The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-18
AUSTRIA ROUTED,
RUSSIAN Claim
Victory Complete in South
eastern Calicia and
Bukowina.
DNEISTER FRONT BROKEN
Twenty thousand Prisoners Captured
in Battle, According to Re-
port by Petrosrad.
By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.

By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
Petrosrad May Incomplete victory
for the Russians in Southeastern Galicia
! and Bukowina is announced by the war
Office in an official statement issued here
| today.
The Austrians have been routed along
the entire Dneister front Of 100 miles. it
states. The Russians have taken 5000
prisoners.
For ten days there has been severe
| fighting along the Dneister front, where
the Russians have been assailing the
Austrians' right wing. after checking its
attempts to advance and strike at the
! lines Of communications upon which the
Russians depend for sending supplies and
re-enforcements to the troops which have
| been withdrawing before the Austro-Ger-
| man assaults in the Carpathians and in
Western Galicia.
Fifth Change on River.
The Austrians have been driven
from their positions along the south
bank of the Dneister River and have
been compelled to cross the Prutn.
Nadworna, twenty-five miles south of
Stanislau, has been recaptured by the
Russians. This is the fifth time Mad
worna has changed hands.
On the river Pruth the Russians have
occupied Sniatyn. twenty miles north
west of CZernowitz. The Russians are
wheeling their entire left wing once
more toward the Jablonica pass.
In Northern Poland the fighting is
progressing favorably for the Rus
SLAMS. Today's official statment re-
ports the repulse of a German column
in the Shawl region.
The official statement issued at the
office haa
ters and forms review of recen,
operations.
Prevented Break in Front.
From the middle of April" it saws.
news reached us of the TRANSPORT of
a great number of Germans from the
western front and their concentration
in Western Galicia. This forced us to
stop the development of our advance
in the direction of MezoIab orcz and
Cszok in order not to extend our move
ments too far and to insure ourselves
facilities for sending available reserves
to the threatened sector.
The force which the enemy threw
on our front was SO considerable that
our third army did not succeed in
checking the pressure on the sector of
Ciezkowice and GerIice. The fighting
was desperate. but we prevented the
enemy from carrying out his intention
of breaking our front
1.-The enemy's action was reduced to
frontal attacks on the position of the
third army. which he occupied in sue
cession., The great enthusiasm Of our
troops enabled them to maintain per-
fect order and cope with the difficult
problems forced upon them by the bat
tie and -inflict enormous losses on the
enemy.
RenrrnnEement Started.
''On May "a the whole third army de-
ployed on the San. In conformity with
this fact We were obliged to proceed to
a Encouragement which already is near
ing completion to enable the adjacent
armies to unite their front
Although We were obliged to do this
and fall back from the Carpathians. we
simultaneously made a decisive Offensive
in Eastern Galicia, by which we real
lied results very essential to our left
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