The sun., 1917-07-02
BIG GUNS BLAST PATH
Offensive May Mean Re-
newal of Drive for Lem
berg and KOvel.
ONLY NEWS FROM BERLIN
Proof Of MuscOvite Loyalty to
Cause of Allies Shown in
TeutOn Report.

LONDON, July Free Russia's army
is proving its loyalty to the cause of the
Allies in the first big attack since the
revolution. The Russians began the at
tack yesterday on an 1Sla mile front
in Galicia. The German War ONCE
says the advancing infantry was re-
pulsed everywhere with heavy losses.
but to-day the Russians returned un-
daunted to the charge and fierce fighting
Is raging on a wide front
The Russian attack shows signs OF
spreading north and south until the
whole battle front Of 100 miles In Cali
ella and Volhynia Is engaged. The
attack that began yesterday is believed
to be the opening OF the eagerly awaited
Russian offensive, the renewed drive for
Lemberg and Kovel from the positions
gained in Gen. Brusloffs victorious
offensive OF 1915.
Thus far the only news that this assault
has even begun comes from Berlin. The
official statements OF the German War
Office say the Russian attack, briefly
announced last night was delivered
from the upper Stripa to the Narayuvka,
on the front southeast of Lemberg. THE
storming troops, who suffered heavy
losses, we're compelled everywhere to re-
tire by our defensive fire." says Berlin.
Return to Attack.
But after this reported repulse the
German War Office announces tonight
in it's supplementary report that far
from being crushed or dispirited the
Russian soldiers came again grimly to
the attack on the German trenches, at
tacking on practically the same front.
This is the surest indication that the
Russian army is not disorganized, as the
Germans had hoped. but is as deter
mined and fearless as ever.
At the same time this great battle was
| raging, to the north and south the Rus
| sian artillery was pouring shells into the
German positions all the way to the mic
die Stokhod. beyond Kovel. and south as
far as Stanislau In Galicia, forty miles
south Of the battle front. There have
been no attacks on this front-up to the
present" says the German statement.
The Russian attack OF yesterday af-
| ternoon had been prepared by artillery
fire that continued with greater or less
| intensity for upward OF a week, and had
been mentioned several times in the Ger
man official statements. but only yester-
| cay by Petrograd. All through the
morning the Russian guns were concen-
trated with especial fury, and then the
| infantry advanced.
German People Fooled.
characteristic announcement. in which
Won Hindenburg and Won Ludendorff at
| tempt to delude the Russian revolution-
| lists and also the German people into the
belief that the Russian soldiers are be-
ing sent to the slaughter at the COM
mand OF the Allies. This is particularly
fragrant in the statement that the En-
tente leaders" drove the Russians into-a
separate night attack without artillery
| vh af ffa aIr 10
nized here as part OF the German cam
paign to turn Russia from the Allies
Concerning to-days attack. which
showed that the Russians would not
weaken in the fight, Berlin vouchsafes
little information and says nothing as to
whether the Russians are succeeding.
The bulletin tonight says only this:
"In the east the attacks of the Rus
slams near Koniuchy and between the
Zlota Lipa and the Narayuvka occa-
stoned new engagements
The German Statement.
The German day statement follows:
The Russian Government having
been constrained to yield TO the pres
sure of the leading Entente Powers
part OF the army was induced TO at
tack. After a destructive fire lasting
all day against our positions on the
upper Stripa as far as the Nara
yuvka River there followed in the
afternoon powerful attacks by the
Russian infantry on a front of about
thirty kilometers (1Sh miles). The
storming troops, who suffered heavy
losses, we're compelled everywhere to
retire by our defensive fire.
Nocturnal attacks into which the
Russians also were driven without
artillery preparation by the Entente
leaders. were unsuccessful and broke
down on both sides OF BrzeZany and
: near ZwyZyn. The artillery duel ex-
tended northward as far as the mid
die Stokhod and south as far as
Stanislau. There have been no attacks
on this front up to the present Be-
tween the Carpathians and the Black
Sea no important events have oc-
Cured.
e vienna Reports Attacks.
= The Austrian official statement says
In eastern Galicia with the army
group OF Gen. Won Boehm- Ermolli the
defensive is in full progress. After
: several days of violent fire from the
q heaviest guns the enemy in the after
n noon commenced an infantry attack
r south and southeast of BrZeZany and
o near Koniuchy, They were evry-
where repulsed. Wherever portions OF
the enemy infantry were able TO move
forward they succumbed before oui
barrage fire.
v very strong attack. started late
in the afternoon west OF Zalocz, brok,
down under our artillery fire. Toward
u midnight the enemy, without artillery
preparation, endeavored to advanc,
south of BrzeZany. He was repulsed
in During the night the artillery fire de
q clined, but It revived the next morn
~ ing.