The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-02-20
IEUT0NS R0UT RUSS
100000. or cxARs TROOPS ADAM
DON CAPITAL or sUkoWINA
IN WILD FLIGHT.
10000 LOST IN PoLAND7
Russian General Stan at Pstrosrad
Tells Of Bloody struggle In Which
Slain Are Numbered BY Tsns n
ThoudAnds-oaIns Are Claimed.

Berlin. Feb. 1.-THE Russians hav'
len routed In Bukowina In the great
est victory yet won In any theater o.
the war. Czernowitz. capital Of Blu
kowina, has been evacuated By more
than 100000 Russians. the csar'i
troops fleeing in disorder. abandoning
guns. ammunition and food supplies
The retreating troops. It IL asserted
were saved from humiliation only b.
the arrival Of fresh forces.
"The Russians estimate that the
Germans lost $4,000 men in the battles
that ended, Sunday" says dispatch
received IN London from the Petro
grad correspondent of the Star.
Details Of desperate fight in the
Carpathian mountains with ferocious
bayonet charges described as without
precedent in history reached Petro'
grad on Wednesday.
According to these reports. repeat
ed German attacks were finally re-
pulsed by the Russians and the Ger
man dead lay In great numbers IN
front of the Russian positions. The
losses are described as enormous.
The scene of the lighting was Bali
grod. 30 miles south Of Sanok. IN
Galicia It Is claimed by the Russian
star that the Hungarian forces In the
Carpathians have bee-. augmented by
100000 Germans and that German Of
ficers are now definitely directing the
Carpathian movement
{. The report Of the general stan fol-
lows:
"The Germans have been gradually
concentrating in East Prussia. With
their fresh troops they have been
making "Reminiscences In force and
on Sunday they passed to the oGen-
sive with large forces in the sectors
OF Gorzele and Johannesburg. They
undertook active Simultaneous opera
lions on the wings. namely, In the
region Of Lasdehnen, where, In re-
pulsing German attack, we exter-
minated almost entirely one battalion,
and along the Rypin, where our cav
airy has been concentrated. In the d.
rection Of Sierpec-
Judging from the corpses aban.
doned by the Germans in front Of our
positions, they would appear to have
lost in dead and wounded several
tens OF thousands of men in the SIX
days fighting in front Of Bor1imow,
Goumine and VIOLA Szydlowiecka-
TN the Carpathians lighting contin.
ues.
The Germans. having crossed
Tucholka pass. made on Sunday "a
violent attacks against the heights
in the region Of Koziowa. which had
been occupied by M. The Germans
attacked In mass formation several
ranks deep under our violent cross
fire. The enemy twice seized one Of
the heights. but was dislodged by our
infantry. The losses suffered BY the
Germans here were excessive and
without any precedent in history. The
enemy's attack in the region Of
Wyszkow were also repulsed.
Later. In order to attack the posi-.
tons at Kosiowa, the Germans began
to concentrate again During the
night OF Sunday they opened an ir
resistible offensive and this continued
during tn, next morning.
Towards evening the Germans, 1t.
lacking In great strength, captured
our highest position and were only
dislodged after desperate fight All
the mountain slopes were Uttered with
German dead In front Of one Of our
battalions more than q thousand dead
bodies were counted"