The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-04-01
RUSSIANS POUR
THROUGH OAKLA
ARE NOW OCCUPYING STRONG
POSITIONS IN FOOTHILLS.
FIGHTING RESUMED AT LUPKOW
One Hundred Thousand Troops from
the Army which sesieged Prz-
emysl are now Smashing
the German Positions.

the German Positions.
Petrograd, Mar. 31.--Eighty thous-
and Russians supported by artillery
have poured through the Dukla pass
and are now occupying strong posi-
lions in the northern foothills of
Hungary, according to dispatches to-
day.
! Their outposts are now clashing
With the rear guard of the Austrio-
Germans upon the Hungarian plains
along a 1900 mile line extending
north of Svidnik to north of Bartfa.
! The fighting has been resumed on
large scare in the Lupkow pass re-
gion where the Russians have taken
5000 prisoners.
Although the war Office makes no
comment il Is known that at least
100000 troops from the army which
besieged Przemysl are now smashing
the enemy's position along the
heights.
liban is Bombarded.
Petrograd, (via London, March 31.)
The Russian war office last night
made public the following commune
tcation:'
"On Sunday a German vessel APP
preached Libau Ton the Baltic) and
fired 200 projectiles, killing one cl-
william and wounding another No
soldiers were injured.
| "On the front west of the Niemen
river the fighting continues. On Sun
day near the village of Strunbagtow,
eight miles northwest of Lozdzieje,
we captured remnants of German
battalion, which had been attacked by
/ us with the bayonet, numbering 200.
"On the right bank of the Narew,
between the Skwa and Omulew,
fighting continues for the possession
of the isolated woods and heights.
We have driven the enemy out Of
the region around the village or
Wach.
in the Carpathians, between the
points leading to Bartfield and Uzsok
pass, our actions are developing with
perfect success. Notwithstanding
the enemy's stubborn resistance and
a series of desperate counter attacks,
we again carried some fortified posi-
tons on the heights and capteured
Sunday and Monday rs officers and
1884 men and five guns, twenty-one
machine guns and one trench mortar.
"A detachment of the enemy adj
vancing from Czernowitz (Bukowina)
on Sunday forced our frontier and
pushed forward half way to Chotin.
Measures have been taken to meet
this incursion."
Fighting Continues in West.
| Paris via London), March 31.-The
| following official communication was
issued this evening:
! During the night of March 1880
the enemy continued, without results,
to lombard the Newport bridges.
There has been an intermittent
,cannonade on the entire front from
the sea to the Aisne.
I'm Champagne, in the region of
IPerthes, Beausejour and Ville-sour-
Tourbe there was an artillery action,
and mine warfare in which we obtain
ed the advantage.
In the Argonne fighting continues
at several points with tenacity and de-
termination but without appreciate
results to either side.
"On Monday Fort Donaumont, north
of Verdun,. was struck by twenty-one
centimetre shells. Our artillery i'm
mediately silenced the German batter
les. The fort was not damaged.
in the western part of the forest of
lie Pretre we carried line of trenches
in which we took 100 prisoners. De-
spite violent counter-attack we
maintained the greater part of the
trenches won.
ITO the west of Pont-a-Mousson we
carried a German post and repulsed
three counter-attacks.
'On the battlefield at Hartmanns4
Weilerkopf the bodies of seven hun
dred Germans have been counted"
Russians in Retreat.
Berlin, March 31.-The Russian ar
mics that attempted two separate Of
fensive movements against East Prus-
STA are now in retreat, the war Office
says, having been driven back Is to
IS miles from the German border.
Five hundred more Russian prisoners
have been taken. North of the Mel
. man river the Russians have been
cleared away from the border for a
distance of several miles.
Aviators Drop Bombs.
, Berlin (by wireless to Sayville, l..
10, March. 31.-The enemies aviators
yesterday dropped bombs on the Prus-
sian towns of Bruges, Ghistelles and
/, Courtrai. the war Office announced. In
Courtrai a bomb exploded near hos
|, pital, killing Belgian civilian and
!. wounding another. The military
: damage was slight.