The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-11
London Officially Reports That
the AuStrians Have Ordered
the Evacuation Of thereby
Which Is Key To All 'Gahcia
RUSSIANS HURLlNG VAST
MASSES AT SHAKY FOES
Petrograd Says That Troops Un-
der Command Of General Let
chitsky Have Cut Railroad Used
As Supply Line BY Teutons
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal Wireless,

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wireles)
7 ONDON, August o--Lrmberg. key
TO the Tcut"nir position in Cali.
cin, has been ordered evacuated by
the Vienna government. nd the crash,
ing blows Of the armies under General
BrussilOH have been I"duuhlrd.
Official announcement Of these facts
was mndC public here last night, follow.
ing the receipt of Information TINT the
Russians have resumed. their offensive
in the southern sectors of the BATTLE
lines south Of the Priprt marshes, and
have smashed the i, f,nse Of fhe
AmstroGermanic armies. taking more
than sixty-one square miles of territory
from the Austrians. and driving them
back in rout toward their lines on
the Stryj river.
Slavs Careless OF Life -
The fighting has been Of the most
desperate character, the Russians utter
~ regardless of the cost have hurled
vast masses of men and guns ut the
shnky Austrian lines, and kept batter.
ing away until they forced the .Teu-
tons out Of their positions and com
PEELED them to fall back.
TIL" Urimlry results If this fChthlr
appears to have been that the Austrians
lost control of the roads and railroads
which they have been using 30 send sup
plies to their lines in the vieilhty az
ZIOta Lipa liver. -,
Two Towns Captured b..
The two towns of Brzezany and
Tlumach, on that river have been taken
by the Russians under the command If
General Letchitsky, who were able to
repell number of cOunter.attacks nv
the Teutons and later to advance sufIi.
GENTLY to cut the railroad line. supply.
ing the whole of the Austrian armIcs
in this sector of the eastern front.
South and east Of the Dneister river
the Russians have succeeded in lri wing
tn" AuStriuns back over q. wide Front.
and in what Petrograd charactcrizrs us
complete rOut In the direct IN #
Tyszn"rn the Slav troops who have
been largely reinforced, according to
reports reaching here, battered down
all successful opposition over line
more than fifteen miles wide
SlaVs Capture Ridge
Here also they were successful in
"usting the AustrianS from their posi-
ti"nS along u ridge that comma nded tho
country to the east and south. ,ud now
are said to hold the entire line.
Northwest of KOlomea along the
Stunislau railroad the Russians have
launched series of cavalry attacks
which have succeeded in driving the
Austlinns out of their pOsiti rs and
compelling them to retreat in the dircc-
ti"n of Stanislau, one Of the Subsidiary
"hirctiNcs If General Brussiloff's offan-
SiNr. and the south key to Lcmberr.
The Trutonir losses during the last few
days fighting have been terrifcIv
heavy in killed, wounded and capturci.
TN" Russians officially r,pnrt That they
have taken Sil5 men and 1865 officers
prisoners.
Fh" Berlin Official report of this
fighting admits the success of the Slnv
drive. and saws that the armies of the
Car have advanced from Tlnrinrh to
ptvni". II odds that the German lines
we're withdrawn to positions. previously
prepared. i ARkfThTE *
Would Isolate Lemberg
Tn" object f tn" Russian movement
in thiS sector of the war il evidently
t" at u" railroads leading from HUI
gary I" lCmh""". ard crossing ths Chr.
I'thjNm w"Hnt"ins This mapampnt. il
not halted by the Austrians yeaUfr qpgn
mars VIII fore" tn" evacuation ~ Lem.
berg ~ ""t unlikely the evacuation ~
all uf Gnhri'r ~.
1t j. 4 rr""t'tj"r of the st"Ntecv of
'hr '' ~ Nul' Nicholas IN l9l, whea
ne eat thr"n',n the railroad lines AMI
r"m"rll"d the Austrian Crown. Prince
t" abandon I."mh"rg, eventually all Of
GalrrIn >"v" II fringe west and north
west Of Pr"Icmysl. '' 'l'1"E o..