CAPTURE OF LEMBERG

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 148, 24 June 1915, Page 7

CAPTURE OF LEMBERG

REPORTED FROM VIENNA (By Telegraph Press Association.— Extraordinary.) (Received June 24, 10 a.m.) .... VIENNA, 23rd June. • Official: — Lembei'g has been captured. COPENHAGEN, "23rd June It is rumoured in Berlin and Vienna that Lemberg has fallen. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received June 24, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd June. A report says that it 13 assumed at Petrograd that Lemberg will not be ;- T held. t When the Russians captured Lemberg in September they did not attempt to make it defensiblp. (Press Association.) MILITARY STORES ALL REMOVED. (Received June 24, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd June. 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 have their value lessened by the presence of the densely inhabited zone in the rear. 1 All military stores have already been removed from Lemberg. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES ON THE DNIESTER. (Received June 24, 10 'a.m.) ' ( PETROGRAD, 23rd June. A communique states: — 'Our cavalry in the Shavli region burned a large enemy transport, put the powerful convoy to the sword, and annihilated several Commandos of Chasseurs and mounted patrols. Our infantry in the Tenev region (near Lemberg) crossed the river and bayoneted a battalion. We repulsed desperate attacks north of Ravaruska, capturing over 800 prisoners. We had an important t success on the Dniester, below Njzniow, the infantry storming many fortified farms' near the village of Snowitourf, and capturing 3500 prisoners and many machine guns. The enemy retreated in full flight across the Dniester, angl the pursuit continues on the enemy's heelp. ' The enemy is retreating at many other points in the Dniester region, and • a further thousand prisoners were taken. ON OTHER PARTS OF THE FRONT. ' The .High Commissioner reports : — • / LONDON, 22nd June, 2.35 p.m. On the 19th and 20th there was most stubborn fighting on the river Bingova, where the Russians made slight progress. t On the Narew front, German forces, in no great strength, protected by violent artillery fire, attempted the ofi'ersive, with barren result, between the rivers Omulef and Orzec. / On the left bank of the Vistula at dawn on Sunday the enemy's offensive was consigned to isolated.columns on the front south of the river Pilitza. After a short fight, the enemy was everywhere thrown back and lost hundred of prisoners. 011 the Dniester, between Mikolajof and Zydaczof, the enemy's attacks were barren, and during the course of them they were driven back on the villages of Demenka and Liesna, sustaining heavy losses RUSSIAN PRESS AND SWEDEN'S ATTITUDE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received June 24, 8 a.m.) m t, . LONDON, 23rd June, .ma Kussian press is devoting increasing attention to the attitude of bweden, The papers deny that Russia is seeking a northern outlet to the ocean. EUssia only desires an outlet at the Bosphorus, her rights to which are now recognised by all Europe. (Press Association.) THE ENEMY'S STRENGTH . • FOUR MILLIONS OF MEN TWO MILLIONS AGAINST LEMBERG (Received June 24. 10 a.m.) ' , . PETROGRAD, 23rd June. - A semi-official report «tntes that there aru four million Austro-Oormans between the Baltic and Bukowina, of whom two millions are on the 100-mile front from the lower Ten-v to Alikolaieff, and 450.000 on the Dniester front.