Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 91, 20 April 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

CARPATHIANS CAMPAIGN. FICHTINC FOR EIGHTEEN DAYS. United Phess Association. Petrograd, April 10. An official summary of the Carpathians struggle to the sth states that after eighteen days' persistent fighting we captured a front seventy miles long, and took seventy thousand prisoners, including 900 officers, thirty gnus, and two hundred machine-guns. DESPERATE AUSTRIANS. TERRIFIC HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. RUSSIANS MOW THEM DOWN. (Received 8.55- a.m.) Petrograd, April 19. Details of the battle at Telephocz and Zuelle show that the Russians began to advance on the night of the 14th, and carried positions on the heights with the bayonet. Fighting was resumed with renewed intensity next day, when the Austrian made repeated charges all day long in a vain attempt to re-take the trenches. The Austrians rested and returned to the attack in the evening, when there was terrific hand-to-hand fighting along the whole line, but the Austrians were everywhere repulsed or cheeked. At dawn on th 16th the Russians slightly advanced, but the Austrians refused to accept defeat, and made charge after charge all day in an effort to recapture Telephocss. The' Russian observers hare no doubt that the enemy were primed with drink, but failed despite the superiority of numbers. Next they concentrated their attacks on Zuelle, but the Russians mowed down the attackers and then .stormed hill Xo. 542. THE COMING FORTNIGHT. GREAT EVENTS PREDICTED BY PARIS NEWSPAPERS. (Received 8.30 a.m.) Pans, April 19. Le Journal predicts great events to occur on the eastern trout in a fortnight ,\vhen it will probably be discovered that important objectives have been entirely removed from various places mentioned.