The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-19

witz, filed several days before the fall of the city, gave graphic descriptions of the desperate struggle waged for possession of the capital of BukOwina.
 The correspondent of the Berliner Tageb1att, in a despatch relayed through Amsterdam, tells, under date of June IA, of the flight of the popuIa- tion from the city. While the people were beginning their flight the Rus sian bombard rdment began. A terrible panic ensued.
 The following day came incendiary shells and many fires were caused. That night the Russians made a sur prise attack on the town, preceded by a. bonnbardment The defenders an swered spiritedly, and the battle ragged until o'clock in the morning, lwhen the Russians were checked, for 1 the time being, at the River Pruth. i The next morning another attack on the Austrian bridgehead also failed, l with heavy losses to the Russians, | hundreds of whom were drowned in l the river.
 Other despatches give similar ac- 1 counts of the panic, the bombardment and the infantry assaults, and em- phasize the damage being done the city by the Russian shells.
 The whole brunt of the first on- slaught on Lutsk fell on two divisions, | of which only sorry remnants sur 1 vived, according to Austrian prison | CTS says a Reuter- Petrograd despatch. After the destruction of these d1V1- sions the Russians poured through the Austrian line, menacing the rear of | Archduke Joseph Ferdinand's Fourth Army This necessitated the precfp- itate evacuation of the whole Lutsk | region.
 The day on which Gen. Brusi1off' S movement began, says the despatch, Ichanced to be the sixtieth birthday of | Archduke Frederick, Commander in Chief of the Austrian army, who came | to Archduke Joseph F'erdinand's staff | headQuarterSf at LutSk in order to | celebrate the occasion with the army. Lutsk was decorated with the Aus trian and Hungarian colors and there 1 were il1uminations in the evening. There was review of the troops and l the holders of the Order of the Iron l Crown in the Town Hal Square
 Archduke Frederick extolled the valor | of the soldiers, whom he exhorted to fresh victories, which, he declared, would soon bring them to a long and happy peace.
 | "Both Archdukes,' continues the despatch, were among the gayest of the gay, sublimely unconscious of the imminent catastrophe. When Frederick was informed that the Rus sians had opened a hurricane of gun fire along the whole front, which seemingly presaged a general attack he dismissed the nOllOh as JOfAO Isaying, We know these attacks; they just blaze away to silence. As however, hour after hour elaps-
 ed and the firing did not cease, Arch duke Frederick became increasingly
 uneasy, and when the news was | brought that the Russians had broker the first line of the Lutsk defenses
 and the Austrians were fleeing. pur- sued by the Russians, he was over come by despair. Strategic reserve: were called up; the Thirteenth Land l wehr Division was thrown into the
 main breach, but to no avail.
 shared the fate of it's predecessor.
 Another Reuter- despatch from Pc
 tragrad says:
 '"The net strategica1 result of tht
 fortnight's fighting is that the Rus
 sians hold practically straight line
 between Lutsk, Buczacz and Czerno
 witz. The military critics point ou | the driving of the enemy forces tC
 Brody and, in all likelihood, further
 in the direction of Lemberg. will al
 most inevitably compel the withdraw
 al of the Austrian centre from thu
 Tarnopol region.
 ''The Russians advancing across thu
 Volhynian-Galiciar frontier, accord Ing to the latest despatches, are les
 than 60 miles ron 4-emberg. I'm
 fact that Russian cavalry has beer Il able to occupy Radziviloff shows Aus | trian recognition of the futility of en
 deavoring seriously to oppose th'
 Russian passage of the frontier.