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Show mm ait:.- it f Force of Muscovites Said !r.a' to Have Passed the v Carpathians and to Be rvcL- V One Day's March Into the Grain Fields of the r Dual Monarchy. cs- . the' AUSTRIAN REAR he IS THREATENED e, Operations of the Czar's j Troops Said to Be Con-& Con-& ducted With "Mechan-i "Mechan-i ical Regularity," the Teuton Soldiers Being on : Si: Unable to Parry Blows. "r i CI: .' '." IjONDON, July 13. The Russian opera-tions opera-tions again are becoming interesting. c . The Russian military critics dwell on what they describe as "the mechanical regularity" regular-ity" of the etrategic and tactical blows jj. dealt by Russia on her various fronts and m:: the absence of any indications that the ' enemy forces are able effectively to parry rr.s: of them. The recent Russian successes have tt' brought them much nearer Vladlmir-Vo-)Cr lynskl and Kovel, and the German corn-La: corn-La: nninications between Kovel and Lemberg J fare threatened by the Russian advance fl' to Stoyanoff and Sokal, preliminary to the on investment of Demberg. In Transylvania the Russians have ob-tained ob-tained two important eastern passes in the Carpathians, Jablonltza and Khiibaba, v " while they also hold command of the ; Delatyn-Budapest railway. Their cavalry 0: Is moving in the rear of General Pflanzer's ' forces between KImpolung and Kuty, and apparently the invasion of 1-lungary has begun. 1 According to one report, a Russian force ; already Is ono day's inarch into Hungary, k tlirealenlng the Austrian rear in the mountains. The Russian advance also 0A. continues successfully in Asia Minor, and he' it Is reported from Rome that the Turks have evacuated Kermanshah. re" - RUSSIAN FORCES , AGAIN FOLLOWING S ROAD TO HUNGARY rif : FBTROGRAD. July 19, via London. ' 7:-0 p. m. Russian infantry tn Galicia th Is advancing toward the passes of the Carpathians which lead Into Hungary. 'fl Kurt lie r north in the ma rah region, the ;,: official statement of today says, an at- tempt of Austro-Germaii forces to take I lie offensive was broken. In the Oui-fri Oui-fri casus the Russians have made- further e. advances. The announcement follows: " On the Riga front artillery en-QV en-QV gagements continue. At Dnko Miulzal . -i " our infantry and lake flotilla, under v-1 I lieutenant Olsehevsky made a surprise sur-prise attack on the Germans in the ' rt night, throwing the in into complete panic. Enemy airmen manifested ;U great activity from tho region south of the Dvlna to the Tinsk marshes. On tho Stokhod there was artillery tj0' fighting at many places. u'- Wo repulsed by our artillery fire ; j' an attempt on tho part nf tho enemy l;, to tako the offensive north of P; Odzer marsh. Owing to the heavy ;r rains tho Vmiestor hns risen almost 2.b "meters, destroying Austrian t'1' bridges, buttresses ond ferry boats. On our left (lank, in tho redon of : the rivers hiR'-k and White Tchero-I Tchero-I : mosi'he. southwest of Kuty. our ln-iii-' fan try Is advancing toward the inoiiu-i inoiiu-i '( tain defiles. In tho Caucasus, on our right wlnsr. J. in the region of P.Uvrzllik. jioutli of ( Trfblzond and Ialburt a nd west of . Raltmrt, we made connuiora bio ad-vmupps ad-vmupps pvorywlior, dislo.Uiu:.- tlie Turkish n'ar gunrds. In m-'ont days our columns enptured eighty Turk-ish Turk-ish officers, more than l-o men. otic heavy xun and Ave machine cutis. , Prussians making eS HEAVY ATTACKS ON VON HINDENBURG Jif RKUI.1X. July 1f. via London. r.:.V, ,, V- ni. The Russians have been stromrly r reinforced atom: the front south and ' .- southwest of Rtiia at the northern end of the Russian linos and have made head-V head-V wny ftttackimc Kiold Mershat von Hin-f? Hin-f? denburfi's forces th.err-, the war office an- - nounced today. The assa ults, howpwr. all failed, the Russians suffering umisu-ally umisu-ally severe Iosscp. The ofiielal statement on operations on tlie eastern front says: 3 A rmy group of Field Ma rshat von 1 C H'ndenhurg : South and southwest of ' jo: Rica our brave retrimonts caused re- ! pealed attacks by Russians, delivered -3 with strengt hen ed forces, to break j ? (Continued on Pago Three.) j RUSSIANS ENTER HE PLAINS OF HUNGARY (Continued from Page One.) down with extraordinarily heavy losses for the enemy. Army group of Prince I,eopoid: The situation Is unchanged. Numerous bombs were dropped with good success suc-cess by our aeroplane squadrons on railway stations at Horodizeja. and Peorjilzy and on the Minsk-Barano-vichi line, which la filled with troop transports. Army group of General von Lin-si Lin-si ngen: In places ihe artillery of the enemy was very active, especially on the fitokhod and to the west and southwest of Lutsk. |