Evening star., 1915-01-25
PURPOSE Is TO ExPEL {
INVADING ARMY OF CAR
Simultaneous Attacks Are Reported
From Bukowina and the South
Polish Provinces.
SUCCESS CLAIMED BY VIENNA
Report That Russians Are In Re-
treat, However, Lacks Confrma-
tion in the Austrian Of
6cial Statement.

hcial Statement.
| PETROGRAD, via London,
January IS, p.m.-There has
been pronounced activity along
the entire Austrian front of 900
miles during the last few days.
This is regarded here as mark
| ing the initiation of the plan
for an Austro-German offensive
! movement, which is believed to
have been adopted recently with
the object of clearing the Russian
invaders from Bukowina, eastern
Galicia and northern Hungary.
Austrians Begin Advance.
In Galicia. between the rivers Wis.,
toka and Jasloika, approximately thirty
| miles east of the Dunajec, Gen. Bro
jevitz, commander OF the fourth Aus
| trian army. has undertaken forward
movement in the direction Of Przemysl.
| Whether this is an attemptvto relieve
Przemysl. which has been under siege
for several months. or to force the
Russians to withdraw from Bukowina,
Is not yet clear.
I Simuitaneous attacks are recorded on
-t<he- Russian positions in Bukowina, in
the vicinity Of Kimpulung, and in the
south Polish provinces of Radem and
Kielce. along the line from InowIodx
| to KonSkio and fhenca 70 SohLov
where heavy artillery engagements
| have occurred.
Desperate Fighting Reported.
Northward there appears to have
| been little change. Northwest of War
saw. from Rudzanowo to Debrzyn, on
the vistula. the Germans are still on
| the defensive.
| On the left bank of the Vistula west
| Of Warsaw and along the Rawka- the
Germans are stubbornly attempting to
advance. Between Bergmow and
Gumin. twenty-five miles west of
| Warsaw, desperate hand-to- hand fight
| ing is reported. The village of Bergi-
NOW has changed hands several times
| as the armies surged back and forth.
At last reports 1t was not occupied by
forces is able to hold 1t.
In this fighting the Germans put into
use improvised steel shields, which
were moved forward for the protection
Of trench diggers.
Pushed Close to Enemy.
Behind these shields the disgers
worked until two lines of trenches had
in foru hun
yards Of the Russian positions. So
close and accurate was the firing that
| a hat hoisted on the point OF bayonet
invariably would be riddled with a
shower of bullets from the opposing
trench. Fighting of this character went
on for days with no noticeable advan-
tage for either side.
No less stubborn is the action on the
line between Cranov and Kurdvanoy.
southeast of Sechaczow. In this vicin-
ity- the Germans are said to have
moved forward in the open, over fields
strewn with the dead. many of whom
had died by freezing. The progress
made here. as the fight went on be-
tween the lines of trenches. was slight.
Neither the Germans nor the Russians
were able to gain more than a few
yards.
Reports of Russian Retreat.
LONDON, Jan. %. 10:46 a.m.-Although
Vienna reports via Amsterdam enlarge
upon Austrian successes in Bukowina.
claiming that the Russian. are retreat
ing with heavy losses Of munitions and
prisoners, a wireless dispatch fro-a
Vienna early today, givin.: an official
iSaued there
this about the fighting in that legion:
In Bukowina quiet reigns after our
last successful battles" The COM
A., anication also tells Of fighting in
the Carpathians as follows:
I'm the Carpathians the Russians
were driven out of several trenches
which they had pushed forward south
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Gen.
trail News says:
According to Vienna reports tho
practically ceased. There are 5000
russian prisoners in the fortress"
Russians Strengthen Defenses.
BERLIN, January rs (by wireless).-
A snecial dispatch to the Frankfurter
Zeituns from the Austrian headquar-
ters saws: THE Russians are working
with a big force on their third line of
defenses eastward OF Gorlice (Galicia),
and surrounding 1t with wire entangle-
ments. Their first line is weakly
manned. which leads to the impression
that the Russians at this important
point of our front are thinking only Of
2 defensive SHINE kilometers in front
of our artillery line. Our well built
infantry positions extend to the palace
grounds of Gorlice."
A dispatch from Vienna says: Cor
respondents OF the Vienna papers tele-
eraph from the front that the Russian
attempt to outfank the Austrian right
wing in southern Bukowina has been
frustrated, and that the Russian have
been thrown back near Kirlibs6a- The
Austrians, according to those Dispatch