The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-04

southeast and southwest
London, July 3 Seventeen thou !
Ind Teutons are tonight gazing de-
|ctedly out into the yastness OF the /
|assian steppes. They are On the way
p Russian prison camps, Behind
hem hoo.ns the thunder 81 Rru@i
Yrs guns The Russians are still al
kncins More TeutonE, hundreds OF
hem, are being hustled on trans 10
bin the invoiunta~y voyage into the
3terior OF new Russia. lighting Rus
h.
Ia week ago these same Teutons
Itre holding daily coafabs in mo
ans land with their Russian com
Sdes' taking peace and exchanging
lap, sausage and postal cards
Rnsstn n< on Aggressive.
Aiong the one hundred. mile front
cm the Stockhod - the nneister
Muscovitea are continuing on The
kgressive. Their onslauGhts IN
brthern Gaiitia toward L~rherg
IRE even fercer tonight than they
IRE Sunday, during the frst phase
the big drive. The mere memory
four months OF virtual armistice
rms like a mockerF.
But even a, this early, stage II can
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81 both sides profT,ed no little from
long period OF determination
rhree weeks ago, II developed from
int dispatches tho Germans learned
ii July was set for the new drive
brewer they learned that Rrzezauy
big strategtcal key forty-six miles
in Lemherg. wouid be the imrns-
lie objective The Bavarian Prince
ppold concentrated the bulk OF hts
erves there As result the drive
hinat Brzexany has ahated consid-
Ibly. as 10 indirectly admitted by
kroGrad. while Berlin fatty declares
failure
Turn "SkoCias" Against Enemy.
On the other hand it must have
a In those fraternizing DAYS that
Russians learned all about the
ricate system OF handling the big
IoAaA" Many OF the captured
-. says the Russian war once
tement. were turned against the
my.
me siackening OF Russian progress
hinst Erzezany from the south and
u Was more than offset by smash
Roadway registered by Brusilofr $
go further north against the other
railway point, Zlooxow (Zlochoff)
lch 10 only thirty seven miles al
St due west Of LAmberx. Here they
tuFOd the village of ZhoroH. In
~ weeks Of vain battling for this
40, which 10 really Z miniature
6eas. the Russians lost more than
100 men last fall in tho closing
- Of Brueiiofrs drive. They never
ned IN inch then. Now they have
Ain twenty-four hours not only
bpt into and through II, but far
the west and southwest. taking
midably strong heights by storm
OF Strategic importance.
Boron Is of great strategic Inn
lance. It lies forty-nine miles
theast Of Lemberg and about one
one-half miles from the rail lines
i runs from Tarnopol to the Ga
IA cxpttzf- 4 1fttle more than sew
miles to the south lies Konichi. the
town to fall to the new Russian
nsive Sunday.
NO other villages OF less impor
IS, Presovice and Korhiduv. wer,
Rured on the second day Of tht
y. Prisoners and booty taker
arday are thus enumerated:
500 prisoners.
4 guns.
machine guns.
overal bombthrowers.
Firms In the Van.
monr the heroes of the east Ga
81 battle are the Firms, which
Y an extra touch of bitterness t.
German disappointment. Fol-
Finland the Teutons had count
most strongly as starting tn
"a for movement for dissolu
Of Russia into many separate
republics. The fourth Finnish
MON gave crushing answer to thi
Yy The Firms alone took l,sSl
bners. They were IN the Zhorof
u.
orensky. who IL as shrewd poll
~ - he IL far-seeing statesman
looks no opportunity to max
tion Of these Incidents in his bull
i.
AZ young lawyer Is today the lido
kussta For that he has accom-
he'd he looms In almost Napoleon
f1atnass far beyond the borders o.
3AAA. Ono Of the mont striking
never more apparent than II
1ADt two days. 10 his fearless ad
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