New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-13
GermanSL SLaunchDrive
in North to Re-
lieve Allies.
AUSTRIANS WIN
GALICIAN LINE
Resist FuriouSly Near
Buczacz-114,000 Teu-
tons Taken.

Petrocrad. June 12.-The Russian
armies are hammering at the gates
NJ Czernowitz. the fortress-capital OF
Bukowina and continuing the sweep
forward in Galicia and Volhynia tow
ard Lemberg and Kovel. The Ger
mans have taken the offensive at
several points along the northern
front to relieve the pressure on their
allv's line from the Pripet marches
to Rumania. German troops, IN
numbers not sufficient to weaken the
Kaiser's own lines. have been rushed
10 the weakest places in the battered
9OO-mile front, and trainloads of
Austrians have been taken from the
Italian front to bolster up the crump-
ling columns to the north.
So far the diversions have had no
effect on the Russian offensive move
ment. except to slow up the advance
os General Brussiloff's troops north
of Tarnopol and Buczacz, and near
Kolki. north of Lutsk. The fury OF
the Austro-German attacks in these
regions have forced the Russians TO
give way little, but they are fight
ing 10 regain the lost ground with
the desperation that has character
L. 4
,zed all their assaults in the eight
days offensive.
Germans Attack in North
The deadly fire Of the Russians IN
the north. where, as along the SOUTH
ern front, they appear to have on
band unlimited supplies Of ammuni-
ton has checked all German at
temnts 20 smash through the oppos-
inc lines. At Jacobstadt, at Dris-
viatv at Krevo and Kotchany' ana
along the banks of the Jasiolda
River. violent attempts 70 take tne
offensive broke down with terr'hc
losses to the attacking armies
The greatest Russian successes yes
,srdsv took place in the region SCUM
=, the Dniester. General Lechitzky 5
troops. flushed with the great VIC
tory Of the day before, which orougns
them 10000 Hungarian prisoners a"U
,spt the enemy fleeing in DISORDER
sven. forward to the Zalesczyky bridge-
head. thirty miles northeast OF OZer-
powitz and after overcoming sharp re-
sstapes from the enemy forces pusheo
m toward the Bukowina capital.
The Austrians swiftly retreated 70
the fortress which twice before shel-
tered the Russians earlier in the war
blowing up bridges as they heo'
Dobronovtze, a commanding point ten
miles northeast Of the fortress fell
before the onrush, and the Cars hosts
then pushed forward TO the suburbs oil
Czernowitz. The capture Of the strong
hold is only a matter Of hours II II
has not already been accomplished
$4,000 Prisoners Taken.
The total number Of prisoners taken
by the Russians was increased TO more
than $4,000 during the days hghting.
Conservative estimates place the total
losses OF the Austrians In the nine
Gay offensive at from 250,0OO to 100000
Although the Russian captures IN
the last eight days have been enormous
even in comparison with the number
Of prisoners and amount Of booty taken
in other great ofIensives Of the war
military experts here hold that they
will continue TO increase rather than
fall OF, just as the rate of progress oil
the Russian troops along the whole
front is expected to be accelerated
The reason given for this view is
tia, the Austrian line has been shat
tered in so many places that there are
many isolated sectors Of twenty, thirty
Or forty miles which il will be com
paratively easy for the Russians to
compass. with enormous results IN
hn'urcs.