Show AUSTRIA REGAINS CAPITAL LEMBERG FALLS AFTER FURIOUS BATTLE BETWEEN AUSTRO- AUSTRO GERMAN GERMAN AND AND RUSSIAN FORCES FORCES c- c If Stroke is as as' as Crushing as Predict There Will be a Transfer of Vast German Forces to the Western Frontier The Russians have lost Lemberg They occupied the Galician capital early In September and held it continuously continuously continuously con con- until June 23 when the combined German Austro-German forces compelled compelled com corn them to retreat from the city which is only sixty-odd sixty miles due duo west from the nearest point of or the Russian frontier Whether the fall of Lemberg means that the Russian army operating south of of- it in southeast Galicia is effectively effectively effectively ef ef- ef- ef cut off from the army to the north stretching across Poland to the Bal Baltic lc cannot yet be said The newspapers newspapers news news- papers of both Vienna and Berlin BerUn say this is the case and the Russian arms received a blow from which they cannot recover If the stroke proves as crushing as the predict Its effect military mill mili tary observers declare soon should b be felt In the transfer of ot vast German forces to the west where for days they have been hard pressed by the Fre French 1 h. h Petrograd has conceded the fall of Lemberg Previous dispatches from the Russian capital however related details of what purported to be the systematic withdrawal of the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- from the town and if these details details details de de- de- de tails should prove correct it is believed believed be be- in military circles that when the count is taken of the Ger Austro man booty it will not be large for as was the case at the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- are said to have worked hard to to m move ve everything of military militar value |