The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-27
IMPROVEMENTS
REPORTED ALONG
RUSSIAN LINES.
Drastic Measures Taken to En-
force Dicipline Among
Troops by Provisional
Government
DISTURBANCES PUT DOWN
WITH IRON HAND
Entente. Determined to Force
Central Powers to Peacec
on Allies Terms
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

6T Ho0OCIAl Gu PH6SS
Despite all unfavorable news that
continues to come from the Russian
war theatre, there are occasional
signs of improvement in the situa-
ton. Last evening, Petrograd news.
papers, for instance, found cause to
report a better situation at the front,
probably as result of the drastic
measures to restore discipline, which
the government has authorized in the
reestablishment of field court mar
tials and the reimposition of the
death penalty.
Prove Effective
Similar stringent measures in Pet
rograd also appear to have proven
effective In dealing with disordely
elements Reports of renewed fight
ing in the capital are accompanied by
the statement that government troops
stepped into the situation with a
salutary effect, suppressing the riot
ing.
The Russian official announcement
said the Rumanians have advanced
toward the upper reaches OF the
Suchitza river, and are consolidating
their. gains. The Rumanians took
many prisoners and captured six guns.
impIored lnfantrymen
Accounts of the battles in Galicia,
which have reached here say the cav
elrymen fought like heroes. Co.'S
sacks operating with British and Rus
sian motor cars defended the Serreth
line, as long as the last hope remain
ed. 1t is reported that artillerymcn
on their knees implored the infantry
to save their guns, but that the In
fantry did not heed them. .". .@'.
General Korniloff's orders to shoot
traitors and marauders are being car
ried out. The commander of a gren-i
adler division has been removed for
refusing to fire on deserters.
SignaIed to Germans
The fifth battalion fought bravely.
It kept off three German regiments,
with it's machine guns and made sew
eral bayonet attacks afoot. In one
attack the men rode their bicycles.
Some sections of the battahons, lost
80 per cent of their officers. *
A member of the Duma, who had
returned from the Dvinsk front, states
that after Russion crack battall1ons
had captured important German posi-
tions, it was discovered in several In;
stances that signalling to the Ger
mans was going on from the Russion
real. Etelgian mechanical men, and
iex pcrts in Petrograd, many Of whom
We're wounded on the Ypres are form
ing battalion Of death" to give
an example of military valor on the
Russian front.
Meanwhile, the Entente front else
where is giving renewed evidence of
it's solidity not only in the military.
but in the political way. The Allied
conference At Paris. which was be-
lieved to have been chiefly devoted to
Balkan affairs, adjourned its session.
with a renewed declaration of united
purpose on the part of the Entente
powers not to lay down their arms
until the central powers were put IN
a position where they would not find
it possible to assume policy OF GRIM
inal aggression.
The Austro7 7GGrman thrust into the
Russian line in eastern
Galicia has widened in effect, extend
ing now southeastward toward the
BukOwina border, and resulted In the
CAPTURE of Kolomea. Berlin mentions
the AustrO- German advance, both
north and south as rapid, and this it
appears to be, although there has
been somewhat of a slackening In
the pace of the Russian retreat move
ment