Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-29
RUSSIANS RETIRE
ON PART Of 'front.'
ADVANCE ON Other
Curious Spectacle of War Is
Presented in East
ern Arena.
FLIGHT is CONTINUED
BY TROOPS IN GALlCIA
On Moldavian Frontier Russians
and Roumanians Go For
ward VIGOROUSLY.
FAMOUS GENERALS RECALLED
Ruzsky and Gurko, Of Old RegfmN
in Petrograd. Are Summoned ~.~-
to the Capital.
FAMOUS GENERALS RECALLED
tBy Associated Pree.1

Still the center OF military interest.
h e Russian ron from Volhynia.
southwark to the bend In the line paaf
F~okshaniin, Roumania, presents the
curious spectacle Of Russians still, An
retreat on a wide front in Eastern
Galicta- and OF Russian and R~oumaniau
forces VIGOROUSLY advancing In an
important sector along the western
Moldavian frontier.
Petrograd has little to say OF sYHs
situation in Eastern GaIicia, but indie
Gates n considerable resistance by Tbs
Russian forces to Austro-German pres.
sure In the Carpathians, notwithstandS
ing which a Russian retirement wac
forced under a Teutonic attack. Ssf
Berlin Is more specific regarding th6
Galician campaign. It announces thS
Austro-German troops nearing It's
Pruth plateau below Kolomea, on TIE
road to Czernowitz, and further gairs
effected along the line both north add
south OF the Dniester.
On the Moldavtan front the Russians
and Roumanians are carrying out "a
effective operation which has bent 'baoE
the defensive line opposite KezdiSva.
sarhely. Pennsylvania. and farther
north. Important heights have been
occupied by the Roumanians near Boz
reszci. while In the vicinity of
Mountain the Russians are pushing
the Putna River and have Socl
cupied Boduple, on the left bank OF
he Putna. T
wv FAMOUS GENERALS
SUMMONED TO PETnOGRAn
Possible indications of further reors
g~anization of the Russian military MAJ
chine are seen in the summoningg oSStyyS
famous generals OF the old reRimcSTb
Petrograd. The men summoned aro
General Ruzsley. formerly commandSr-
in-chief OF the northern armies, ana
General Gurko. former commander GoS
the southwestern front.
The British front in Flanders II
again trembling with the shock Of
great artillery battle. Drum fra
the most intense character was opened,
this morning. Berlin reports. Several
times Of late, there have been tndfcan
tons that an attack was about to be
opened. apparently on the part Of the.
British. but none Of moment has sYst
developed. Recently the reports have
indicated the German artillery also very
active on this front. possibly In an.
attempt to check by counterfre any
movement the British might bes al.
tempting. -
After an interval OF more than year
ana n half. the have made. an
air raid on Paris. Accounts from tho
French capital do not indicate that tho
raid. which was carried out on Friday
night was one In force or that itfhaa
serious results.
The Berlin announcement state
that bombs were dropped on railway
stations and military establishmentsT
AERIAL AND ARTILLERY
ACTIVITY IN BRITISH ROM
With aerial and artillery activity On
the British front in France increasing
daily in volume. there are Indications
OF renewed fighting activity there, D
cially in Flanders. Both London and
Berlin comment upon the intensive
work of the big guns from the Rfysf
Lys TO the Belgian coast. s
British aviators again have been
most active, and. in addition to theif
other work, have accounted for thirty.
one German airplanes, fifteen Of which
crashed to the ground. The aeriai
fighting is described by London as hay.
Ing. been intense. but n markedly ,suce
cessful one for the British, who aidsd
the artillery. took n great number Sf
photographs and carried out bombing
raids.