BRUSSILOFF MAKING DOUBLE THRUST AGAINST LEMBERG.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 4 October 1916, Page 5

BRUSSILOFF MAKING DOUBLE THRUST AGAINST LEMBERG.

FOLLOWING OUT THE TACTICS OF THE SOMME. . ■ / [RtuUr't Talagrunt.] -~ . PETROGRAD, October 3. There is reason to anticipate that General Brussiloff'e new push will extend north and south of the region, embracing the battlefieJds of lvovel and Vladimir Volynski, and a wide extent of Galicia The Entente's military experte here regard the success south of Brzczany towards Rohatyn as an important stage towards the separation of the enemy's Lemberg and Halicz armies. They dwell on the similarity between the Ruseian and the Anglo-FTench tactics.

another such tiger spring as three months ago drovl thTenemy bXforfiftv mJes But the true interpretation of Russia's apparent >ini*Mty " that preparations of vast magnitude are in progress, and the longer they continue, the harder and more certain will be the ultimate blow. -

The immediate objectives of the Russian offensive movement are the two r^w2 ,1W A y T" treS , ° f S"***™ and Northern Galicia, Kovel and Lemberg. Austrian forces, ehffened by Germans, are obstinately defending the approaches to Koyel, for its possession is of vast strategic importance in any.scheme for the defence of Poland. And if the railway falls intothe hands ot the Russians once more, co will all the country up to the Vistula Valley, which will again become the scene of a tremendous struggle for possession between Slav and Teuton., "When once the Russians regain the line of the \istula in Poland the position of the German troops thrown right forward into the Baltic provinces east and north of Vilna becomes false, and may become precarious. Lemberg can only be retained by the Austrians if they win a decided tactical victory either against the Russian centre army in the region of Busk, or against one of the flanking armies which are creeping forward to the north and south of the Austrian army of General Count Bothmer Only a military event of importance can now check the tide of the Ruseian advance, which daily gathers volume, and which threatens to engulf the army of Bothmer. Once Lemberg is in Ruseian hands, the task of pafalysiite Hungarian resistance and of further developing the main advance «gainet-Pnemysl is greatly facilitated, for the possession of th» railway centre enormously facilitates the concentration of troops and supplies, nor ere-the Russians likely to repeat the errors they made in the spring of 1915. Unless Germany can once more come to the rescue of the defeated Austrians with* Very powerful reinforcements, the collapse of the Austrian Empire cannot t>e delayed very long in the teeth of the relentless Russian invasion.. The majority of .the Hungarian nation are already agitating underground for a separate peace, and Hungary probably supplies the Austrian army with its best troops.