Arizona republican., 1915-06-03
Great Conflict In the Re zion of Great Fortress Is Proving One of Most Sanguinarv and Stub born of the War
LOSSES REPORTED
 MOUNTING HIGH
The Germans Claim to Have Captured Upwards of 300.000 Russians and An Immense Amount of Material During May
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHl

l LONDON, June 2.-The battle for Przemysl, which is proving one of the most stubborn and sanguinary of the l war continues with unabated fury Both sides have poured endorsements into the field and with attacks and l counter-attacks the losses in men ant
 material are piling up to an unprece- dented extent. The Teutonic and Rus sian reports are at variance concerning the progress of the operations.
 The Germans claim to have captured upward of 300, 900 Russians and an inn mense amount of material during May. Despite this the Russians do not ap- pear to have slackened their resistance.
 As far as France is concerned, the most important fighting is north of Arras where the Germans and French are contending for the possession of a sugar refinery at Souchez which both claim to hold and on the outskirts of Le Pretre forest, where the battle for the trenches has been continuous for weeks.
 The Germans and Austrians claim some of the forts on the northern front of Premysl have already fallen and that on the southern front their troops are bONdId llit leillMdN llldI joins the fortress with Lemberg
 But the latest Petrograd communica- tion says that the Germans who got into one of the forts were driven out, makes no mention of the capture of Teutonic allies.
 To the southeast. simultaneously with this battle, the Germans are mak-
 
 BzHra-lines toward Warsaw but w1eth- CT this is a serious attempt to capture the Polish capital or only diversion to prevent the Russians from sending more endorsements into GaIicia is not disclosed. On the GallipoH peninsula, the British and French lines have been subjected to severe attacks by the Turks, all of which, according to a British report issued this evening. were repulsed. There. as in France. the trench warfare is being followed, but in this case the allies have the support of the fleet which in the daytime is able to search the Turkish trenches and prevent the Turks from coming out in open and also support the allies at tacks. The latest victims of the Ger man submarines are the British liner SdlulSn, sunk Tn the North Sea with seven of her crew and the Belgian trawler Delta B., sunk off the Scily islands The crew of the Delta were rescued
 Despite the declaration from Rome that the Italian invasion of Austria is everywhere continuing with sue cess, Vienna asserts the Italian un- dertakings have been unavailing. The enemy. Vienna says, is expending great quantities of ammunition with cut material damage to the Austrian | 
 The Italian attack on the coasta l frontier is declared to have been re- pulsed with heavy losses. The Italian | Fleet sailed to the Austrian coast | seeking to combat the Austrian ships | according to the Italian ministry of | marine. The Austrians, however, were | not sighted, and the Italian ships | destroyed by bombardment the wire ess station and observation point in he Dalmatian Archipelago.