Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-15
GERMAN PLUNGE
At RUSSIAN LINE
Muscovites Capture Bes!1id
Mountain Height in II
Hour Battle
THOUSANDS KILLED
Not sithstanding ALstro German
Claims, Russians Reported to be
Forging Ahead all the Time.

London April ID Sharply con,
fic,img reports regarding the pro
eress of the great Carpathian pass
battles came from Petrograd and
6el::n today.
A dispatch from Petrograd annom-
ced that the CClmaas are blowing up
The railway tunnels through tho Us.
2ok pass in preparation for Il re-
treat.
AG official statement issued at Bnr-
lin this afternoon declared that the
Russians have been badly beaten and
c,.e"ked al every point in the at,
temp invasion pt Hungary.
The Russians are exhausted. nc
Berlin war Office announced. Their 1t
tackg have grown steadily weaker
in the last few Gays until the pres
sure on the Austro-German lines has
Almost ceased
The Russian attempt to use the
Premsyl siege army to force an III
rasion of Hungary has failed" was
rie nositive statement made at l;er-
!i.i.
Per'ograd, April l5--F'ightin" is
loH ;r progress with more or less
inicaaity, over the. whole Russian
stra; cgic front, fully 1000 miles il
e::,:,it, Of irrea ul;;r winding Inc.
At present thc Russian lines :ao~
siiarr salient angles towards the enc
my uYct Considerable part of ne
:.i.oic front from the Baltic coast II
.i,2 frontiers Of Gessarabla.
The Germans arc attacking more
lr icss on both horns Of the ere
scent shaped battle front Of Russia.
On tie northern horn the Germans
still! hold as'faw miles Of Russian
,syaIaps. and arc fighting with some
desperation there. On the other horr
i. Gukowina. fighting is still mo-e
stubborn and cr5erprisine. while about
Koziowa and =hc Uzsok: Pass :cTy'
large German forces are engaged iii
trying, to turn eho fortunes of var
The fact thai. the latter region is
the only remaining section over IA
,00-mile Carpa:hian front. where ihc
enemy still holds orc pass and S"ina
heights, explain; he prediction o!
the Germans for this point. OF attack
If they finally lose this. rs they
rave lost every other point. they car
hardly hope TO hold on the plains
The enemy whom they have been un-
able to prevent from forcing the for
nilabie barrier OF the Carpath!ans'
Sapposing for moment that the
.avf, German Amy corps should ,uc-
ceeG n achieving the impossible and
win Tic final victory at this point
whittier does it lead? The point was
chosen obviously fo:' the purpose OF
relieving Premysl and basing IDOL
tl;at fallen fortress reconquest oi
Csllc,a. But without a fortress for
b:y that is dream even more
futile than several other manifesto
t;ons Of German strategy.
The most they could now hope tc
accomplish, il they forced their way
through from Uzsok Pass, Is to cut
tho Russian communication. They
will rot do that, even if they did ac'
i,i.;e the impossible task Of getting
,:,rn,rh into Galicia. Meanwhile, tn.
on,v result of their frantic attack:
in tris region has been more norm
Gus loss.
Az matters are now, neither in Buk
o,,i.,. nor in the Province of SuwaiE
; could the enemy successes much IT
fec, the main advance. which, 0
course, is only AIDED by the enemy;
! fixtures in both regions. In the mean
time, Russia is sending quantities O.
! soed ard corn irto Galicia for tre'
6,sttibution to insure rehabilitation 0
; -. oevasted new province as speed
IS as possible.
In a desperate attack by the Rus
/: sian, On the right flank OF the Aus
,ricn position at Mezolaborez. on IN
Hungarian side OF the East Beski
mountains and about 50 miles sout1