Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-30
BATTLE ROAR IN
FRANCE RISES TO
INTENSIVE PITCH
Renewed Activity Of Airmen
and Artillery From River Lys
to Belgian Coast Por-
tends Big Events.
BULLETIN.

Berlin, July 2o-Via London-Rus-
sian troops retreating on the eastern
Galician front have retired behind the
Russian border at Husiatyn, the Ger
man general staff announced offic'
tally today. Husiatyn is seventy miles
due east of Halicz.-~4
Further south the Russians made
a stand between the Dniester and
Pruth rivers, but powerful German
attack broke their resistance and the
Russians now are being pursued along
both banks of the Dniester.
Kuty, in the Carpathians, has been
captured by the Teutons.
In Roumania the Germans COM
pleted the retrograde movement
which they began Friday on the up
per Putna river.
(By Associated Press)
With aerial and artillery activity on
the British front in France increasing
daily in volume there are indications
of renewed fighting activity there,
especially in Flanders. Both London
and Berlin comment upon the inten-
sive work of the big guns from the
River. Lys to the Belgian coast.
British aviators again have been
most active and in addition to their
other work. have accounted for thirty
one German airplanes, fifteen of which
crashed to the ground. The aerial
fighting is described by London as
having been intense, but markedly
successful one for the British, who
aided the artillery, took great num-
Der of photographs and carried out
bombing raids. s a
Little Change in Galicia.
Still the center of military interest
the Russian front from Volhynia
southwark to the bend in the line near
Fokshani in Roumania presents the
curious spectacle of the Russians still
in retreat on wide front in eastern
Galicia and of Russian and Rouman-
ian forces victoriously advancing in
an important sector along the wes-
tern Moldavain frontier.
Petrograd has little to say of the
situation in eastern Galicia, but indi-
Gates a considerable resistance by
the Russian forces in the Carpathians,
Notwithstanding which Russian re-
tirement was forced under a Teuton-
ic attack. .s
Berlin Announces Gains.
Berlin announces troops nearing
the Pruth plateau below Kolomea, on
the road to- Czernowitz and further
gains effected both north and south
of the Dniester.
On the Moldavian front the Rus
slams and Roumanians are carrying
out an effective operation which has
bent back the defensive line opposite
Kezdi-Vasarhely. Pennsylvania, and
further north.
Important heights have been oc-
cupied by the Roumanians near Bere-
scizi, while in the vicinity of Kalakul
mountain, the Russians are pushing
toward the Putna river and have oc-
cupied Boduple, on the left bank of
the Putna. ...
Generals Are Summoned
Possible indications of further re-
organization of the Russian military
machine are seen in the summoning
of two famous generals of the old
regime to Petrograd. The men sum-
moned are General Ruzsky, formerly
commander-in-chief of the northern
armies and General Gurko formerly
commander of the southwestern
front. tF :
Air Raid on Paris.
After an interval of more than a
year and a half the Germans have
made an air raid on Paris. Accounts
from the French capital do not indi-
cate the raid, which was carried out
Friday night, was one in force or that
it had serious results.
Drive From Galicia Swift.
Berlin (Via London), July 2o.-East
of Buczacz the Russians are rapidly
being driven out of Galicia and the
supplementary official statement from
the war Office says that German
troops are approaching Zbrya on the
Russo-Galicia front, about ten miles
south of Husiatyn.