New-York tribune., 1917-07-31
Russians Halt
Teuton Drive
AT Frontier
Stand on Border. Heights,
but Continue Retreat
Along Dniester
Rumanians Storm
Six More Villages
Sweep Forward Several
Miles on Moldavia
Battle Front

London, July 30.-The Russians are
finally attempting to make stand on
their own soil Though the Germans
have crossed the Zbrocz River, which
forms the border between Eastern Ga
licia and Russia, at several points and
in considerable bodies, Berlin reports
that the Russians are holding the
heights east Of the stream and offering
fierce resistance. The night bulletin
indicates that at this point the Teu-
tonic advance has been halted, at least
for the time being.
Between this battlefield and the
Dniester River the Russian front Is
, still being withdrawn, probably to the
, frontier, and the Austro- Germans have
passed beyond Korolowka. which is lit
tie more than ten miles from the bor-
der. South of the Dniester, however,
Korniloff's Seventh Army is showing
more fight, and it appears to be the
/ intention of the Russian commander to
hold, If possible, Czernowitz, and d
broad strip of Bukowina as a defensive
belt before Bessarabia, one of the
chief Slavic granaries.
Below Zaleeszezyky, on the Dniester,
near its confluence with the upper
Sereth, the Germans admit they en-
countered a "bitter" defence which,
however, did not save the Russians
from being pressed back. Southwest
ward the Teutons are making progress
along the Cheremosh River, and over
the Bukowina border are moving up the
Sushawa and Moldova valleys, but more
slowly and with greater difficulty.
Battle Line Resembles "S"
Over the great stretch of territory
from north of Tarnopol to the Ru-
manian border the battle line now lies
| in the shape of huge reversed as"
The northern and eastward swell of the
line crosses the Russian frontier for
about twenty miles and the reverse
swell on the south swings around and
| bulges out westward beyond Ger
nowitz and then down into the Car
| pathians. r-r
The German advance in the north,
where the eleventh Russian army was
} cisastrously broken, has been much
I swifter than south of the Dniester,
where the seventh army, the best of
| the Russian fighting forces, conducted
a more orderly retreat. Therefore, the
! German troops across the Russian
| frontier stand at the point of huge
| salient, which there may be danger in
extending. So the comparative slow
! ing down Of the Teuton advance, which
is noted in to-day's bulletins, may be
due quite as much to German caution
as to Russian recovery.
There is also q political aspect to the
situation. An invasion - White Rus
sia at this time might be an embarass-
ing military commentary on the unot-
fetal peace overtures which the I'M
perial German Chancellor is aiming at
the Moscow conference.
Rumanians Driving Ahead
II is not likely that the Teutonic for
ward movement in Galicia has been
much hampered by the Russo -Rumanian
| OUGnSlNe INTO glNduia, bil'NbH NN
the last reports this was continuing
upon a normal course. A bulletin from
the Rumanian General Staff at Jassy
declares that on Friday General Az
erescu had pushed his eighteen-mile
front several miles ahead between the
Casin and Putna valleys, storming SIX
villages and capturing many prisoners
and a number of motor batteries. DIS
patches from Petrograd say the Russo
Rumanians are proceeding circumspect-
ly so as not TO expose themselves 70
counter blow.
This, however, has already been
launched by Field Marshal Won Mack.
epsen In the region north of Fokshani
and at the mouth of the Rimnicul Riv-
er. He is evidently thrusting northward
with considerable strength INTO the
Rumanian southern front, though with
what success il is still too early TO
saw. Berlin asserts that several hun
drcd prisoners have been captured and
that the Russians guarding this sector
are retreatlng.
Correspondents on the Rumanian
front announce that German agents
have been busy both among the Ru-
manian troops and peasantry urging
them to follow "the example Of the
Russian army" During the last
week, II is said, fifty Germans dis
guised in Russian uniforms have
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