New-York tribune., 1915-03-26
Take $500 Prisoners
in Capture OfMOun-
tain Crest.
ONE WING NEAR
HUNGARIAN PLAIN
Cars Forces Deal Crush
ing Blow to Their Foe
in BukoWina.
ADVANCE IN POLAND
Grand Dukes Troops Press For
ward in Narew Region-Ger-
mans Fight Flank Attempt.
[Rv cable 70 The TrIhnrn I

London, March 26.-The Russian
armies have smashed their way still
further through the Carpathian passes
on the front south of Przemysl, be-
tween Bartfeldt and the Uzsok en-
trance, until at the right of this line
they are almost at the very edge of
the Hungarian Plain, which leads down
to Budapest.
An unofficial dispatch from Bucharest
states that the Grands Dukes forces
also have dealt crushing blow 70 the
Austrian columns in Bukowna. 1; adds
that the Russians fighting in the passes
TO the west have been greatly strength
ened by the arrival of fresh forces
Fighting of a desperate character in
the Beskid range of the Carpathians
resulted in a distinct success for the
Russians They seized a position of
strategic value on a crest and Wednes-
day forced the Austrians to retreat.
The Russians. according 70 the Petro-
grad War Office report. took 100 officers
and $500 men prisoners and captured
dozens of machine guns.
The Russians had 10 fight their way
through great snowdrifts and over
barbed wire entanglements, rows OF
trenches and works strongly fortified.
The Austrian War Office, however,
announces the repulse of heavy Rus
sian attacks in this particular section
of the front and declares that the fight
ii.g continues.
sNew Forces Brought Up.
1t is thought here that the Russians
in the eastern wing by bringing up
new forces may have succeeded in
turning the Austrian right. and in
reaching the Sereth River, thus getting
behind the Austrian army operating in
the vicinity of Czernowitz.
Big events at Uzsok Pass were ex-
pected, as both the Russian and Aus
tran official reports already had spoken
of heavy fighting there. and, with the
troops released by the fall OF Pre-
mysl, the Russians might be able to
dispatch strong reinforcements quick
ly to this point.
"The Morning Post" publishes the
following article on the fighting in the
Carpathians from its Hungarian corre-
spordent:
Inc winter campaign IN tne 0ar-
pathlans has been one of the many
wonders this war has produced Never
in the history of warfare was cam
paign fought on a battlefield of such a
nature. The terrene abounds in natural
difficulties. Hostile forces have crossed
the Carpathians before now, among
them the Russians. in lS4S. but unop-
posed. To cross them against opposi-
tion in the face Of the great forces
of modern guns, bleak winds, snow
storms, impossible roads and bitter
cold is more than any modern army,
however great and keen it may be, is
able TO accomplish.
Easy Task in Spring.
"On the other hand, an army that
has endured hardships, reinforced with
men as strong. healthy looking and well
equipped as the Russian prisoners in
Hungary seem to be. in mild spring
weather. under bearabe conditions.
will meet with little difficulty in ad-
vancing against an army like the one
with which Austria will oppose il, an
army exhausted, its gaps filed with the
fathers Of fallen soldiers and unframed
men up 10 forty-two, with contagious
disease raging within its ranks and
with only 30 per cent of real good Hun
garian fighters"