The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-07
DEFEAT And VICTORY
FOR SLAVIC FORCES
RUSSIANS ADMIT REVERSES IN
GALICLA.
Allies Make Further Progress in Strug-
gle For the Dardanelles.-Claim
Big Success Against Turks.

Big Success Against Turks.
From the east again comes the re-
port OF fighting which, because of its
sanguinary Character and consequent
heavy losses, gives that part of the
great war zone the chief place in the
days news This time the Turks are
said to have ben losers. They are de-
clared by Petrograd to have ben COM
pletely defeated by tie Russians in
the Knori-Dilman region of the eau
casus, leaving more than $500 dead
on the fed, and their survivors are
said to be fleeing before the Musco-
vites.
Full details of tie defeat of the Rus
SLAMS by the Austro-German forces
along the Nida river, from the, Vistula
SOUTHWARK through the Carpathians,
have not come to hand, but Vienna de-
clares the Russians lost 10000 men
taken prisoners and % cannon, 64 ma
chine guns and quantity of war ma
terials.
Petrograd admits that the Austro-
German forces have crossed to the
right bank of the Dunajec, not the
Nida river, but says that desperate
fg:ting continues.
Concerning the inroads of the Ger
mans into the Baltic provinces of Rus
sia nothing has come through to show
that the Germans are not continuing
their advance through this rich ter
ritory virtually unchallenged. The only
report of the operations in this vicin-
ity, and this from an unofficial source,
says that tree German officers and
80 men, with one gun and two ma
crime guns, have been taken into Riga.
On the Western battle front the Ger
mans claim the capture in Flanders Of
Zevecote, Zonnebeke, Westhoek, the
forest of Polygonous and Nonnebos-
schen, and to have caught the retreat
ing allies under flank fire from their
batteries northeast of Ypres.
A readjustment of the British line,
according to the London war Office,
brings the allies line to the west of
Zonnebeke. This reaignment was due,
London says, to the loss Of ground
resulting from the use of gas
bombs by the Germans last week. All
along the Ypres front, London de-
clares, t:ere has been comparative
quiet for the last "a hours, except for
a slight attack by tie Germans north
east of Ypres, which was beaten off.
Both Paris and Berlin report attacks
and counterattacks at various places
along the remainder of the line in
France, but neither claims any great
advantage.
The Britis. admiralty asserts that
the allies have repulsed tie Turks
everywhere on the Gallipoli peninsula,
inficting enormous losses, and that
the British now are advancing into
the interior of the peninsula. The
Turks, on he contrary, say that the
advance near lAviburnu was stopped
and the British driven back with
heavy losses to the coast. In addi-
ton Constantinople asserts that the
British battleship Agamemnon was
struck by four shells and forced to
retire from inside tie Dardanelles and
that an allied transport was set on
FIRE by Turkis3 guns.
Two British trawlers, the Cruiser
and the Scottish Queen, have been
sunk by German submarines off Aber-
deen, Scotland. Four members of the
crew of the Cruiser were killed and
four injured The men on the Scot
tish Queen We're rescued.
Berlin reports unique Aappening-
an engagement between German air
ship and several British submarines,
In which the airship dropped a bomb
on submarine and sank it.