New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
RUSSIAN RE TREAT
 FROM CARPATHIANS
British Press Representative Gives
 Vivid Story of Event

Army, July 30.--It is seldom that the staff of any army cares to allow a newspaper correspondent to observe or write of it's defeats and retreats. The field censor's motto is: Nothing passes except good news"
 The staff of the Russian third army has broken the precedent in allowing the freed om of it's lines 10 the British official press representative during the whole of it's heart breaking retreat from the Carpathian slopes back across Galacia and even across the Russian. frontier. The correspondents Gaily fights and daily Russian defeats followed by the inevitable retreats be- fore the Austro- Germans concentrated artillery fire, is as follows:
 Biggest Effort of Germans.
 The advance of the Russians over the Carpathians was sure to draw a and 1t came just where many expected IL, put with tre- mendous force This was because 1t was not so much the work of the tired Austrians. but rather the big gest effort that Germany has yet put up in her attempts to bolster her ally,
 In a house standing nigh by a church I found the stan of the division. There was hut on the top of the hill; sitting in front of it one could see for at least ten miles in either direction.
 The division was holding front of eight niles across a low line of wooded heights, of which the most marked. feature was village with a little church tower. Against three Russian regiments were nine, mostly German. and backed by the most formidable artillery.
 Black Clouds of Smoke.
 Beyond each of the hanks of the division one could see at intervals black clouds of smoke; one thick stream of smoke that stretched into the skies came from some distant pe- troleum works. The whole right wing was being pounded with crash after crash, sometimes four piacK columns rising almost simultaneously at in- tervils along it; under each would break out little angry teeth of spark ling flame; the only thing that seemed not to be hit was the church tower which, as each cloud died down, came out simple again in the bright sum- shine. The left wing was in patches Of smoke that sometimes disappeared for a time
 z What was happening to the center was not so cler; so after watching for some hours the shells and shrapnei bursting along the line on the slope, we descended by ssorne winding gulA lies. drawing a shrapnel as we passed over . low shoulder. and soon reached the stafr Of the center regiment
 Under the nearer wall of a hut, little groups were working at the tele- phones, while a number of soldiers lay on logs around. The colonel came {, forward and took me into the open at the ridge some six hun- dred yards away All his left was at grips with the enemy, and on his right his men were fighting at the close range Of two hundred yards in the wood beyond the crest.
 Telephones Work necessarily.
 The telephones worked necessarily. Each of the battalion commanders re- ported in turn-one that his machine guns had been put out of action, an othr that there was a gap in his line. a third that he was holding good at foll strength The colonel explained That his last reserves were engaged. A message came that his right flank was open and was beins turned He seized the telephone and called: Two companies forward at the double, re- porting his action directly to the stan of the division.
 There was peculiar humanness tH<.1 Tn they were just ordinary courteous conversation The question which brought the most disquieting answers was. How are your connections 2" The colonel on the left reported that lis line was penetrated at more than enc point but was holding out The right wing telephone gave no answer at all. Life there was unlivable; and heard from soldiers report that they had seen the Austrians in the Russian trenches.
 Shells and shrapnel were crashing sll around Us, especially in our rear. a but that I had passed on the way down broke out in full flame Nearer down there fell four black explosives at regular distances of fifty yards, .the four packets" one officer colled 1t. Cur cover would all have gone with a single shot, and the men crouched to avoid the falling splinters from each she'll
 Retire at Nightfa1l.
 Tn this most depressing atmosphere went on the conversation between the colonel and the divisional staff TT can get no track of the right wing. Cavalry Is reported on both of my Hanks The right has had to retreat The answer was an order 10 retire at nightfall. Three hours at least to wait.
 The orders were communicated in