The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-08-02
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CONTINUE RETREAT
Germans Drive Russians Back
., in GaIicia.
TWO MORE TOWNS CAPTURED
Dispatch From Seventh Army Says
Situation is More HopefuI-De-
serters Are Shot to Death
Kaiser Visits Riga Front.


Copenhagen, Aug. IA dispatch
from Berlin says Emperor William left
Mitau, % miles southwest of Riga,
Russia, and went down the river to
the Riga front where he complimented
the troops.
London, Aug. LA dispatch to the
Post from Petrograd, referring to the
Russian retreat in Galicla, says it is
conservatively estimated that more
than 100000 Russian troops are
steadily marching rearward. These
constitute the eleventh and seventh
armies, with their reserves.
The eighth army, which Is largely
cavalry and not included in the fore
going figurea also is retreating, and
its position, says the correspondent, Is
extremely critical. The Germans are
straining every effort to capture while
following up the eleventh and seventh
armies, and it looks as If the eighth
army might be caught in bag.
A dispatch to the Times from the
headquarters of the Russian seventh
Irmy says the situation is more hope
full. Panics among the retreators are
suppressed ruthlessly. Three divisions
Of cavalry have taken positions across
the whole front of retreat.
Deserters Quickly Shot.
Deserters are shot and attempts to
spread panic are suppressed by prompt
executions. Deserters, spies and agi-
tators who enjoyed complete immunity
under the committee system lie dead
on the highways. A paper pinned on
the corpses reads: Here lies trail
tor TO his country"
Red badges and other symbols which
accompanied the decentralization have
almost disappeared.
Germans Push Back Russia.
Berlin, Ahg. Russian forces
which made stand in western Kuko-
wilma, says the official statement is
sued by the German general staff, were
forced to evacuate their Chermosh line
and to retire to the eastward.
Capture TWO More Towns.
The German announcement says that
in the direction of C2ernowitz, the
capital of Bullowina, the Ausro-G Ter
man forces have captured Warenccan-
ka aud Sniatyn. In the wooded Car
pathian area the Teutons forced the
Russians to abandon their positions in
the Meste-C anaste sector.
Cross the Zbrocz River.
The Russian frontier river of ZbrOcz
has been crossed by the AustrO-Ger-
man troops at many points along 80
mile front, in spite Of bitter Russian
resistance, the German report says.
Turkish troops captured the Russian
positions near Niwra on the River
ZbrOcz.
In the area of the Bereczker noun
tain one of the German regiments was
pressed back to the south of CaSinului.
Germans Checked at zbrscz.
PetrOgrad, Aug. North of HuSia-
tyn, on the Russo alician frontier, the
Russians restored their position on the
east bank of the River ZbrOcz, says the
official statement issued by the Rus
sian war department. AustrO-Germ
efforts to force passage across the
Zbrocz in the region of Pukliany and
Podlipie were frustrated.
The Teuton forces, the statement
says, pressed back the Russians in the
region of DorOChouc, Zastavna, liver
ehczanka and OrOchepy. South Of the
KimpOlung road, on the ROumanian
front, the AustrO- German forces also
pressed back the Russian lines.
Zaleszik has been evacuated by the
Russians under heavy pressure.
On the Roumanian front fortified po-
sitiOns on the right bank of the River
Putnd, northwest of Soveia, were cap
tured by the ROumanians.
korniIoff Reorganizina His Armies.
Copenhagen, Aug. 1.-The Berlin
Tageblatt's correspondent at Austrian
army headquarters gives the number
of cannon captured by the Germans in
the Russian retreat as 20, those taken
by the Austrians numbering nearly
200. General Korniloff, according to
the correspondent, apparently is at
tempting to organize new resistance
along the rocky Galician frontier.