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Show AUSTRIANS AGAIN DEFEAT RUSSIANS TEUTONIC ALLIES RECAPTURE FORTRESS IN GALICIA THEY LOST TEN WEEKS AGO. Attempt I1sw to be Made to Drive Russians Farther Back and Put Them on Defensive for Some Time to Come. London. WTith the capture of Przemysl, which occurred at an earl;" hour Thursday morning, June 3, the Austro-German armies achieved the main object of the great thrust which they commenced against the Russian lines in western Galicia just a month ago Thursday. They have yet to drive the Russians Rus-sians farther ihack and establish themselves in easily defended positions, posi-tions, which will enable them to detach de-tach forces for operations against Italy and the allies in the west. Whether or not they accomplish this, the Teutonic allies have won a great victory and with a suddenness which overshadows all past operations of the war. It was only ten weeks ago that Przemysl fell to the Russians Rus-sians after a six months' investment, which was interrupted for a short time in November by an Austrian advance. ad-vance. With the surrender of the fortress there fell into the Russian hands, according ac-cording to official reports, 120.000 Austrians, 600 guns and an immense amount of war material. Most of the fcrts, however, had been completely destroyed by the Austrians before they surrendered, and this is considered consid-ered in military circles here to account ac-count for the fact that the fortress succumbed so quickly to the Austro-German Austro-German attack. |