The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-13
RUSSIANS TAKE OFFENSIVE IN
 EAST GAL|C|A
Another Big Battle Added to Those Already in Progress in the
 War Zone

London, May 12.-Q1.20 D. m.l-Another big battle has been added to those talk ing place in Flanders and Western Cali cia the Russians having taken the of fensive in eastern Galicia. Bukowina and along the Dniester river.
 According to the Russian report the
 Muscovites have driven the Austrians
 back along a 40-mile front. capturing many prisoners and making a great haul
 of booty. The Russians also are said
 to have taken energetic action against the Germans who raided their Baltic provinces
 and to have recaptured the town of
 Shawl. while in central Poland they are
 on the offensive along the Bzura river Heavy fighting also is reported from
 the Gallipoli peninsula and the Dardan- elles. where the Anglo-French troops last Friday had advanced to the vicinity of krithia, some five miles from the point where they landed and from the entrance to the straits Since then the fleet has recommended a heavy bombardment of the forts in the narrows, an indication, fl is believed here, that the troops have got in such good positions that they no
 longer require the support of the ships fire.
 Battle in Belgium The greatest interest however. eenters | ill the great battles raging from the Bel | gan coast to Arras, in northern France, and the battle in western Galicia, where the Russians still are falling back be- fore the Germanic allies.
 l In the battle in Flanders the Germans | continue their attacks against the Britist | lines east of Ypres, where Saturday 5ni Sunday and almost daily since then they have lunched tremendous attacks. These attacks according to the narrative of the official British eyewitness tonight, had | some initial success, but since have been repulsed with unvarying regularity until l ''the ground is literally heaped with
 dead.' The narrative say the action re | solved itself, on our part. into pure kill | ing"
 | Farther south towards Arras and south | and east of that town the French of ! fensive continues to meet with consider able success, although the French have l lost some trenches which they had won | in front of the town of Loos. The Ger | man attacks on the British were made | in anticipation of an Anglo-French of l fensive. which some critics believe to be | the "big push" although others are of
 the opinion that General Joffre is only ''nibbing'' at the German lines in an eff
 fort to induce them to counter attack in
 which he expects them to lose heavily,
 even when they are successful.
 Russians Retreating l The Russians admit that they are still
 ting in western Galicia, while the 1 Austrians and Germans make greater claims and say that, besides crossing the I San river, they have captured many towns on the northern slopes of the Car pathians and right across to the Polish border and are forcing the Russians to 1 give up many of their had won posi- | tions in those mountains.
 | Their advance eastward has brought l the Austro-Germans nearly within strik- l ing distance of Przemysl, and military ob l servers believe that unless the Russians l can make stand the river San the 1 fortress of Przemys the fall of which ! caused such great impression not many l weeks ago. will soon again be in the hands ] of it's original owners.
 l American action with regard to the 1 sinking of the Lusitania and the Italian l situation are the outstanding diplomatic | features of the war. The latest news l from Rome Is that the Italian govern | ment intends to constitute parliament an arbiter on the question of peace or war.