The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-28
MADE MUCH PROGRESS
GAINS IN THE CARPATEIANS RE-
VIEWED BY RUSSIA.
Petrograd Tells of Enormous Cap
lures Made Since March-Attack
Developed Before Shows Melted.

The official communication from
general headquarters ct Petrograd
Sunday night said:
''At the beginning OF March in the
principal chain of the Carpathians we
held only the region Of the Dukla
passes, where our lines formed an eX-
terror angle. All other passes OF
Lupkow and farther east were in the
hands Of the enemy.
''In view of this situation our
armies were assigned the further task
of developing, before the season OF
bad roads due to melting SHOWS be-
gan, our position in the Carpathians
which dominated the outlets into the
Hungarian plains.
about the period indicated the
great Austrian forces, which had been
concentrated for the purpose of re-
lieving PrZemysl, were in position
between Lupkow and Uzsok passes
1t was for this section that our grand
attack was planned. Our troops had
to carry out frontal attack under
very difficult conditions of terrtain
| To facilitate their attack therefore ar
auxiliary attack was decided on &
fro.t in the direction of Bartfeld, a.
far as Lupkow.
"This secondary attack was open
ed March 19 and was completely de
veloped.
ION March % and % our troop:
had already begun their principal at
tack in the direction Of Baligrod, en-
veloping the enemy's positions from
west of Lupkow pass, and on tht
east, near the source of the San.
"The enemy opposed most des
perate resistance to our offensive
They had brought up every available
man on the front from the direction
of Bartfeld as far as Uzsok pass, in
Guiding even German troops ant
numbers of cavalrymen fighting OF
foot. The enemy's electives on thi
front exceeded 800 battalions. (A1
| Austrian or German battalion mum
bers 1000 men, Moreover ou
troops had to overcome great nat
ural difficulties at every STEP"
Nevertheless by April 5, that is
lis days after the opening of our Of
fensive-the bravery of our troop
enabled up to complete the task as
signed and we had seized the prin
cipal chain of the Carpathians on
front between Reghotov and Volosat
of 10 versts (about Is miles,.
"The fighting subsequently ha
been in the nature Of actions in de
tail intended to consolidate the sue
cesses we won.
"To sum up: On the whole Carpa
THAN front between March 19 AM
April -, the enemy have suffere'
enormous losses and have left in ou
hands in prisoners alone at least Is,
900 men, including about 900 officers
Further, we have captured 800 gun
and 200 machine guns.
"On April 16 the actions in tn
Carpathians were concentrated in tn
direction Of Rostolki. The enemy
despite the enormous losses suffered
delivered in the course of that day n
less than 16 attacks in great strength
These attacks, all Of which were ah
solutely barren of result, were mad
against the heights we have occupie
| further to the east of Telepotch.
"Our troops during the night o
| April 1917, after desperate fight
stormed and captured height to tn
southeast Of the village of Poder
where we took many prisoners. Thre
counter-attacks delivered by the enc
my against this height were repulSeo
"In the other sections, all along tn
| front, there has been no change"
|