New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-04
Battle in Carpathians De-
velopes Into Series of
Bloody Duels.
GERMANS RETIRE
FURTHER IN NORTH
Grand Dukes Army Advances
Slowly Along Whole Line
in Upper Poland.
rBv Cable 10 Tho Tribune. I

London, March 3.--From the "Car-
pathian fighting" as 1t was termed,
great Carpathian battle has developed.
1t has lasted long time because the
terrain is nearly impossible and
masses cannot march. run or surround
each other. The engagement is one
of small units-sometimes companies
and seldom battalIons which confront
each other In bloody encounters in
small, confined places, brow against
brow" The snow IS so deep that the
dead remain standing in 1t, buried TO
the waist.
North of Nadvorna and northwest
of Kolomea. on the end Of the east
ern wing, new battles have developed,
and are still going on, for the resist
Gnce of the Russian forces is UNI
bounded. They are continually at
lacking, and every now and then make
fierce bayonet charges. The posses
sion of Kolomea is exceedingly i'm
portant, as it Is railway centre.
In their determination to relieve
Przemysl and drive the Russians out
of Galicia, the Austro- German armies,
which for some weeks have been on
Mountains. made repeated attempts TO
break through the Russian intrench-
ments, but without success.
Since Sunday last, when in massed
formation they threw themselves
against Russian troops holding strong
positions, the Austro- Germans have at
tackled again and again, in spite of the
heavy losses which this kind OF fight
ing entails.
Yesterday, according to the Russian
official account, the Austrians deliv-
cred furious attacks between the San
and Ondawa rivers, only to be thrown
back as they were in their previous
efforts, while the Germans made sew
eral fruitless attempts around KOHL
ouwka and Rojanka, at the latter point
losing two companies, which were sur
rounded and annihilated.
No estimates have been published Of
the losses sustained by the Germanic
armies in heir efforts TO break through
the Russa lines at these places, but
they are said to have been very large,
as the Russians positions were almost
Improbable.
Regarding the Austrians' attempt 10
outfank the Russians in East Galcia,
two Russian official statements in sue
cession have reported that the Aus
TRANS suffered severe reverse, and
alone more than 6 900 men. The Rus
SLAMS captured also q number of Ger
mans and large quantity of transport
material.
On the other extreme wing in
North Poland the Germans have either
assumed the defensive or are retiring,
except at Ossowetz, where they con-
tinue to lombard the fortress. Berlin
reports unoificially that at this point
the Germans nave succeeded in ST.
lencng two forts. Their attempts to
approach the city, however, have been
repulsed by the Russians.
The Germans siege artillery facing
OssOwetz is in considerable jeopardy
The streams draining the forest and
marshes into the Bobr River are thaw-
ing, and the Germans have taken some
of their heavy guns westward outside
the range to dry land. Around Rad
zilow, it IS believed, however, that some
Of their heaviest guns north of the
fortress cannot now be moved.
The Germans, while claiming success
near AugustowO, where they captured
] 900 prisoners from among the Rus
sian forces who tried TO cross the
Bobr River, admit that they have with
drawn their advance guards south OF
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been feeling their way forward 70 the
northeast of Przasnysz.
The fact seems 70 be that the Rus
SLAMS are advancing along the whole
northern line, but very slowly, because
of the mud, which impedes the move
mcnt OF guns and transpor: wagons.
They have been able TO reinforce their
armies at every threatened point. and
are now considered to be in as good
position as the Germans, who nave left
their railWaNs hahind thnm