Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 44, 22 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

—.— CRISIS AT LUBACYON. RUSSIAN LINE BROKEN. GERMANS FLEE PANIC-STRICKEN Unithu Pnvmi Association. (Received 9.30 a.m. ) Petrograd, June 21.

Official.—Details of the fighting at Lubaczow state: A crisis was reached when the Germans succeeded in breaking our line to the west of Lubaczow, and were advancing rapidly northwards. Our infantry, which had spent four days in arduous fighting, were exhausted, and General Volodchenko ordered the Chornigoff Hussars, Don Cossacks and Kinburn Dragoons to charge the Germans, who fled panic-stricken all along the line, and we pursued them till the German reserves took up a new front. Wo lost two hundred killed and wounded, but we stopped developments of the enemy’s success. DEFENCE OF LEMBERG. THE RUSSIAN REPORT. Petrograd, June 21.

Exceptionally heavy rains in Galicia are assisting the Russian defence bv increasing bogs. The rivers are greatly swollen, and many small streams are now formidable, owing to the wide marshes on either side. Guns are audible at Lemberg. Passes have been issued to ten thousand Russians to leave the town. Official.—The enemy’s forces crossed the Dneister below Nizniow '.ad occupied two villages. We drove them back, inflicting great losses, and took two thousand prisoners in one village. AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Amsterdam. June 21. An Austrian communique says: Wo gained a fresh and complete victory. The Russians have collected the remnants of their defeated armies for a defence of Lemberg. General Ermoli, (■following General Makeusen’s vicI tory, stormed the Russian positions on both sides of the Lemberg load and entered the enemy’s main positions. Everywhere the Russians ase now retreating on the entire front towards Lemberg. We captured a thousand prisoners and much materia-