The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-04-01
5 BREAK UP
GERMAN / ADVANCE : / u n |:
4 Battalion AnnihiIated While
Attempting to Get in
Rear Of Russians.
STILL FIGHTING FOR PASSES
cxars Soldiers Claim Possession Of
Western Outlets Into Hungary,
But Austrians Continue to Hold
Eastern Approaches.

Eastern Approaches.
Petrograd March 30.-The following
official statement from general head.
quarters was issued tonight:
On the front west of the Niemen
We have everywhere stopped the Ger
mans counter offensive. A battalion
of the Twenty-frst German corps,
which was advancing Sunday over the
ice Of Lake Dusia, with the object Of
getting in our rear, was attacked with
the bayonet near the village of Zebr-
ziski and annihilated.
THE enemy's siege batteries at o.
sowetz have almost ceased fire. Fight
ing continues between the Skwa and
:Orzyo rivers. In an extremely desper-
ate battle for the village Of Wahl, we
captured nine machine guns.
In the Carpathians, between Nor
1itze and Bartfeld, the AustIians Satur-
day made persistent but fruitless at
=tacks near the villages Of Gladychan
and Reghetow. In the direction OF
Balligrod, on the left bank of the Up
per San, in the sector. OF Radzieiouw,
Polianka. Zavoy and Javorjitz, we have
made progress and have taken more
than six hundred prisoners and four
machine guns. Near Koziouwka Satur-
day we repulsed new German attacks"
Battling for carpathlans.
London, March 30.-The battles for
the Carpathian passes are proceeding
with ever increasing violence. The
Russians are in complete possession Of
the western passes and are advancing
into Hungary, bue the. eastern passes
remained in the hands of the Germanic
allies, who, however, are being strong
ly pressed by their reinforced adver-
saries.
In the west the mine warfare con-
tinues, without any important changes
in the position of the two armies.
italian Troops to Border.
Geneva, March 3O-Italian military
headquarters, 1t Is reported here, has
ordered several regiments stationed
near the Swiss frontier, with bases at
Como, Xarez and Brescia, to move to-
ward the Tyrolese frontier where Aus.
trians troops shaye~ bsen concentrating
in the last fortnight.
Await Good Weather.
London, March 29.-In the West the
are waiting for better
conditions before making any effort on
a large scale, although the French
here and there are attempting to cap
ture positions which would give them
an advantage when the general often
sive is decided upon. Their more re-
cent efforts have been directed against
the heights of the Mouse, to the east
and south of Verdun, in which both
they and the Germans claim to have
made gains. The object of these oper-
atoms is to compel the Germans to
evacuate St. Mihiel, where their line
reaches the River Meuse, causing a
bending of the French |
front.
Germans Lose Heavily.
Eleven thousand German dead have
been taken from the trenches won by |
the Frepch during twenty days OF
fighting in the Champagne country.
The German losses in killed, prisoners
and wounded are estimated by the
French military authorities at $4,000.
The German wastage, they say, has
been two to one compared with French
losses, because the Germans would try
to regain lost ground by counter at
tacks repeated again and again, with
obstinate courage. 1t was in these
counter assaults supported by relative
ly inadequate artillery and what the
French officers assert was inadequate
against the allied troops, that
30 many German soldiers have fallen.
The graves in which they are buried
by ffties and by hundreds are thick
upon narrow front Of some fifteen
miles.
Russians Through carpathians.
The Russians have pushed their
'front.' we'll through the Carpathian
toward the plains Of north
nm Hungary, in the vicinity Of Bart
'eld, capturing an Austrian position
I've miles due south Of Tarof.
BY taking the Austrian positions ct
he source Of the Ondava river ut
Nijini Po1ianska. twelve miles north-
,ast OF Bartfeld. the Russians gaia
control Of the roAds leading direct 10
3artfeld and southwark to Svidnik and
o the valley OF the Ondava. Fl
The Austrians recently were reiA-
orced by German troops and are max.
ng > hard night 70 prevent themselves
icing driven into tls open country ,
vhich lies. twenty miles behind them. !
Mother and Dsey Died In Fies.
Ottawa, H.. March 3e.-The charred
odIes OF Mrs. David Gtarke and her