The Washington times., 1916-06-15
RUSSIANS CUT
Off AUSTR|ANS
IN CzERNOWITz
Unofficial Reports Say Slavic
Flanking Move in Bukowina
Has Been Successful.
K0L0MEA is THE OBJECTIVE

fElKOGkAD, june lo.-Ihs
Russian offensive concentrating
just north Of Czernowitz in an e.
fort to push through and cut of
the defenders Of the Bukowins
capital from Lemberg on the north
has succeeded according to unof.
fetal, though reliable, reports re-
ceived here.
The Cars soldiers have ad.
vanced along the Pruth practically
to the gates Of Czernowitz and
Immediately to the north Of i,
have taken several points along
the direct line Of railroad running
toward Lemb.rg, the Galician cap.
ital. Kolomea is the objective oil
the north Of Czernowitz attack.
Should this town fall, Czerno-
WITT would be without direct rail
communication with Lemberg,
though it could be munitioned and
supplied with men from there by
sending them on a wide dstour to
the west.
BITTER EXPEDIENT.
A successful drive on Csernowitz with
persistence in the offensive immedi-
ately to the north would force the Aus
TRANS to the bitter expedient of re-
treating through the Carpathians.
Continuation OF the attacks In the
region Of Kovel and Lemberg are re-
ported. without. however. the enormous
gains Of the first several days Of the
drive. still other asgressives are re-
ported against the German portion of
the line north Of Pinsk. Here the Rus
slams have not been so successful az in
the South.
The first massed attack against Won
Hfndenburg's lines since the often
sive In the south began was delivered
when after a systematic artillery
preparation by heaviest guns at the
Russians disposal troops In dense for
nation launched n furious assault
against the Austro- German positions
north of Baronovitchi.
Broke Down Each Time.
The attack was repeated six times.
but according TO both the German
and Austrian reports. each broke
down under the TeutUn fire with seri-
Gus losses to the attackers, who in
their retreat were placed undsr the
IRE or their own artillery.
Tfese attacks marked the Initiation.
It Ia believed, OF q general Russian
offensive In the north aimed Mt crush-
Ing In the Teuton front to remove the
DANGER OF thanking movement
against General Brusilofrs army.
Barorovitchi Is an important rail-
way intersection of great strategical
hghtirg during the Russian retreat
last autumn. II Is the conyerpjne-
point 81 the Best-Litovsk- Moscow
ana Wilna-Rovno railways Sixty
one miles to the west lies Ida. one Of
the commanding points Of the entire
railway s|stems or western Russia
Cross Galician Frontier.
The capture of the town of Kozin,
on the PlaJashewka river, announced
by Petograd last night, places. the
Russian advance from Dubno seven
teen miles south of that fortress and
less than twelve miles from the Cali
clan border. which has already been
crossed by Russian cavalry to the
south and west. The advance here
along the Dubno- Lembere raiIway
emphasizes the Russian Intention to
drive to the heart of Galicia from the
north. northwest, west, and south.
DISPATCHES from Berlin say that the
arrival OF the "unconquerabie Ger
man troops" stopped the Russian Of
fensiye on the Austrian front The
Frankfurter Zeitung. admitting Gem
eral Brusiloff's successes, saws:
IF the Russians had been able To
Develop. these initial successes IL
would have been impossible to avoid
difficulties for the Austrians wbich
would have reflected upon our stra-
tegic position. Counter measures
adopted by us justify the hope that
feared. '"eoi no
Nevertheless long and difficult
nghting must be reckoned with in the
east. where trench warfare has given
way to open combat"
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