THE FIGHT FOR LEMBERG MARSHES ASSIST DEFENCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1915, Page 7

THE FIGHT FOR LEMBERG MARSHES ASSIST DEFENCE

AUSTRIANS REPORT SUCCESS (By Telegraph.— Press Association. — Copyright.) PETROGRAD, 21st June. The txceptionally heavy rains in Galicia are assisting' the Russian defence fey increasing the bogs and rivers, which are greatly swollen. Many small streams are now formidable, owing to the wide marshes on Wth The guns are audible at Lemberg. Passes have been issued to ten thousand Russians to leave the town. ENEMY CLAIMS COMPLETE VICTORY. AMSTERDAM, 21st June. mmmmm and much material. GERMAN DEVELOPMENT STOPPED. (Received June 22, 9.30 a.m.) PETROGRAD, 21st June. Official: -Details of the fighting at Lubaczow show that the .crisis was day U n neT^lod g c h hen?o SrAfcLnigofi Hussars, the .Cossacks of^he Don and the Kinburn Dragoons to charge, and the Germans fled panicstncken aHalonT the line. We pursued them till the German reserves took up a new front. %e suffered a loss of two hundred killed and wounded, but stopped the development of the enemy's success. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports :- In Galicia, on the Tanew front, outpost engagements are reported. Details of the fighting in the Lubaczow region show that the Russian cavalry on Tuesday attacked the German infantry with exceptional boldness, cutting them up, and dispersing the 91st Regiment. The attack produced a panic in the enemy's ranks, arresting their offensive. On the Kamenobadd-Komamo front, the enemy's advance guards on Thursday attempted to force a passage of the Grodek lakes, but were driven Below Niznioff, the enemy crossed the Dniester in great force, biit theii? effort to emerge from the big windings of the river was successfully repulsed. Between the Pruth and the Dniester, after obstinate engagements, the Russian troop 3 progressed on Thursday on the Omit-Bojan front. [An official message from Petrograd says that the enemy's forces crossed the Dniester below Ntzniow, and occupied two villages. The Russians drove them back, inflicting great losses, and taking 2000 prisoners in one village.]