New-York tribune., 1916-07-18
Kuropa atkins Army
Opens Big Drive
on Hindenburg.
AUSTRIANS LOSE
CARPATHIAN LINE
Fall Back at Kirlibaba as
the Russian Forces
Sweep On.
tBy Cable 10 The Tribune ]

London, July 1.-THE Russians
have won another great success in
Volhynia. The blows of General
Brussiloff's forces southwest of
Lutsk have swept the Austro- Ger
man armies behind the Lipa River.
"Under the protection Of a Ger
man counter attack" says to-night's
Austrian official statement, "the Teu-
tonic troops south of Lutsk were
withdrawn behind the Lower Lipa,
unmolested by the enemy"
At the same, time General Kuro-
patkin, the Russian commander in
the north, launched a violent offen-
sive against Won Hindenburg's lines
on the Dvina River, General Letchit-
sky extended his lines near Kirli-
baba. on the frontier Of Transyl-
vania, and the Cars forces in Vol
hynia bagged an additional $1,000
prisoners in one short day of fight
ing.
The latest great Russian advance
was won through intense artillery
preparation, followed by quick, pow
erful thrusts at points previously
tested and found to be insufficiently
strong to withstand any great press
ure.
Russians Pierce Foes Lines.
Hammering relentlessly at General
Won Linsingen's positions southeast OF
Sviniuchy and near Pustomyty and
Szklin, the Russians finally pierced the
Teuton lines along a mile front at the
latter point and penetrated several
miles into the territory so obstinately
held by the enemy for weeks.
This victory again illustrates the
power of the Russian thrusts, the abil-
ity Of the Cars commanders to strike
at any point along the whole Eastern
front-and to strike with consternating
suddenness-and the impotency o. the
German and Austrian armies, however
we'll reinforced, to stem the tide of the
Russian advance except along strongly
fortified natural barriers.
Russian Blow Sudden.
The Russians achieved the same re-
suit by the same methods when they
threw the German forces back from the
Styr to the Stokhod There the enor-
nous forces brought up by the Teutons
have temporarily checked the Russian
advance toward Kovel.
But while the entire attention Of the
Austrians and Germans was being CEN
tired on the Stokhod line, the Russians
were making their usual complete prep
arations for the drive south Ct Lutsk,
which to-day achieved its primary OBJ
iect. Then they struck quickly. For
the first time since the Germans halted
their progress on the Stokhod the Rus
slams took up the cudgels and welded
tnem WIN ihPANiNy
which swept the enemy off his feet and
sent him flying to cover.
Menace to Lemberg.
Military critics here are agreed that
the Russians have won a great tactical
success. The retirement of the Teu-
tons TO the Lipa and beyond greatly
increases the double menace to which
Kovel and Lemberg are exposed. Strik-
ing south across the Galician border.
only a few miles away, the Russians
would press the Teutons back over the
Bug River, and from that line threaten
Lemberg as it has not been threatened
before in the present drive.
Hitting north and northwest from
their newly won positions. they would
imperil the German lines along the
Stokhod to a flank attack, which prob
ably would result in the retirement of
the Teutons to the Vladimfr-Vo Volynski-
Kovel line. Their present lines on the
north bank of the Lips constitute the
gravest menace to those two important
places.
Russian Iosser Severe.