South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-07

tria may make sufficient concessions
to appease the demands of Italy.
Private dispatches received in Co
penhagen from Berlin are to the eff
feet that Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg and Foreign Minister Won
Jagow have arrived at Berlin from
the front in connection with the Ital-
ian negotiations.
Fighting unequalled in sustained fe-
rocity is going on night and day on
the front in western Galicia. The Aus
trO-German offensive continues, but
the Russians. grimly battling 10 retain
the hold on the Carpathians for which
they paid so great price. are at
tempting rally on their second line
of defense.
According to latest dispatches from
the rival capitals the struggle in this
theater has resolved itself into a grim
and bloody grapple on front OF more
than 80 miles. in whicn the Russians,
their front line broken several days
ago, are attempting to withstand the
drive Of the Austro- German legions
against their second line.
Russ Holding Their Own.
Petrograd admits that the present
Teuton offensive which extends from
Bukowina to the Baltic provinces ex-
cells all previous attempts TO break
the Muscovite grip on the Carpathians,
but asserts that the Russians are hold
ing their own. although admitting that
the AuStro- Germans have broken
across the Dunajec.
Vienna's claim to a tremendous sue
cess in this region are far more
sweeping than Berlin's. The Austrian
statement says that the Austro- Ger
mans are advancing successfully along
the entire front in western Galicia."
And that strong Russian forces in
the Beskids region are menaced on
the flank by the victorious Austro-
German army"
Vienna admits, however, that the
Russian armies are still intact and
are covering their retreat. Attempts
TO take up strong positions are being
made, ii is stated. The humiliation of
the third Russian army is predicted.
The Vienna press halls the Austro-
German advance in western Galicia as
Russian disaster.
"Russias campaign of more than
eight months with the aim of invad-
ing Hungary has come to naught,"
says the military expert of the Neue
F'reie Presse. 1.-The efforts in which
the Russian commanders sacrificed
nearly a million men have eliminated
in disaster"
Correspondents at Austrian head
quarters state that in five days the
TeutOn forces advanced fully AZ miles.
Important Move.
The German invasion OF the Baltic
provinces Of Russia which is regard
ed lightly in Petrograd. is said in
Berlin to be an important movement
under the personal direction of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg. His aim is
believed to be to strike at Libau and
Riga. in an attempt to harass Russian
communications with Warsaw.
In the western theater furious fight
ing continues in the region OF YpreS,
both the British and Germans claim
ing slight gains. Sir John French in
an official report to the British war
office states that some of the trench
es lost to the Germans when they
lOOsencd their cloud OF poison gas
upon the British defenders of hill No.
60 have been recaptured. The Ger
mans report the capture of several
farms along the Ypres- Messines rail-
way.
A rather important German gain is
reported from Berlin in the ALLY
wood Here the French were driven
from positions they had set up and
more than 1000 French troops, in
Guiding p officers. made prisoners.
The French losses in killed. Berlin
States, were extremely heavy.
Allies still Attacking.
Reports received in London from
various sources state that the allies
are still keeping up their desperate
attacks in the attempt TO force the
Dardanelles and that equally desper-
ate counter-attacks by the Turks have
been repulsed.
Heavy losses on the part OF the
Anglo French forces are admitted by
British officials. Premier Asquith, ad-
dressing the house OF commons yester-
! day said:
"Our military and naval forces have
commenced magnificent operations on
the Dardanelles. The loss Of life ne
CesSarily has been heavy"
The Turkish war office in an Off
cial statement issued at ConstantinOple
denies reports that the towns OF Ma
CARA and Gallipoh have been captured
by the allies. Only at two points, Avi
Burnu and Sedd- l-Bahr. have the
allied landing forces succeeded in
holding their positions il is stated