Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-07
Austro German Frees Are Steadily Pressing Advan-
 tage i'll Carpathians.
10000 RUSSIANS
 MADE PRISONERS
Allied Forces Appear UnaLIe to Mate Progress in DardaneIles, Where Losses Have Been Heavy Accord.
 ing to Premier AsGmith.

London. May 7.-Carnow, the Cali 1 clan town at which the Russians have 1 established great military. base fer the drive on Cracow, has been cap- tured by the Austrians and Germans, according to an official statement is- sued in Vienna late last night
 The city fell into the hands of an Austro- German army at 10 o'clock 1 yesterday morning, the Austrian war office announces. Not only Carnow, but all the Russian positions on the
 heights east of Dunajec and Bia'a rivers, have been taken by the Tell tonic allies. The last Russian was driven from the trenches they had so desperately defended at 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon.
 Dispatches received in London from | Vienna state that the Austro-G German forces operating in the vicinity of Dukla pass have cut off the Russian armies in the Dukla region. From Bukowina to the Baltic, the Germans and Austrians are engaged
 in the greatest offensive movement yet attempted in this greatest of all wars. Battling desperately, but retreating steadily, the. Russians in western Ga licia have fallen back to their second line of defensive positions.
 Russian Flank Menaced. 1r the meanwhile, according to claims from both Vienna and Berlin, strong Russian forces in the Beskids are menaced on the flank by a Ger man army under General Marwitz, CO., operating with strong Austro-Hun- garian force, and heavy Teuton!c armies have, according to the Austri- an war office, penetrated the Dukla and Jaslo regions.
 Tn the fighting in the Beskids, dis patches from both Vienna and Berlin state, the Russians are being driven | from Lupkow pass. The Austro-Ger-
 mans also have obtained, they claim,
 a strong foothold in the Dukla pass,
 and are battling desperately to press their advantage.
 The Russians admit falling back to i their second line, but Petrograd de- clares the Berlin and Vienna reports to be greatly exaggerated"
 During the Russians retreat m
 western Galicia; the Germans report
 that they and their allies have taken | 10000 prisoners. Vienna asserts that the number is between 5O,OOO and 6O,- 900. and that the third Russian army faces annihilatiOn.
 Biz Guns Reduce GrOdnO.
 Long range guns are redcing Grod- no to ruins, according to German re- norts. The Austrians already have crossed the Wisloka river, which put few days ago, formed part of the Russian line.
 French Claim Gain.
 Meanwhile, furious fighting in which both sides claim success Is proceed ing in the region of Ypres. The Ser | lin official statement reports the cap ture of Vanholpe and another farm near the Ypres-Messines railroad. on setting this is the official report or Field Marshal Sir John French. which states that the British have recaptur- ed some of their lost trenches on niiI No. 60. Fighting. both sides state, IS proceeding steadily.
 By land and sea the allied forces appear to have been brought to a nalt in the Dardanelles operations. Con- stantinople reports that the entire Gallipoli peninsula is still in the mill tary control of the Turks, ana that the Franco-British forces are cooped
 upand unable to move from tnelr landing places. Their warships; the Ottomans claim, are unable to silence
 inc terrific return fire of the defend- l ing Actresses. Premier Asquith, while expressing (Continued on Page 4)