilitate the Russian progress
toward Kolomea. and, by obviating fur-
ther the necessity Of turning move
nent allow the Russian southern
forces TO advance solidly from the
Czernowitz region westward.
According TO Colonel Shumsky, the
military critic of the "Bourse Gazette
the taking of Czernowitz means the
Rusfian occupation Of the whole OF
Bukowina, since there are no defensive
lines on the way TO the Carpathians.
The writer says that it is apparent
from all recent reports that the hrst
shock Of the Russian attack has sub
sided. and that the period OF lightning
assaults, terminating in the wholesale
capture Of prisoners and the penetra-
ton of the Austrian lines, will now be
succeeded by a steady and stubborn
struggle, in which the shaken Austrian
forces. aided by considerable German
feinforcements, have sufficiently recov-
cred themselves to be capable Of sharp
counter attacks, which are becoming
more and more frequent
Germans in North Menaced.
Upon the success Of this resistance,
Colonel Shumsky adds. depends not
only the fate Of Lemberg, but the sit
uation Of the German armies, which
with Lemberg in Russian hands, would
necessarily be forced to retire along
the whole Of the northern front, which
they have held for nearly year.
Such an Austrian stant, in the unani'
nous opinion Of military officials here
will be an impossibility, as the sep
arated Austrian armies are unable te
Communicate with each other, and, al
available troops and reserves having
been called up, a quick rehabilitation
Of the crippled armies Of the Aus
trians is manifestly unlikely.
Heavy fighting between the Russians
Advancing toward Kovel and the Ger
mans under General Won Linsingen is
reported by the Berlin "Tageblatt'''
correspondent at Austrian headqusr
ters, according TO Amsterdam dispatch
20 the Exchange Telegraph Company
The Russians are in superior numbers
and the dispatch asserts that the
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