Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-11
1000 Prisoners and Thirty
Guns Seized When SIavs
Take HaIicz.
ADVANCE WESTWARD
TO LOMNICA'S BANKS
Also Gain on Bogoordchan-Zolotvin
Front-Austro- German Armies
Separated.

PETROGRAD, July II, British
Admiralty per Wireless Press
The Russians have reached the
Posiecz- Lesiuvka Kosnacz line.
In the fighting between Sunday
and Tuesday in the direction of
Dolina the Russians took more
than 10000 prisoners and eighty
guns.
PETROGRAD, July 11.-According to
telegram received from the general
staff the pursuit of the enemy in Galicia
continues. The capture Of Halicz,
strategic key to Lemberg, is confirmed.
In addition to capturing Halicz the
Russians took 1000 prisoners and thirty
guns. They also advanced westward to
the left bank Of the Lomnica river and
pressed forward on the Bogorodchan-
Zolotvin front. These announcements
were made by the war office today
Russ Breaking Enemy Front.
Gen. Korniloffs operations in Galicia,
along a front of twenty miles. have
broken the Austro-German front be-
tween Halicz and the Carpathians. and
already the Russian cavalry has press
ed forward for a distance of sixteen
miles.
From July to 8. inclusive. Gen.
Korniloff took $4,000 prisoners and
ffty-fve guns. Of which twelve were
heavy pieces.
Gen. Korniloffs cavalry and cossacks
are pursuing Gen. Kirbach's retiring
"rrny south Of Halicz. and have forced
the River Lukovitza. which parallels
the River Luvka- The western bank of
the Luvka dominates the wooded east
ern bank, but it is considered unlikely
that the demoralized Austrian army
will be able to concentrate sufficient
the river and continuation Of the ad-
vance in the direction Of Dolina, thirty
hve miles west Of Stanislau. The CO.
operation of the seventh and eleventh
army south of that town has been like
clockwork.
Teuton Armies Separated.
The success Of the eighth army, the
military critic of the Reich points out
separates the German army of Gen.
Won Bothmer from the third Austrian
army under Gen. Kirbach, and antici-
pates the evacuation of Halicz, which is
not strictly a fortress. but a strong
bridgehead protecting the positions Of
Gen. Won Bothmer's army from the east
and southeast.
The powerful Russian offensive is
having the effect of stimulating martial
spirit throughout the country. The war
Office is receiving daily scores of tele-
grams from various parts of Russia,
Siberia and the Caucasus Of the forma- :
tion OF storm battalions" and from
garrisons asking to be sent to the
front.
Women Desire to Enlist.
An organization has been formed un-
der the name Of the General Russian
Union for the Formation Of Voluntary
Army" Already there are sixty
bronches actively engaged in recruit
ing. This organization Is deluged with
demands from women who desire to
enlist. tits proposed to concentrate all
woman applicants at some point out
side Petrograd for drilling
In the army itself the storm battalion
movement is growing. One such has
asked for permission to assume the
name "Kerensky battalion" A stafY
telegram reports that seventy men
from the Odessa officers school have
gone to the front as volunteers. An
Orenburg dispatch describes the oya-
ton given to company organized by
delegates from the Black sea fleet on
the occasion of its leaving for the