The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-10
Village After Village Is Taken and
Advance Threatens Keys To
. Lemberg Which Has Already
Been Twice Taken During War
SEVEN THOUSAND ARE
l. TAKEN AS PRISONERS
Berlin Admits Some Disasters In
GaIicia and Paris Tells Of Ter
. rible Slaughter To Huns In
Efforts To Retake Railroad

ASSOCIATED Press BY U. s. Naval Com
munication Service)
NJ EW YORK, July l0-For the
~ second time within ten
days the Russians in GaIicia have
thrust with the full weight Of their
reorganizd army against the Aus
tro-German line and for the sec
ond time they have sent the
forces Of the emperor and Kaiser
reeIing back in defeat.
Yesterday the SIavI drive
against the Teuton line in Galicia
was made al a psint some iiity
miles south Of the original blow
deliyered'by kerensky early in the
month. Along a front Of several
miles, in the neighborhood Of
Stanislau and Halicz, the Russian
forces advanced, taking village,
after village and reaching a point
where their advances seriously
threaten HaIicz, regarded by mill
tary men as the key TO the Cali
clan capital Of Lemberg, which
has already been twice captured
in the war. -
The toll of prisoners taken yes
terday amounts to well over
seven thousand, making a total
Cumber OF prisoners taken on this
section of the GaIician front since
July ] of $4,000. In addition, the
Teutons were forced to abandon
forty-eight field guns and lost, in
addition, a large number Of ma
chine guns, trench noftars and
munitions.
The Cossaoks, pursuing the
broken German regiments, ad-
VanCed well west OF StanisIau,
reaching the Luvka River.
The dispatches from Vienna admit
the reverses TO the Austro G Germans In
this Carpathian action, while Berlin
announces that the German reserves
thrown into the fight brought the Rus
sian advances TO a standstill.
Halicz,' "the KEY to Lemberg. y IL
at the junction of the Lomniea aud
Dnelster Rivers, and is an important
railroad Junction point about sixty
miles southeast of Lemberg.
Dispatches from Petrograd, an
nouncing the Galician victory, admit a
setback in Mesopotamia, whsre the
Russians have abandoned several vii.
lagos before the Turks. VT r..
This withdrawal took place west of
Sardasht, where the Turks, according
to the dispatches from ConstantinopIe,
beat the Russians ilecisively, repulsing
the Slavs with heavy losses =
On the west front number of at
tempts ON the part of the Germans to
gain ground were thrown back. A
drive by the Grown Prince, launched
once more against the bloody slopes of
the Chenlins des DANES, south of Laon,
where he has sacrificed many of his
regiments in previous disastrous ef.
forts. Yesterday his men were again
moved down by the French guuners
aud thrown back in defeat, while the
French, flushed with this victory, coun-
ter charged against the trenches cap
tured by the Germans the day pre-
viOus at FrOidmoht farm, clearing out
the Germans aud regaining all their
old positions, -
Another German effort, made in the
Carspach Wood, resulted also in de-
cisive repulse, while the Belgians, south
of Dixmude, also held back an attempt.
ed German advance, inaieting heavy
losses. -, r. :
Petrograd reported the return of
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