The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-12
RUSS ARMIES
ARE MENAC|NG
CITY LEMBERG
They Are Also Carrying
Out Movement Enbody-
ing Threat to Line
GERMANS REACH
OUT FOR DUNKIRK
Succeed In Initial Push In
Leveling Defenses by
Bonbardment
Associated Press Summary.


Today's Russian official statement
reveals clearly that the Russians be-
sides menacing Lemberg, also are
carrying out a movement embodying
q serious threat to the Austro- Ger
man front running through the Car
pathians to the Moldavian mountain
region.
The advance by the Russian armies
on the northumberland front
represents a drive into the Carpath-
ian foothills. Zolotvin Cor Zolotvina)
is % miles southwest of Stanislau
and the front of the advance men
toned, running northwest to Bogor-
dohan, is II miles in length. Zolotvin
is bare 20 miles from the crest of
the Carpathias along the GaliciSn-
Hungarian border. The available
passes, however, lie chiefly some dis
lance either west or southwest of this
line.
Two thousand prisoners were taken
by the Russians during the fighting
in Galicia yesterday.
Just as the Russians in the east
have torn big gap in the Austro-
German lines in Galicia, captured
Halicz and pressed on toward Lem
berg, the GaHeian capital, the Ger
mans on the western front. have
started a menacing offensive near the
Belgian coast.
This movement, while it may turn
out to be nothing but a local effort
or something with which the British
can cope with after the check of the
first thrust has been met, neverthe-
less indicates the possibility of a de-
ter1nined effort to bend back the
British flank on the Belgian coast
and reach the French city of Dunkirk
about II miles distant.
The Germans succeeded in their
initial push by leveling the defenses
through an intense bombardment for
"a hours and then attacking last eve
ming over the devastated ground. The
bridges across the User river were
destroyed by the heavy fire and the
sending up of reinforcements was
found impossible. Thus a penetration
600 yards deep on front of 1,400
yards was effected, Germans push
ing as far as the east bank Of the
User near the North sea.
The attack also extended far south,
opposite Lombaertzyde, but here.
after having temporarily driven n
the British advanced line, a counter
attack forced the Germans back to
their original positions.
There have been no serious at
tempts by the Germans to break
through the British front in Belgium
since their two campaigns for Calais
in the early months of the war. The
first was checked along the Belgian
front by the combined British and
Belgian forces, aided by the partici-
patton of British warships along the
coast. In the second battle of Ypres,
in the fall of 1914, the Germans sacri-
feed thousands of men in a terrific
drive, but failed to effect a penetra-
ton.
Reports from London today indi-
cate that the battle in Belgium still
is in progress. The sounds of heavy
firing, heard in England all day yes
terday, were again heard today be-
ginning at dawn.
In the sensational campaign which
the revolutionary army of Russia is
waging in Galicia the capture of
Halicz, important though it is, is only
an Incidental feature. Given secure
possession of it, the Russians have
the road to Lemberg we'll opened up
to them and a continuation of their
attacks on anything like the scale of
the last ten days seems likely to re-
suit in the fall of the Galician capital
at no distant date.
In capturing Halicz the Russians
took more than so guns and numer-
GUS prisoners The Russians, advice
to the Russian war office say, are
continuing their advance, pursuing
the retreating Austro- German forces.
On the French front in Northern
France, an attack was made by the
Germans in the Woevre district near
Flirey. They were elected from a por-
ton of tn trench in which the tenn
rorari1v gained a footing.