Russian Campaign.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 265, 19 April 1915, Page 5

Russian Campaign.

THE CARPATHIANS CAMPAIGN. ROADS EVERYWHERE BAD. Received April 18, 3.30 p.m. r Petrograd April 17. Official: We captured two heights near Teleporch. The roads in the Carpathians are everywhere bad, owing to the thaw. IMPORTANT STRATEGIC ADVANCE. ' A VANTAGE POINT GAINED. GERMANY PREPARES A GREAT ATTACK. Recoived April 18, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, April 17. Operations on both sides of the Carpathian front are inactive, owing to th*. heavy snow rapidly melting, rendering the roads useless. Heavy rain added to the chaos in many places. Nevertheless the Russians captured Jarorov, three miles from Uszok Pass. This is tactically an important position, as it stands at the junction of two highways and the Stry-Uzhgorod-Ujhely railway. Ujhe'y is an important junction towards Budapest. The Germans are still hurrying reinforcements to Uszok. The Novoe Vremya's military expert says that Germany is evidently preparing to attack on the whole front in the hope of saving the situation by an overwhelming blow on the Czenschova-Cra-cow front. THE COST OF THE WAR.

NEARLY TWO MILLIONS DAILY, GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS IN AUSTRIA INADEQUATE. London, April 10. The Russian Budget statement lor 1915 shows that the expenditure to the end«of October was £178,500,000, tr about £1,950,000 daily. An Austrian official message has reached Home which states that only two eorp3 of second line Germans have reinforced the Austrians in the Carpathians. DESPERATE FIGHTING. AUSTRIANS REPULSED NEAR STRY. Received April 19, 12.5 a.m. Petrograd, April 18. Official: There was desperate fig'itfag in the aCrpathians between the villi ges of Telphotsch and Zuella. We took 1140 prisoners and captured three machineguns. The enemy suffered heavy losses. We successfully repulsed the enemy in the direction of Stry, where the Austrians were attempting to turn the Russian left.