Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 6

Eastern News

HILL 992 "CdLftbTHA." FIERCEST FIGHTING OF THE WAR UnITSD pHEHi ASBOOIAIIOB. London, April 27. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Lemberg states that amid the snowcrowned peaks in the heart of the Carpathians is Hill , ,992, thirty . miles south of Stryj, dominating a river with a railroad aiid a high, road running through a •,winding gorge. Hill 992 has been the scene of the fiercest mountain fighting of the war. It has earned.the title of "Golgotha.". The Germans alone lost twenty thousand ,since the Austro-Germans attempted to dislodge the Russians. The Austro-Germans captured Hill 992 on April ninth, but the Russians .still hold the village of Koziova, and the gateway of the plains is firmly and securely beld. 'J he llusr.iam could retake Hill 992, but it would hot be worth the cost of a frontalattack in view of the Russians' general position in the district. DESPERATE BATTLE PROCEEDING. Petrograd,. April 27. Official: The desperate , battle in the -direction of Strji continues. Our fleet bom barfed the Bpspborous forts, causing great explosions. Austrian! put Russians to flight. Vienna, April 27. An official message claims that tho Austro-Germans captured a height south-east of Koziova, capturing a thousand prisoners. The enemy repeatedly counter-attacked Kozioya and the adjoining districts. All the attacks were repulsed with heavy losses. Two battalions were annihilated and several further hundreds made prisoners. We occupied Russian trenches. The Russians before Uszok then retreated in full fliglft.