Eastern News
BRAVE RUSS!AN GENERAL RESIGNS COMMAND OWING TO ILL-HEALTH. United Press Association. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Petrograd, April 2. Rnssky, the victor of Lemberg and Prasnysz, has given up command of the army in the field. He has been suffering from internal cancer, and hitherto has heroically refused to resign.
IMPORTANT RUSSIAN SUCCESS. , Petrograd, April 2. Official: We Stored an important success in the Kraasua region, west of Simmo. The enemy is rapidly retreating, and we are vigorously press, ing him. We secured very substantial results in the Carpathians. Wading in snow up to the loins, climbing ah almost perpendicular precipice-, and hacking at the entanglements in the forests, we dislodged the Austrians from their trenches in the Lito'wiska legion, and captured a series of fortified heights in the principal chain of the Beskid mountains. We surrounded and partially exterminated several Austrian battalions toward Clio tin, north-east of Czernowitz. and captured 1500 survivors. Altogether we took 5680 prisoners and captured fourteen machine-guns in the Carpathians on Tuesday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 3 April 1915, Page 5
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167Eastern News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 3 April 1915, Page 5
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