Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-20 | Page 10 | Teuton Retreat is Indicated by Tageblatt Story

TEUTON RETREAT IS INDICATED BY TAGEBLATT STORY LONDON, June 19. 6:53 p. m. A portion por-tion of the Austrian forces from Czerno-witz Czerno-witz has retired westward toward Kolo-mea Kolo-mea and Kuty and the remainder southward south-ward In the direction of Dornavatra, telegraphs tele-graphs Renter's Petrograd correspondent. General Pflanzer's army now is isolated, he adds, and must depend upon its own resources. As a sidelight upon the unexpectedness of the Austrian collapse, only ten days ago Czernowitz university conferred diplomas di-plomas and doctors' degrees upon several Austro-Htingarlan generals, it is recalled. Heavy fighting between the Russians j advancing toward Kovel and the Germans Ger-mans under General von Linsingen is re- ' ported by the Berlin Tageblatt's cor re- I spondent at Austrian headquarters, according ac-cording to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. The Russians Rus-sians are In superior numbers and the dispatch asserts that the Tageblatt's account ac-count of the fighting is worded so as to prepare Berlin for the news of another Teuton retreat. The Tageblatt says that the Austrians have taken up fresh positions between Czernowitz and the Dniester where they are waiting further Russran attack. In the middle Strlpa sector on the direct line to Lemberg the German general, Count von Bothmer, is reported to be maintaining his resistance against heavy pressure by the Russians.