Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-30
TEUTONS POUND RUSSIAN
LINES ON THE DVINA

| Continued from Page One
| the doom of the Hungarian arm.
now retreating toward the Transylvanlai
| passes. as the latter would then be deprived
| of all hope of rejolning the northern Aus
| trian wing Moreover, the Russian success
IL followed up by. further advance. will
straighten out General Brusloff's line g,
as to consolidate his centre and right wing
automatically forcing the Germans to fal
back in Volynia and abandon Kovel
TEUToNs ADMIT RETREAT.
Vienna admitted last night that east ot
Kolomea" the Russians made 'massed at
tacts" on front of 25 miles and that "at
numerous points" the attackers succeeded
in advancing. In the evening. however. II
is asserted. the Russians were forced &c
evacuate "a portion" of the Austro-H Hun.
garian front near Kolomea and southwark
The statement refers to hand-to-hand con.
flicts and says desperate fighting" Is in
progress
The Austrian War Office declares Rus
sian attacks on the Dniester line were re-
pulsed north of Obertyn which is 13 miles
northeast of kolomea. In Volhyna the
situation is asserted to be quiet.
The total of the Cars captives Is now
estimated at not fewer than 205,000 men.
an army which would stand the Teutonic
Allies in good stead at this time, when
Allied offensives on three fronts are prom
ised.
OF far greater Significance however. is
the new dent forced into the defenders
lines in Galicia. Kovel and Lemberg are
the two objectives of the Russian drive.
Their capture means retreat of the Ger
mans to the line of the Bug in Poland and
the loss OF large part of Galca to the
Cars armies.
THE STRUGGLE FOR KOVEL.
On the Kovel front the Russians are not
a1a
mans are slowly forcing the enemy back
around Sokul. But in this sector a salient
has been driven into the Teuton trenches
Russian strategy is, of course. not to force
an advance until such an attempt Is free
from danger of an envelOping counter
movement.
Before General Brusiloff begins n new
drive to clear the ten miles to rxovel, he
must straighten his line to the south-in
Galicia. 1t is here that the Russians must
again break through Austrian lines-lines
which have always crumpled before Rus
sian attacks. In Volhynia Germans block
the way-and German lines have always
stood firm against their Eastern enemy
Thus the Cars generals are hammerinR
at the Austrian lines and forging through
them. Lemberg will be won not by an at
tack from the north but by flankins
movement from the south, through Kolo-
mea. When Kolomea falls control OF the
railway to Lemberg will be laid open TO
the invaders. With this road wrested from
the Austrians the latter would be compelled
to fall back to the Styr-Lemberg line and
the fall of the Galiclan capital would be
assured. Then the path would be open for
new sweep over the Carpathans
In Bukowina, too, the Russians are adj
vanclng, The occupation of Kimpolung
on the border railroads, opens all routes into
Hungary Thus the Rumanian frontier of
Bukowina is completely in control of the
invader. Bucharest cannot look with in
difference on these important successes, and
the long-expected advent of Rumanla into
the war on the side of the Entente Allies
may soon be brought to pass