Evening star., 1915-04-17
BODIES LIE IN HEAPS
BEFORE TEUTONIC ALLIES
Slavs Said to Have Used 600 Trains
Daily to Remove Wounded
to Interior.
CARS MEN REPORTED HALTED
Captured Officers Report Conditions
Terrible and Unbearable-Spora
Fighting in Western
Arena.

LONDON. April I7.-Reports
from Austrian headquarters de-
scribe the four weeks battle in
the Carpathian mountains as the
most gigantic in the history of
the world, 5,5oo.ooo men partici
pating. This battle reached
climax several days ago. The
| Russian offensive was halted and
repulsed with the most appalling
losses. One correspondent places
these at 10000 killed, wounded.
sick or prisoners.
| Each day large number OF
trains conveyed the Russian
wounded to the interior of Russia.
On some days as many as 600 Of
these trains were used. The field
hospitals are overcrowded with
wounded and sick, and thousands
succumb without adequate medi-
cal attendance. Captured Russian
officers describe conditions as ter
rible and unbearable.
$4,000 Germans Aiding.
Private dispatches received here from
Vienna say that no fewer than 35O.ooo
Germans are actually fighting with the
|
| Carpathians.
| Weather conditions seem to be one Of
the causes of the present halt in the
| operations in the Carpathian mountains
A correspondent of the Associated
Press with the Austrian forces review
ing the situation, declares that the
Russian offensive was checked after
/ debouching on the plains on the
Hungarian side of Lupkow pass and
which had been driven into the
Russian line near Uzsok pass. The
| claim is made that the Russians suf-
fered fearful losses in making their
| supreme effort to gain the Hungarian
plains. the casualties being particulars
ly heavy among the crack regiments.
| In any event it is the opinion of Brit
| ish observers that whatever else may 10
4 retardfng the Russians flooded streams
\ and iInpassable roads in the Carpathians
are ample reason for the present delay
! Austrians Summarize Results.
The war correspondents at the Austrian
headquarters have taken advantage of
the pause in the battle in the Carpathians
to summarize the results of the Russian
efforts to break through the mountain
barrier, which have progressed as con-
tinuous gigantic battle since the fall II
PrZemysl.
| The Russians. who hurled massed
| troops first against one and then
other part of the line, succeeded in ad-
| vancing their own line slightly in the
depression south of Dukla pass, where
| they hold considerable area of the
southern slope of the mountains They
| also compelled the Austrians to straight
| en- out the big northern bulge in their
line east of this point. between Lupkow
and Uzsok passes, where ii had pushed
| forward well into Galicia toward
Przemysl. in the February operations.
The rest of the Austro-German line has
not bent under the furious Russian at
tacks. but has even advanced mate
rally eastward of Czsok pass.
Losses Are Enormous.
Eugene Lennhoff. a correspondent IN
the Carpathians, estimates that the
Russian losses in killed, wounded. sick
and prisoners in the attempt to force a
way through the passes is at least
100000 In this connection, Herr Lenn-
hoff says:
The strength of Russias proud Car
pathian army is broken. without COM
ing any nearer the goal for whicl the
Russian leaders cast everything into
the balance. Its losses are prodigious.
Bodies lie in heaps before the allied
lines.
Herr Lennhoff says that he believes
the after affects of this struggle, like
the winter battle in the Champagne
district, will be highly important. The
Russian troops. he states, are greatly
exhausted, and he expresses the opin-
ion that their offensive power probably
is seriously crippled.
Heavy Toll for Nobility.
The correspondent of the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger describes the Car
pathian operations as the greatest in
history. The battle. he continues. has
taken a heavy toll from the Russian
nobility, large numbers of young
guard officers having recently been as
signed to this front. One hundred and
fifty members of the guard were killed
in an engagement near hosno alone.
Lieut.. Gen. Lissoffsky AM Maj; Gen.
Michael Kalmitzy were among the ss-
yerely wounded Russian officers. The
correspondent says that Grand Duke
Michael, younger brother of the En-
DerOr OF Russia, Is uHucISloou " Soi-
mand a division of this front.
After few spring days winter
weather has set in over the Car
pathjans. The dispatches state that the
russians seem to have suspended their
offensive movements.
Fighting in the West.
Renewed attempts of the Germans to
break tho French line at Notre Dame
de Lorette are reported from Paris.
which declares that three counter at
tacks At this point were rspHlssd al