RUSSIANS EVACUATE LEMBERG

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 7

RUSSIANS EVACUATE LEMBERG

REPORTS FROM BOTH SIDES MAGNIFICENT DEFENCE AND ORDERLY RETIREMENT (By Telegraph.—Frees Aesn.—Copyright) (Rec. June 24, 3.3® p.m.) London, June 23. As official report from Vienna states that Lemberg has been capturerd. "The Russian defensive forces were strongly held on the northwest and west fronts at Lemberg. The Landwehr at five o'clock on Tuesday morning stormed Rzezna and the works on the Janow-Lemberg road. "Simultaneously our troops from the north-west advanced across a height east of the Mlynewka rivulet and stormed several breastworks before Lysagora height, while further advances wore made in the direction of Lemberg. "The remaining works north and north-west were captured dttring the forenoon after sanguinary fighting. The Russian front was thus again broken. The enemy suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat." (Rec. June 24, 7.30 p.m.) London, Juno 2i. The official message from Vienna adds: —"Our troops are pursuing the enemy across the heights east and north-east of the town. We have crossed South Lemberg to the Mukolajew Road ' "General Ermolli, amidst the joy of the population, entered the city at four o'clock. . "Tho Russians on Tuesday night began a further retreat between the San and the Vistula and the billy district of Kielce." WHAT THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE SAYS.' (Rec. June 24, 9.55 p.m.) Petrograd, June 24. A Russian official communique states; "During Monday and Monday night we held the enemy's offensive in the direction of Lemberg by stubborn fighting, The enemy suffered great losses, but advanced near Wolkeff (? Zolkief), and consequently we quitted Lemberg on Tuesday, and continued the retreat on a now front. "Wo took prisoner one thousand of the enemy near the village of Uaich, on the Dniester. "Our cavalry sabred three companies west of Ravaruska." CITY ENTERED AFTER VIOLENT FIGHTING RUSSIANS RETIRED IN PERFECT ORDER. Amsterdam, June 23. The 2nd Austrian Army recaptured Lemberg after violent fighting. Austrian war correspondents adroit that the Russjans fought magnificently, and retreated eastward in perfect order. The Austrians found no booty and took few PnS °rhere'was a great outburst ,of joy throughout Germany and Austria. The capitals wore decorated with flags. The Kaiser and Emperor Francis Joseph exchanged congratulations, and the Snltan of Turkey expressed satisfaction. The Kaiser created Archduke Frederick a Prussian Field-Marshal, to mark the occasion. ALL MILITARY STORES WERE REMOVED. London, June 23. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Petrograd, in foreshadowing the fall of Lemberg, says that fighting was going on five or six miles west of the town, but field works of recent construction had their valu*. lessened by the presence of the densely-inhabited zone in the rear. All military stores have already been removed from Lemberg. STRONGLY FORTIFIED VILLAGES STORMED BY THE RUSSIANS COSSACKS ON THE HEELS OF THE FUGITIVES. The High Commissioner reports:— London, Juno 23, 3.30 p.m. In Oalicia, on the Dniester, Russian infantry carried by storm a number of strongly-fortified farms at the village of Snovidouff. The enemy offered a desperate 'resistance lure. We took 3"00 prisoners and many mitrailleuses. The enemy is in full flight across the Dniester, and the Cossacks arc pressing on the heels of the flying enemy, crossing on four nf the enemy's bridges, and continuing the pursuit on l-he right bank of the Dniester. Near the villages of Kornpctz and Kosmerjine, Hio enemy was also compelled to retreat. At -Joinva, and in the town of Stnlesrhilri, the enemy are holding their ground behind barbed wire entanglements near the Dniester. On Monday night. after a desperate, battle, the Russians stormed the villages of Balnnioutovkn, Hjaweutskv, and Gromcszhty. and took 1<X)0 pri^i 1 er», the commander uf the is'nd Hunvud iirtyailo, and uumeuiua

Events at Other Points. In the Tailed' region tho Russian infantry, crossing the river on Sunday night, near Ossuokha, bavonoted a battalion of tho 82nd Regiment. On tho following night they repulsed a desperate attack north of the Tsieszanofl'-Rava-ruska line, taking 810 prisoners, including :>3 officers, ami 3 machine-guns. In tho direction of Lemberg there was some firing. On the Dniester the Russians achieved an important success below Nizniow. The Austrians sent across the Dniester strong contingents, which the Russians havo been fighting desperately since June 15 on the Ostra-Korowitz-Kosmer-iine-Snovidoutt'-Vosilouii-TJniche front. At dawn on Monday the struggle ended in complete Russian success. In the Balkan Provinces. In the Shavli region the Russian cavalry on June 19, on the road between the villages of Teleae and Louknichki, in the enemy's rear, seized and burned a large enemy transport, partly loaded with cartridges, and put to the sword a powerful convoy, and annihilated several commandoes of the enemy's chasseurs and mounted patrols. _ There was a desperate battle at the River Ringovo on Monday. The Russian infantry progressed. ALONG THE FAR-FLUNG BATTLE LINE. Petrograd, June 23. A semi-official report states that there ar® four million Austro-Germans between the Baltic and Bukowina, of whom two millions are on the 100-mile front from the lower Tenev to Mikolaieff, and 450,000 on the Dnioster front. RUSSIAN SUCCESS ON THE DNIESTER OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMASHING BLOW. (Rec. June 21, 10.30 p.m.) Petrograd, June 24. "Regarding i.he Russian success on the Dniester, later details show the confined arek of the operations. The great loops of the Dniester below Nizuiow gave the Russian infantry a. welcome opportunity. We were firmly astride the northern outlets, but withheld the smashing blow for nearly a week, with the object of increasing the talue of the victory. * "As the enemy was constantly adding to his numbers the Russians on Sunday delivered a fine attack along rho whole line. Tho fighting lasted all day, afterwards becoming an affair of housa-to-housa encounters." RUSSIANS ATTACK ENEMY'S FLANKS ENEMY REINFORCING TO MEET THE NEW OFFENSIVE. (Rec. Juno 24, 11.50 p.m.) Rome, June 24. A telegram from Przemysl states that the Russians attacked with great force north-east of Lemberg, striking at the German left flank, and thereby | stopping the German advance north of Lemberg. It is reportod from Czernowitz that Austrian reinforcements continue to arrive north of Kolomea and Stanislau, where the Russians havo assumed tho offensive, threatening the right flank of the Austro-Germans marching on Volhynia.