The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-06
.LEMBERG CENTER OF GREAT RUSSIAN ARG Brussiloff's Line Is 300
 Miles Long Now IS USING CAVALRY Wild Cossacks Are Launched Against Austrians After Artillery Has
 Prepared the Way With
 Splendid Success


 dispatches from Petrograd, the steady advance of General Brussiloff's left wing, despite the desperate resistance of the Austro- Germans. dictates that in few days his front will assume the form of a regular arc centcred on Lem berg.
 The semi permanent Notifications of the Austro-Germans. these dispatches say, now have all been captured and de- destroyed on this front, where they we've planned to hold the Russians while the Italian campaign progressed. It is not believed that any formidable second or third line Qualifications have been constructed behind this front.
 General Brussiloffs front exceeds 300 miles in length and his left wing is about 23 miles from the Galician capi- tal The progress in the recent fighting indicates that the response which the Germans have chosen to make to Gen. eral Brussiloff's advance on both Hanks is by attempts to break through the Russian center.
 'In this respect" comments the Posts Petrograd correspondent, "the Germans are repeating what cost the Austrians the loss of Galicia nearly two years ago. It is a correct aSWer to Brussiloff's movement. according to the textbooks. but neither then nor now are pre-conceived textbook rules safely applicable to the Russians military strategy.
 For instance. the Russians have re- vived methods of warfare of remote ages by unexpectedly introducing cav airy and sending them against enemy trenches with satisfactory results.
 ''The Russians have found that mad dened horses cannot be stopped by bul- let's while the Cossack riders present no easy mark when charging in their peculiar formation. One of Brussiloffs methods in the present advance has been to send cavalry charging upon positions which the artillery had pre- pared for an attack The cavalry charges immediately after the in fantry, occasionally without infantry
 "The Russian cavalry, besides ability to fight. mounted or afoot. has an ad- vantage over other cavalry owing to the cheapness and nexhaustible sup ply of native horses and to their horsemanship.
 London, July 5.-A Budapest dispatch to the Post says:
 Considerable numbers of the popula- ton have been fleeing from Lemberg in the last few days for Hungary and Cra- COW. So extensive has been the exodus that the commander at Lemberg has issued the assuring statement that Lemberg is not in danger yet. He ad- vises the people not to leave the city" ~~~~-o-~-~~~~~~~~> and proper development of our city. wish to- say that the campaign of The Age-Herald against typhoid deserves the commendation of all good citizens. It is regrettable that such a campaign didn't develop many years ago. As a mater of fact, we have had every year and unreasonable amount of typhoid, but neither the reports nor the publicity were as complete as they are now, and the result is already manifest to the extent that hundreds of people who would have refused to be vaccinated under any other conditions willingly submit to the treat ment now and even seek it.
 Many theories have been advanced by the city concerning the causation and at whose door the greatest responsibility lies, and while the city is attempting to shift the responsibility off on various in stitutions, I say unhesitatingly that the city and the city only is solely and en- tirely to blame for present conditions in not being prepared all of these years with thorough public health service system, .dHu the dQfllnlSlTdtlOn or pre- ventative measures. rather than raising a cry at time when the milk has all ready been split"
 Lest someone should construe my as- sertion a reflection on the health of- ficer just retired or the one that is now in charge of the health department. I de- sire to say that no one could possibly hold the two gentlemen in question with la higher esteem than myself; no one could have more faith in their abilities to cope with emergencies as they arise. But with all of my faith and all of my supreme respect for them, the fact still duate means to properly and quickly collect all garbage to enforce laws of sanitation, a city health officer is like hero who is asked to defend his coun- try, but who is chained in prison and unable to arm himself for the defense necessary.
 Iii addition to the above, have this suggestion: The responsibility for the city's health should be placed entirely in the hands of the health officer, under whose supervision and entire control should be the entire health and sanita- ton department. He should be, of course, a man thoroughly trained in pub lie health matters, as the science of public health is as much a speciality as any, other speciality. Birmingham is toe big, too great, and needs all the good ad- vertsement possible to secure. and we should see to it that the very best pos sible efficiency is obtained in our de-