THE CARPATHIAN CAMPAIGN1.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 745, 13 February 1915, Page 5

THE CARPATHIAN CAMPAIGN 1 .

AUSTRO-GERMAN EFFORT. ENEMY'S FEARFUL LOSSES. Petrogradj Thursday. The Russian positions at Koziomaka, between Stry and Munkacs, in the Carpathians, are screened to the south by denaa forests, whereas the enemy are unable to cross an extensive glacis fronting the Russian position without their movements becoming known and without coming under sweeping artillery fire. At rtawn on Sunday the enemy's infantry was hurled forward with terrific impetuosity under the cover of furious artillery fire. The enemy relied upon the momentum of enormous numbers to drive the Russians out of their positions. Unceasingly the enemy scrambled up the slopes in four or five closely-ranged lines. Huge gaps were torn in the front rankß, but were rapidly filled. Thousands fell, but the human wave swept on and invaded a portion of the Russian trenches.

A battery posted on the enemy's flank sent a raking cross fire into their rsnks, but Lieutenart Chebenaeff was not satisfied with the results obtained. He obtained permission to move the gun into the open. Advancing in a thick storm of shells he enfiladed the enemy's lines and lightened the defenders' task. After an unexampled bayonet battle the enemy were driven out of the trenches and fled downhill in irretrievable rout. Though sometimes they fought with great tenacity, their losses were stupendous. Contorted bodies of the slain were sharply silhouetted against the snow. The enemy's attempt to scale the heights in the depth of winter was audacious. The temperature was many degrees below zero.