The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-07
AUSTR|ANS FLANK
RUSSIANS AND
GAIN GROUND
Russian Army Falls Back From
Hard Won Carpathians
RUSSIAN ARMY SILL INTACT
Will Make Stand on Wislaka River
Germans Take Tarnon and
Claim $4,000 Prisoners.

Vienna, May G. (via London, May
7.)-The victorious advance of the
Austro-G erman armies in West Gal
icia continues. The northern wing
has captured Tarnow. The southern
wing has crossed the Wisloka River
and the Russians are retreating east
ward of the Lnpkow Pass. An official
communication issued late this even
ing by the War 0ifice SAYS:
AT o'clock this afternoon the
last Russian positions on the heights
east of the Dunajec and the Biala
Rivers were gained by our troops.
"Tarnow was captured by us at 10
O'Clock this morning"
The strategic achievement of rolling
up a hostile battle front by flank
ing attack, of which Charlottesville
is one example in modern history, is
now in full progress in West Galicia.
Favored by continued good weather.
mile after mile of the Russian Car
pathian front has been rendered un-
tenabe by the steady, unchecked
AuSUO-Germdn HuNdDce.
The Austrian cavalry and infantry
followed the Gorlice turnpike. The
supporting artillery dropped shells on
the road from Zmigrod to Jaslo. one
OF the principal lines of the retreat
for the Russians in the Dukla region.
The Russian forces have been in
full retreat since dawn of May 5, and
are being closely followed by the
Austrian Carpathian army, according
to official adyices reaching
here. More than $4,000 prisoners
have already been captured by the
Anstrians in West Galicia.
Field Marshal Won Hoetzendorfs
plan is working out with precise
regularity with respect to this sec
tion of the front. Confidence is ex-
pressed by headquarters that the
principal portion of the Russian army
under General Radko Dimitrieff.
which is attempting to defend posi-
tions in the Carpathians to the west
of Lupkow Pass. cannot make good
its retreat. Detachments of this
army may work their way out. but it
is declared that the bulk of the army,
with the heavy artillery and baggage
can scarcely succeed in avoiding cap
ture in view of Field Marshal Won
Hoetzendorf's rapid advance through
the Gorlice breach in the lines.
On the northern front the Russians
held on desperately to Tarnow and
Wal Mountain Fortified crest
1900 to 1000 feet high between the
Biala and Dunajec Rivers-to enable
them to get great quantities of stores
accumulated behind Tarnow away
ana cover the retirement of the arm
les to the southwark. The Russians
fortified this mountain until- it was
veritabe Gibraltar, but The Arch
dukes men attacked it with a des-
perate valor and were we'll served by
their artillery This struggle may
go down in history with that for Putt
loft Hill. to the south of Mukden, in
the Russo-Japanese war.
The question as to whether the
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stand on the line of the Wisloka Riv-
er is the important one from the Aus
tro-German military viewpoint. If
they cannot, the breach i'll the Rus
sian line is considered complete, and
| the situation for the Russian Car
pathian armies will undoubtedly be
critical.
Toxic, May Peace between Jap
an and China was assured today by
the withdrawal of article 5, the most
! obnoxious to China, of the demands
made by the Japanese government.
London, May THE Centurion, a
| Liverpool steamer of 5945 tons dis
| placement, has been torpedoed by a
| German submarine, according to the
announcement of the admiralty To-
| day.
| Berlin, via London. May THE
| Germans are steadily closing in on
| the allies at Ypres, according to the
| statement of the war Office today.