TREMENDOUS BATTLE IN CARPATHIAN PASSES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2431, 9 April 1915, Page 5

TREMENDOUS BATTLE IN CARPATHIAN PASSES

FIGHTING INCREASES IN VIOLENCE RUSSIANS POURING INTO HUNGARY Amsterdam, April 7. A semi-oliioial message from Vienna su.vs:—"Hie increased violence of tlio fighting in the Carpathians synchronises with the advent of fine weather. Tremendous lighting is proceeding oil both slopes J'rom Ondawa Valley to the Uszok L'ass. A comiiiuuiquo warns the public not to undor-estimatc the enemy's local successes.' 4 HUNGARIAN VILLAGES SEIZED BY THE RUSSIANS AUSTRO-GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS IN DANGER. (Rec. April S, 11.25 p.m.) London, April 8. The "Daily Mail's" Petrograd correspondent writes:—"Hitherto the Russians in tlie Carpathians have been compelled to advance in singlo column, but the capture of the Rostok Pass enables more compact bodies to move, and already Hungarian villages are in their bands, including Polvfciia, whero tlio high road to the plain begins. "The Russians are now pouring through the pass into Hungary, and tlio population is filled with terror at their approach. The Russians are penetrating the chief range of the Carpathians with large forces, which will compel the Germans and Austrians to fall back for fear that their communications may be endangered. Nothing 6hort of a miracle can avert an Austrian humiliation." GERMAN ATTACKS ABANDONED AFTER ENORMOUS SACRIFICES. (Rec. April 8, 11.25 p.m.) Petrograd, April 8. Official.—"All the summits in the principal chain of the Beskid Mountains were in our hands on April 5, taking prisoners 2900 men and three guns. "The German attacks during the last three weeks in the region- of Kosiouvka and Rozanka were abandoned after enormous sacrifices. The enemy's composition has changed several times." WHAT THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL COST AUSTRIA HUGE CAPTURES BY THE RUSSIANS. The High Commissioner reports:— London, April 7. Petrograd reports:—All the prisoners taken at Przemysl have been removed. Altogether, there were sent into the interior of Russia.' nine generals, 2307 officers, and 113,890 soldiers. In addition, 6800 sick and wounded are being cared for in hospitals at the theatre of war," their condition being such that they could not bear an immediate journey. One hundred and twenty-nine surgeons and one hundred hospital orderlies of the Austrian army are provisionally kept to attend them. A, complete list of the captured ivnr material has not been prepared, but we have recorded the capture of nioro than nine hundred guns, many in perfect order. Many others were thrown by the Austrians into the River San. • [A brief Press Association message reciting the main points of the above communique was published yesterday morning.] V "CARTE BLANCHE FOR A STARVATION WAR'GERMANS ANGRY OVER THE AMERICAN NOTE Amsterdam, April 7. German newspapers angrily comment on the American Note. The "Cologne Gazette" says the Noto gives carte blanche for all English starvation war, and is so drafted that England may simply leave it unnoticed, having no reason to fear American action, while the Note contains a veiled reproach that Germany is not observing the principles of warfare as recognised by civilised countries. UNITED STATES NOTE TO FRANCE. (Rec. April 8, 11.25 p.m.) Paris, April 8. The American Ambassador to Paris has presented to M. Delcasse a Note similar to that which was handed to Britain, saying that it was made in the "friendliest and frankest spirit." PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH PREFERS TO STAY IN PORT AFTER WEEKS OF BOASTFUL PREPARATION. (Rec. April 8, 11.25 p.m.) New York, April 7. After several weeks' repairing, coaling, and repainting, while her captain and crew wero entertained and feted, the Prinz Eitel Fricdrich has now decided to intern. . .... Until the last moment, the captain maintained that he intended to face the British cruisers outside, claiming that German cruisers wero crossing the Atlantic to drive off the enemy. LOSS OF THE BIG SUBMARINE U29 ADMITTED. Amsterdam, April 7. The German Admiralty admit that submarine U29 was lost with all hands,