New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
Slavic Forces, However,
Continue to Retreat on
Eastern Front
Rumanians Still
Hammer Austrians
Petrograd Reports Show
That Retreat Has Not De-
veloped Into a Rout
DAYS DEVELOPMENTS

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Russian Withdrawal keeps up, apparently
IN better order and with SITTER resistance at
two piyots of retreat. Germans now past
Horodenka front, twenty-five miles north
Yves, Of Czernowitz and gaining ground east
Of Kirlibaba and southeast OF arnoopol.
Russian, DESTROYING roads and railroads.
Russo-Rumanisn advance on lran'yl-
yanian border continues as defeated Aus
,rian, retreat. Additional batteries and
prisoners taken.
Crown Prince suffers another costly failure
on 6ye-mile front along Chemin-des-Dames.
Berlin says French thrusts to regain lost
ground were repulsed.
Berlin announces artillery battle in Elan
der, ha, increased to very intense drum
Ere" Scouting raids along front.
London, July 2S.-At all the danger
points along the line of the Russian
retirement in Galicia and Bukowina
the Slavic resistance is increasing. But
the retrograde movement from the
Dniester we'll into the Carpathian
Mountains continues, with the German
advance now developing as far east as
Horodenka, which is only twenty-five
miles northwest Of Czernowitz, capital
of the Austrian crown land. The Rus
sian commanders may have elected to
stand on q line running roughly from
northeast of Tarnopol to Kimpolung,
lust north OF the Moldavian border but
tho German pressure may be great
enough to force the evacuation of
every yard of Austrian territory and
cause a retreat into Bessarabia.
The Russo-Rumanian counter Of
fensiye further south Is developing
more Importance and the advancing
armies there are now well into Tran
sylvania, with the enemy constantly
retiring and losing additional prison
ers and batteries. 1t can have little
effect, however, on the military ca
tastrophe in the north and at best will
serve only to straighten the Russian
line somewhat and divert some of the
greatly nesded enemy divisions to the
contested area.
German Momentum Checked
Around the two pivots of the Rus
sian withdrawal the defending troops
are fighting more vigorously, and
though in both directions they were
forced back slightly, the enemy's mo-
mentum has been checked. Around
Tarnopol, on the north, Berlin asserts
that German divisions pressed for
ward south and southeast of the city,
but the gains seem to have been in
significant. Toward Kirlibaba, on the
south, Petrograd admits that the
enemy attacked in the region Of Bot
motchu and pressed forward east of
Kirlibaba after stubborn combats.
On the wide swing between these
two sectors the withdrawal seems To
be taking It's predestined course to Q
new and straighter line. Over the
whole distance Petrograd reports tha'
nothing of importance has occurred
which indicates that the retiremen
has nowhere degenerated into panic o
fight. And Berlin announces that tn
Russians are destroying the roads an
railroads throughout the evacuate
territory, which they would not hav
time to do if they were too closel
pressed. No major engagements ar
mentioned by either capital anywher
on this front.
In Transylvania the Russo-Rumania
forces are driving forward from Mo-
davia at two points. In the directio
of KedZi-Vasarhely, the most impor
tant town on this front, they hav
forced the enemy from two series 0
dominating heights and captured a
entire battery Of his guns.
Berlin Admits a Withdrawal
Further south in the region Of Kala
kul they have moved forward towar
the upper Putna and have stormed tn
village Of Boduple, on the left bank o
that stream. Berlin confesses that tn
Austrians have withdrawn into tn
Bereczker Mountains before "superio
pressure" II the successful Rumania
movement continues, it will soon de
velop into a direct menace against tn
Austrian city of Kronstadt.
On the Russian front from the Ga
lician border northward there has bee
much artillery practice and man
scouting operations as far as the Bal
tic Sea, indicating, perhaps, fres