The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-03
RUSSIANS CLAIM TO
 HAVE MADE ADVANCE
DESCRIBE GAIN OF GROUND ALONG AUSTRIAN FRONTIER
 AND TAKEN PRISONERS.

London, April 2.-10:50 D. m.-The Russians TOW are on the offensive along the whole of their front from the Baltic sea to the Rumanian bor- der and in the Caucasus and accord ing to Stockholm dispatches they Der of soldiers on the coast of Fin land to prevent any attempt by the Germans to land there.
 All the Russian advances, accord ceeding with success The Russian official report issued tonight makes the claim that the Germans in north Poland are being pushed back to the East Prussian border and that in the tarpathians between the Lupiow and UzSOk passes the Russians have captured still another strongly forti- fled ridge, overcoming in doing so al- most insurmountable difficulties. such as the sealing of steep ice-cov. cred pills and penetrating cleyerly ar ranged barbed wire and timber ob. tructions.
 The Russians also have taken the offensive against the German forces in the region of Kozouwka near Uzsok pass, which long has been launching attacks against the Russian position. In that district a large number of prisoners is reported to have been captured
 Against these reports of Russian success the Austrians made the calm that they have repused all the Sus- sian attacks in the B, skid range Of mountains further east.
 The Russians declare they have successfully countered an Austrian raid into Bessarabia, near Chotn. Their reports say that units of the FOrty-secOnd Honved division of the Austrian army which undertook this diversion were virtually annihilated, and that over two thousand of the survivors were captured.
 It is declared that the Turks have now been entirely cleared out of TransNaucasia and that the Rus. sians hold the Turkish Black sea | coast as far as Arkhaye.
 On the western front the battles are of a scattered nature. Beyond artillery engagements the only fight. | ing that has taken place is in the | forest of Le Pretre west of Pont-a. | Mousson, where the French are try.
 ing to reach the roads leading from
 St Mihiel to Metz and to the south 1 of Peronne, where the French also
 are on the offensive.
 During the last 24 hours news has l been received iii London Of the sink
 ing of the British steamer Eston. for.
 merly the Southpoint, the Norwegian
 bark Nor and three British trawlers | by German submarines, and the Dutch steamer Schieland. presumably | by mine. Several sailors of the 1 Schieland are missing. The sinking of the trawlers, it is alleged here, is a violation of The Hague convention of 1907, which expressly exempts | fishing vessels from molestation. In connection with the submarine warfare the German protest made l throughout the United States against the refusal of Great Britain 10 recog- | nize the captured crews of subma- | rineS engaged in attacks on mer. chant ships as prisoners of war and | the British foreign secretary's reply thereto, are creating a lot of interest in London. The British reply de- clared that while over thousand sailors belonging to warships de. stroyed by British men-of-war had been rescued by the visitors, not a single British sailor has been picked up by the Germans where they were successful