The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-07
AUSTRiANs AND GERMANS HAVE PRACTICALLY DRIVEN THEM
 FROM CARPATHIANs.
HEAVY ARTILLERY EMPLOYED
Guns That Were Mads>
 Oefenses Were Used by AlA With Telling Effect Against h sians-Try to Cut off Retreat.

Vienna May (Via London) May 7.-l2.30 a. m.-The Austrian south ern wing has crossed the Wisloka river. The Russians are retreatinQ eastward of the Lupkow pass.
 vienna (Nia London) May 6.-11:09 D. m.-The stragetic achievement ,f roIling up a hostile battle front by tIanking attack, of which Chancel. Iorsville is one of the few successful examples in modern history, is now m full progress in West Gaicia. Favored by continued good weather. mile after mile of the Russian Carpa. thian front has been rendered unten- able by the steady unchecked Aus troGerman advance.
 The Austrian cavalry and infantry followed the Gorice turnpike ard a. ready havye reached the VI ,ka river The supporting artrrlery dropped shells on the road from Zmi- grod to Jaslo one of the principal lines of the retreat for the Russians in the Dukla region.
 ---Ili-7 Russian forces have been in Getreat since d-wn of May and are beSgg closely followed by the Austrian ts-Es.s-as .s ? a&a-a..S. to official advic.1 I reaching here. More than fifty thousand prisoners already have been captured by the Austrians in West Galicia.
 Field Marshal Von Hoetzendorfs plan is working out with precise regu- larity with respect to this section of the front Confidence is expressed by headquarters that the principali portion of the Russian army under Genera Radko Dimitrieff, which is attempting to defend positions in the Carpathians to the west of Lupkow, Pass, cannot make good it's retreat.
 Detachments of this army mayv work their way out but it is de- cared that the bulk of the army with the heavy artillery and baggage can scarcely succeed in avoiding capture in view of Field Marshal Von Hoet- zendorfs rapid advance through the Gorlice breach in the lines.
 An official communication issued this evening by the war office from Vienna says:
 At f o'clock this afternoon the last Russian position on the heights east of the Dunajec and the Biala rivers were gained by our troops.
 "Tornaw was captured by us at 10 o'clock this morning"
 The question as to whether the Russians can make a successful stand on the line of the Wisloka riv er is the important one from the Aultro-Ge.- man military viewpoint, If tAey can not, tEe breach in the &5rF'nT>* ss, considered complete aA Mo, will undoubtedlyf be cririca. y
 The heaviest rStllery was an, ployed in these opertatiohs. The 4a centimeter mortars n action were however, not the not, ed German gnna but of Austrian make. They wana designed originally f{ pr coast defense purposes but have been found ev ceedingly valuable for land warfora They fire proiectilI les 65s pounds heavier than the German mortar and are understood to be comparatively mobile and quickly set up
 The effect of these mortars during the artillery preparations for battle is described as oyerpoweli2S Shells from them have reached the supply depots behind Tarnow. The Aus- trians also are equipped with highs effective smaller Howitzers of a new type which were put into the field during the latest stage of the war.