Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-09
Determined to Recapture
City Wrested From Them
A Year Ago
AUSTRIANS RETREAT
Muscovites Claim to Have Taken 50,-
900 Prisoners and Fix Enemy's Loss
at 100000 Men ;.

London, June y. - Lemperg, Ihe
great fortress and city of northeast
Austria, about $50 miles from the
battle front east of Brody, is the i'm,
mediate goal of the onrushing Rus
sian bear, in the belief of the Lon
don cnrresccs.ddssnts at the front.
Lemberg is ABOUT 100 miles from,
and almost directly east of the Prz'
emysl, the scene of some OF the her
cest of the eastern front fighting
early in the war.
According to Petrograd dispatch;
the five Austrian armies along the
front are in full retreat. in the re-
alization that they could not hold
their positions against the artilier.
attacks of the Russians-the great
est of the war on the eastern front.
Petrograd now claims, $4,000 Aus
train prisoners, and sets the Aus,
train sasualities of the present often
sive, five days old, at nearly 100000.
The greatest gain for the Russians
is Lutsk, the third corner of th'
Volhynian triangle Aof fortresses.
At this point the Russians drove the
Austrians back twenty-five miles
practically without halt
Petrograd, June S-The capture o.
Lutsk, in Volhynia, aad rslso of .
series of powerful organized Austrian
positions is announced in an officla
communication given out here.
In addition to the Austrians pre-
viously captured in the offensive
movement recently inaugurated, Tho
statement says there were capture'
in Wednesdays fighting 5S officer'
and 1000 men. A large amount o.
war material was taken.
According to details supplementlns
the official reports of the Russian
success, the artillery preparation b,
which the Russians cleared the patl
for the infantry surpassed in inten,
sity all previous efforts of their gun,
ners.
Guns of all sizes contributed to tht
rain of shellfire. Some of the bat
teries emitted continual roar. Who'll
fields of wire were swept away with
astonishing rapidity.
The retreat of certain Austrian
detachments was completely cut of
by a curtain of shrapnel, through
which it was impossible for any liv,
ing thing to pass. They surrendered
by the wholesale.
A well-informed military critic
says:
All five of the Austrian armies are
on the eve of retreat and Lemberg /:
in great strategic danger. A breach
100 miles wide has been blown in the
Austrian front, involving the left
wing of General Linzingers army
group, which consisted of from 1S tt
20 divisions.
The communication says:
"On Tuesday we developed our OF.
fensive in the direction of Rovno anc
Kovel, and keeping on the heels OF
the overthrown enemy and following
a battle in the region of Lutsk, WI
occupied that town. In many place:
we have seized not only the lines OF
the Rivers Ikwa and. Styr, but have
crossed them and continued our Of
fensive.
"In Galicia, on the Lower Strlpa
our infantry, supported by artillery
fire, captured by an energetic ad'
vance number of powerful enem!
organized positions on the front ot
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and have
arrived quite near the line Of thu
Stripa River. -
an addition to the 10000 prison
ers previously taken, we took in the
course of Wednesdays fighting SO Of
fcers and about 1000 men and cap
tured number of guns and machine
guns, quantity of other weapons
field kitchens and telephone ma
terial.
"The results of the engagement!
from the 4th to the 7th in Volhynis
and Galicia permit US to consider
tbat we have already gained an i'm