Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-04-07
AuStrianS Lose $4,000.

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loss in Northeast Hungary on March
2Sth is estimated at $4,000 in dis
patch to Swiss newspapers. These
adviccs say column of 1000 Aus
trianS were annihilated by the Rus
slams in less than an hour during a
desperate action six miles north OF
NerccZke.
Austrian troops in this territory
are said TO be demoralized as a re-
suit Of the enormous losses
American Engineer Killed.
London, March Silt is an
nounccd officially that among the
missing passengers Of the steamer
Falaba, which was sunk by a German
submarine, is Leon Chester Thrash
er, an American engineer, who had
been living for the past year on the
Gold Coast, British West Africa.
Thrasher carried an American
passport, and, in the form he was re-
quired to fill out before embarking
described himself rs an American
citizen, but gave no American ad-
dress. He was employed by the
Broomassin Mines Ltd.) Inquiry
at the Offices of the company here
elected the information that moth
ing had been heard from Thrasher
and that it was presumed he had
been drowned.
Passengers rescued from the Ia
laba say that when the submarine
approached the steamer the German
captain shouted in English, Il am
going TO sink you
Antohcr fitst-class passenger from
the Falaba reached Liverpool to-
night, having been rescued by a
trawler and landed at Milford.
What Will Washington Do?
The Daily Mail, in connection with
the drowning Of Thrasher, says that
the question, whether the Washing
ton gOvernment will permit a bellig-
erent to de- >'roy an unoffcndng pas
senScr ship, rGrrying an American
citizen, without giving that citizen
opportunity to escape, is raised in
its sharpeSt form.
The inquest at Milford Haven in
the matter of the sinking Of the Fa-
laba has established an official death
list Of III. Witnesses under oath
testified that the submarine fired
before sufficient time had elapsed for
the removal of the passengers.
Carpathian Battles Importann
London, March 31.-The battle Of
the Carpathians now rivals the bonn
bardment of the Dardanelles in po-
litical possibilities. German experts
assert that RusSia'S efforts are of
much vital importance politically;
that the supreme command Of the
TeutOnic allies is justified in exert
ing every effort to check the invader
there. A sudden and dramatic in
nuX Of MusCovite hosts into Hungary
might, it is argued, stir the Balkan
nations TO quick action.
After a brief lull in the fight for
possession Of Dukla Pass, in the Car
pathians. the Russians have brought
up reinforcemcntS and resumed the
attack. At Vienna it is said the Rus
slams have not been able to gain their
objective at any point along the
C2rpathian front for the invasion Of
Hungary, and that they were defeat
ed in Bukowina yesterday.
Germans i'm Own Trap.
Pctrograd. March 31.-An authcn-
tic report received here to-day de-
Scribes daring but unsuccessful
manoeuvrc in the Nicmen District.
Gradual withdrawal OF the central
part of their Tenth army, move cal
culatcd TO draw all the Russian
forces into the advance between Sill
walk and Kaivaria, was to be fol-
lowed, according to the Russian in
tcrprtatiOn Of the German plan, by a
quick Cncircling movement Of their
LEFT flank from Lake Dusa and Lake
Nimno.
Ovcr-Zcal led the German generals
to throw Il large part Of thc Twenty
first army corps and three reserve
rr"in"nts across the melting ice of