Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-02-19
TEUTONs R0u1 RUSS
soasos or czAR's TROOPS AsAN-
DON CAPITAL or BUkowINA
IN WILD FLIGHT.
Rnrsian General STAR at Petroerad
Teiis Of Bloody Struggle In Which
Slain Are Numbered by Tens Of
Thonsands-csins Are Claimed.

Berlin. Feb. i2.-The Russians have
hsen routed In Bukowina in the great
sEt victory yet won in any theater OF
me wnr. Czernowitz. capital Of Blu
kowfna, has been evacuated by more
&hnn 100000 Russians. the cars
krn0ps fleeing In disorder, abandoning
gums. ammunition and food supplies
11hs retreating troops. II is asserted.
were saved from humiliation only by
TIC arrival OF fresh forces
The Russians estimate that the
Germans lost $4,000 men in the battles
that ended Sunday" says a dispatch
Eecefyed in London from the Petro-
xz1d correspondent OF the Star.
Details Of desperate fight in the
Asarpathian mountains with ferocious
RayBnet charges described as without
precodent In history reached Petro-
grad ON Wednesday.
According TO these reports, repeat
"a German attacks we're finally re-
Duilsed by the Russians and the Ger
EzAn dead lay in great numbers in
rrumt of the Russian posi-io The
Rrsses are described as enormous.
The scene OF the fighting was Bali
grOd. 30 miles south Of Ssnok, In
H1nlieia II Is claimed by the Eussian
staff that the Hungarian forces IN the
Darpnthians have bee= augmented by
.1p0.000 Germans and that German Of
meers are now definitely directing the
E,nrpnfhfaD movement
The report Of the general staff fol-
Isws:
The Germans have been gradually
Rwncentrating In East Prussia. With
their fresh troops they have been
unnking reconnaissances In force and
ON Sunday they passed to the of,en-
Eiwo with large forces in the sectors
20 8orzele and Johannesburg They
masnrtook active Simultaneous opera
kigns ON the wings. namely. in the
regiuD of Lasdehnen, where. in re-
w1lsing n German attack. we exter-
nnfmfed almost entirely one battalion,
urna along the Rypin. where our cav
salry has been concentrated. In the d.
rrrsi0n Of Sisrpec
Judrfng from the corpses aban.
duned BY the Germans in front Of our
Rositions. they would appear to have
1pst IN dead and wounded several
tsns of thousands OF men in the six
SsJB lighting in front Of Borjimow
Eiounins and VIOLA Szydlowiecka.
IN the Carpathians lighting contin'
mrR.
Tho Germans, having crossed
TachoIhn pass, made on Sunday q
violent attacks against the heights
m the region Of Koziowa. which had
bssn occupied by us. The Germans
utfscked IN mass formation several
RANKS deep under our violent cross
HwB The enemy twice seized one oi
ne heights. but was dislodged by oui
kHfnntry. The losses suffered by tbs
Gernans here we're excessive ant
~Efthout any precedent in history The
unemyis attack In tae region o.
Wyszk0w were also repulsed
Later. IN order to attack the posi-
figns NJ Kosiowa. the Germans begar
~ concentrate again During tn,
ulEht OF Sunday they opened an ir
rusisffble offensive and this continued
earring tho next morning.
Towards evening the Germans, at
.zrking I'm great strength, capture,
our highest position and were oni.
Efzlndgsd after a desperate fight. AL
khe rnountain slopes were Uttered witt
herman dead In front of one of ou
Antfalions more than a thousand dea,
bodies were counted"