Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-24

dHu now the IusSldl anu "i7N .4'N
Austrian armies would fight remain
ed questions whose solution l awaited
with the keenest suspense.
The Russian attack in East Galicia
was made In close formation With a
vast expenditure Of munitions. 1t sue
ceeded against Austrian troops, but
not against German and Turkish. on
July ] strong Russian forces broke
through the Austro- Hungarian line
between Zborow and Brshneshany Ga
| front of about 20 miles in the north
east corner of Galicia). Austrian
| troops were deserving to the enemy
! in large numbers. on July z the
COMMANDMENTS chief had to throw in
substantial reserves to ease the pres
sure. Further Russian attacks col
. lapsed
The offensive against the southern
army began on July 4. The fierce
struggle lasted for several days and
ended with complete success for the
defense made by General Count Won
Bothmer's army, which consisted al
most exclusively of German troops.
| Germans Join i'm "a Rout.
| South of the Dniester the Russian
attack against the Austrian ard army
on July q and Z was completely sue
| cessful. The Austrian troops gave
way; a German division which had
! but recently arrived tried to stem the
! retreat, but was carried along by 1T.
| The Russians pressed forward to the
! LomnitZa and occupied kaluSch can
advance of about Is miles,,
| The position was critical for the
commander -chief. He had collect
! ed his reserves for the intended coun-
! ter-attack between Zborow and the
| Sereth, in the direction of Tarnopol
and the western divisions were being
moved to this area.
| Just as in the spring the Archduke
Karls front had to be strengthened
4 before we could march on Rumania,
| so now the commander-in-c chief had
J to stiffen the Austrian troops and es-
pecially the 3rd army, before he could
carry out his preparations for the
counter-attack. He was the more to
! be congratulated in as much as in
spite of the retreat south of the Dnies-
| ter and the violent attacks which now
began in the north, he made his push
north of Zborow and carried through
| the operation without a hitch.
His Own Aide Saves Army.
At Kalusch luck favored us The
! Russian army had already paid too
dearly for its early keenness to at
tack and had made no further prog
/ ress on the LomnitZa. The firse Ger
man troops to arrive were consequent
ly able, thanks in part to the ener-
getic intervention of Major Won dem
Busehe of my staff, to hold the posi-
ton. On July Is they succeeded in
gaining ground, and the crisis was
overcome.
The most violent of the attacks on
the northern front was the one that
took place on July 81. south of Smor-
gon, near Krewo; here the Russians
broke through division of the Land
wehr occupying very wide front
though it defended itself with extra
4, ordinary courage.
For few days things looked ex-
: tremely serious, until our reserves
. and artillery fire restored the situa-
ton The Russians evacuated our
/ trenches: they were no longer what
they had been.
Meanwhile the counter-attack forces
= had finished their march up between
Zborow and the Sereth. Unfortunate
: ly the attack had to be postponed
t two or three days. until July 10. or
] account of extremely bad weather
2 This was the day on which the peacI
: resolution was debated in the German
S reichstag The attack was brillian
success; ground was won over an are3
1 ii miles in breadth and 10 miles IL
1 depth. The whole army was IN higl
e spirits. In the reichstag the victor!
= for German arms was called a "moral
! raiser"
t Russians Go to Pieces.
The next day the push was contin
ued in the direction of Tarnopol
4 which fell on July 25. and the Rus
o slams began to withdraw from on
|, position south of the Zborow-Tarno
t pol railway The tactical counter
e attack developed into an operation OF
: grand scale.
e The disorgani2ation of the Russial
n front extended further and further t
the south The southern army, tn
1t Austrian Ord and 18th armies VINO
e had a specially strong stiffening G
S German troops, moved up. The east
!, ern front was ablaze right into tn
! Bukovina. The Russian army retire
in disorder; the revolution had de
e stroyed its backbone,
s On August and we succeeded b
e steady fighting in reaching tn
., Zbrutsch Ton the frontier of Galici
g and Russia. about 40 miles from tn
: starting noin), and took C2ernovii
e and Kimpolung This was the utmos
+ TO which we could effectively develo
the counter-attack of July 10. It
Is true that for a time l hoped that tn
g Austrian 3rd and 7th armies woul
d press forward into Moldavia, but tn
re Austrian powers of attack were M
le equal to the task, and the German
y alone were not strong enough.
l. Communication to the rear turre
p out so difficult that the proper pro
~ visioning of the armies could not /
lie managed until the railways had bee
repaired. Large bodies of men WEI
set to work at this, but the destrui
* ton was so thorough that weel
s. elapsed before we could think of e:
he tending operations to the south of II
st Dniester,
ht Austrians' State Alarming.
r The German troops, as in the PR
as vious autumn, had done splendidly
a. this open fighting; they felt relieve
at from the terrible grip of trench wa
is fare. But the Austrian army, in spi
of all the care lavished on it. Shove
Id a diminution of fighting power whic
a was in the highest degree alarming.
d. On the Zbrutsch the struggle swa,
II l%a al u p1rr 1e fn, fo