The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-24
Tarnoplo. Taken by Russians
in 1914, Recaptured by 7 eu-
tons; Stanislau and Halicz
Encircled
MILITARY UNITS IN
COMPLETE STATE OF
DISCRIMINATION
Crown Prince Launches Ire
mendous But Unsuccessful
Attacks Against French on
Aisne. Using Heavy Force

London, July s3-Tarnopol. the
first big city in Eastern Galicia that
fell to the Russians In their invasion
of the Austrian crownland in 1914.
has been recaptured by the Teuton
forces in their headlong rush that
followed the break through" of the
Russian front
Admissions of the gravest character
continue to mark the Russian ohicial
accounts Today the Petrograd war
office. after reporting that the RUS
slams broke through the Teuton lines
north of the Pinsk marshes on a
front of two miles. frankly adds that
the moral weakness and instability OF
certain Russian detachments leopard
ICED this unexpected success in which
more than 1000 Teutons were taken
prisoner. This indicates that the dis
solution that brought about the dis
aster in the south has spread to the
north.
! The full extent OF the Gaifcian re-
verse, now officially limited at as a
"debacle," cannot yet be estimated, A
week ago the Russians were less than
forty miles from Lenberg Today.
fleeing westward from Tarnopol, they
are some seventy Ave miles from the
Galician capital
Some twenty miles more OF this
headlong retreat and the Galician
border is reached. To clear the crown
land of the Russians, and to follow
this up by driving the Muscovites GU.
of the Bukowina in the south and
from Volhynia in the north, lie tho
strategical aim of the Teuton com.
mander dictated by the break.
through"
KornaiIor's Army Fleeing.
To the southeast of LemberR,
Stanslau and Halicz already are vir-
tually surrounded by the Teutons a.
the Russian front is crumbling Be-
low Stanislau. General Korniloff's
army, outflanked is fleeing into the
Ca-pathian hills and there aces
fate similar to that which overcame
the Serhians In 1915 and the Ru.
manians last year--system attic cap
ture or humiliation. Altogather. 275
miles Of the Russian front. from tho
Pinsk marshes down to the FukowIna
threatens to cave in.
"Nost military units saws an Of.
fetal telegram from the southwestern
front to the authorities at Petroyrad.
| ARE in a state of conpieta disotEan-
ization. The spirit for the offensive
has utterly disappeared"
A picture more tragic than any.
thing imagined since Napoleon's re-
treat A~om Mo,cor is then embodied
/ by the telegram.
1t tells how officers orders and en-
treaties from loyal comrades are met
by threats and shots; how whole de-
tachments suddenly start on wild
flight without even a sign of an enemw
att eck: how the troops when ordered
| t. hasten to the relief of hart-p-ess-
ed comrades, hold confahs in ths
trenches, celebrating for hours
whether the order should be obeyed:
how entire units " healthy ana ro-
! bust ian. Y ko siayc lost a | share
and feel they can act altogether with
/ impualty." ore pa:u ing to the -%sr.
! CROWN PRINCE MAKES
| GREAT ATTACK ON AISTU
London. July Predetermined to
regain at all costs the heights north
of the Aisne which might serve ~ an
allied jumping board" in drive next