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Show 6iy SAFETY Retirement of the Aus- tro-German Forces From the Czartorysk Salient Made in Quick Time in Order to Escape Es-cape the Rapidly Advancing Ad-vancing Muscovites. BOTH SIDES STOP TO BURY THE DEAD Method in the Madness of General Brussiloff; New Tactics Employed in the Use of Cossacks; New Scheme for Crossing Cross-ing Rivers by Infantry. f BERLIN, July 12, via London, 11:30 ' p.m. "The Austro-Gcrmrm retirement from the Czartorysk salient, just south of the Pinsk swamps, having been completed, com-pleted, the opposing armies have come to grips all along the line of the Stok-hod Stok-hod river, where Von Linsingen has elected to stand and cover the approach to Kovel. Heavy fighting already is in progress along the Stokhod, but apparently it is merely an earnest of what later may be expected in tho persistent and desperate des-perate campaign of the Russian commander, com-mander, General Brussiloff, to reach this important railway junction regardless regard-less of losses. The retirement, according to advices from Austrian headquarters, was for Strategic purposes, and the achievemeut v is considered one of high degree. The Russians had worked well around the flanks of the old position, and if material ma-terial and units were to be saved the retirement re-tirement over an almost roadless country coun-try had to be effected at a good pace. As it was the Austro-German forces barely reached the positions behind the Stokhod before tho Russians were hammering ham-mering at the crossings. Amistice to Bury Dead. Comparative quiet prevails along the rest of tho eastern front. The Russian request for a short armistice in order to bury the dead at Baranovichi was granted and heavy fighting has not yet been resumed. Battling of the most desperate nature is going on along the front, in Picardy, but tho only news availablo here is that contained in the German official bulletins. The German correspondents at headquarters are studying the bulletins bulle-tins as industriously as the neutral correspondents cor-respondents in Berlin, and are producing produc-ing about as little independent news of the big offensive. Members of General von Falken-hayn Falken-hayn 's staff arriving directly from headquarters head-quarters could give the Associated Press only a general idea of the furious nature na-ture of the fighting, confirming the Kng-lish Kng-lish press reports in this respect, and of the British losses, particularly in the northern sector of the front. Method in Madness. For some time the correspondents in Berlin have been hearing of the astonishing as-tonishing use of Russian cavalry on the front south of the swamps, and getting repeated tales of charges of masses of horsemen against entrenched and unbroken un-broken infantry under conditions which xvould make these tactics appear the height of madness. An explanation now has been received showing that there ia a certain amount of method in this madness, and that the Russians have devised new tactics, which are employed pot to press home an assault, but to advance ad-vance a Hue of skirmishers rapidly across the dan per zone before tho actual ac-tual charge is started. The rolo of the cavalry is played when the infantry lines reach a point me 500 yards from the Austro-German trenches. A swarm of cavalry is f widely extended and then flung forward through the intervals of the infantry (CJoiCirjued on Pago Throe.) TEUTON FORCES ! NEARLY BAGGED BY MUSCOVITES Withdraw From Chartorysk Salient and Avoid Capture Cap-ture by the Rapidly Advancing Ad-vancing Russians. (Continued from Pago One.) lines. The horsemen dart forward at heail-long speed. Soon they fling themselves to the ground and" open a rapid fire against the enemy. The cossaek horses are trained to' participate in this maneuver and lie down at the word of command and form a living breastwork for the riders. Under cover of the heavy fire from the dismounted horsemen the infantry in-fantry lines advance across the intervening inter-vening country. Men or horses, maddened by excitement, excite-ment, often refuse to halt at the dostined position, but tear on against the trenches and entanglements in an unpremeditated charge. The cossacks are being largely used in attempts to force slightly guarded river crossings, though the Russian pioneers pio-neers have devised a new scheme for the crossing of the infantry where more resistance is looked for. Long, slender rafts are moored along the banks of the narrow . rivers with which this swampy country is intersected, concealed con-cealed bv overhanging bushes. At the proper moment the upstream end of each raft is released and the current swings it across the river, forming a series of narrow bridges for storming parties. |