New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Kerensky Accepts
Dictator's Powers
To Save Russia
Rear Guard Fights
Back as Russian
Retreat Continues
South of Dniester Slav Force.
Give Battle-Bukowina
Practically Cleared

LONDON, Aug. 5.-North Of the
Dniester River and along the Russian
frontier the retreat of the Slavic armies
has ceased, at least for the time being,
and Berlin reports violent artillery
fighting in the region of Brody, the
one Galicisn city which the Russians
still hold, and along the Zbrocz River,
which forms the border between Russia
and Galicia.
II is too early to say whether this
unexpected activity of the big guns
foretells an effort by Korniloff to smash
in the great Teuton salient from the
northeast or whether it heralds the
beginning Of German attempt to clear
out the narrow strip of Galician terri
tory the Russians still occupy and be-
gin an invasion of White Russia beyond
the Zbrocz. Petrograd is silent on the
duel around Brody, but mentions leu
ton pressure in Volhynia, TO the north.
South of the Dniester and all the way
through Bukowina the withdrawal OF
the seventh Russian army continues,
with small rear guard successes here
and there which do not offset the ex-
tensive evacuation of territory. Inc
Germans have crossed the Bessarablan
border northeast of Czernowitz and are
practically at the frontier OF Moldavla,
as far south as Sereth. distance OF
about twenty-five miles. The Russians
now hold only @ small triangle Oh
Bukowina, in the southwestern corner
of the Crownland.
East of CZernowitz, near the border
town of Baian, the retreating Russians
suddenly turned on their Teuton pur-
suers, swept back through Doljck WOOD
and captured 10 officers, 500 men and
machine guns. Near Kovel, too, in
Volhynia, the Russian artillery stopped
short an attack of seven Austrian COM
NAMES. But for the most part the ex-
ploits of the Russians, as detailed py
! Petrograd, are guerilla adventures
with little bearing on the general situa-
ton. On the Stokhod River, not far
| from Kovel, scouting expedition is
recorded in which the Russians waded
neck deep through branch of tne
river. cut the enemy,s wire, and either
bayoneted or made prisoner an entire
| Austrian outpost. On the Zbrocz seven
Russians surprised thirty OF the enemy
and killed most of them. In the SOUTH
ern Carpathians a hundred Russian
scouts attacked a hostile position and
bayoneted several score Of the enemy
General Retreat Unchecked
Nevertheless the retreat in Bukowlna
Ia unchecked. East of Ktmpolung,
which was defended by disaffected
troops, the Russians have retired
again. West Of the Sereth River the
Austro- Germans occupied Neufratautz,
and in the corner of the three-iand
region have taken Raraucze and nall
of Baian. At the rate the Teutons are
advancing on this front 1t hardly
seems possible that the Russians can
continue in Bukowina more than a
| few days at the most. Though the
morale Of the Seventh Army is better
than that Of the forces on the north;
! they are relinquishing every natural
defensive line on which they might be
expected to stand.
on the Transylvanian border, further
south, the Rumanians are still attack.
! ing Casinuli, which is in state Oh
seige. Thus far the Teutons have man.
aged to hold the town.
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