Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-31
TIDE OF RETREAT
IN EAST 'GAL|C|A
TURNING AT LAST
Loyal Russian Troops Halt
and Face Their
Pursuers. @
OFFERING RESISTANCE
WITH DEPLETED RANKS
Their Stands Not Yet Successful,
but They Show Patri-
otic Spirit. NJ
GERMAN SPIES ARE ACTIVE
Reported That Fifty, in Russian Un2.
forms, Are Captured
and Shot.
GERMAN SPIES ARE ACTIVE
Reported That Fifty, in Russian Un2.
forms, Are Captured
and Shot.
tBy Associated P.ess.1

Apparently the ,urn in the tide OF
retreat by the Russians In East Galicia
Is beginning. On several sectors the
loyal troops have halted. and now ara
facing the Austro-German forces. and
offering resistance as best they can
with their badly depleted ranks.
Although the stands they have made
have as yet been unsuccessful in hold
ing back to any great extent the nu-
merically superior Austro-German
armies, they serve to show that the
spirit Of loyalty is still alive in many
Of the men of General Korniloff's con-
tingents and that it is not their pur-
pose to surrender further terrain with
out contest tEi
One OF the main attempts OF the
Russians to hold back the enemy has
been on the heights east OF the River
zbrocz. which flows along the border
between Galicia and Russia. but, de.A
spite the resistance offered. they have
been compelled by overwhelming num-
bers to cede ground to the Austro-
German troops, who crossed the stream
TEUToNS CROSS FRONTIER
AND INVADE BUkOwIHA
Galician frontier, and now are invad-
ing Bukowina by way of the Suchawa
valley. their immediate objective be.
ing the town of Seletyn, while the
force that recently was successful In
its operations against the Russians in
the region Of kirlibaba has reached the
territory lying to the. east OF tho upper
Moldavia Valley. 4St. 9s "a a. 3 - -. t,isS
Observation-Disclosures the ctiyity, OF Gsrsa
man spies, who: ara trying to create
|disaffection In the. Roumanian army.
the Roumanian armies and Russians
fighting near the northwestern border
OF Roumania continue to press for.
ward In the Casin and Putna valleys,
having captured six additional villages,
and added materially to the number
OF men made prisoner and guns cap
tured. Fifty OF the German spies dis
guised as Russian soldiers. are report.
ed to have been caught and shot f
There has been a considerable fall
Ing of In tho intensity of tho British
artillery fire on the Flanders front, due,
according to Berlin, to "the paralyzinEs
influence OF our offensive activity"lsss
Here the Germans are said to have
concentrated the greatest number, OF
guns that they ever have massed son
any one sector and are using them
TO their full capacity. evidently inaan
endeavor to ward off any contemplat.
ed infantry attack by Field Marshal
Haig's forces.
ARTILLERY DUEL STILL
EXTREMELY VIOLENT
1t cannot be said. however. even with
the diminution in the intensity OF the
British fire. that the artillery duel
has fallen much below the stage OF
extreme violence. for. all along the
front. from the coastal region south
ward. the big guns continue to roar
and hurl tons upon tons of steelltn
reciprocal bombardments iAs
Aside from the eastern front no mill.
tary operations of Importance are I'm
progress. except on the line where the
French are facing the Germans In the
Aisne region OF France. The army OF
the crown prince has made several
more Intellectual attempts to surprise
General Petain's forces here, while Ber-
lin reports the repulse OF French So
tacks, several times repeated, ons ~
line from Cerny to Winterberg.i. g3
south of Allies. A-s.
The old British cruiser Aris e. ~
vessel nearly twenty years .a3
been torpedoed and sunk. E.,s
eight members OF her crew<w e