Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-04-15
RUSSIANS START
ON FINAL DRIVE
Capture All Important Heights of
Beskid Range Save
One.
ANOTHER BATTLE IN POLAND
Petrograd Claims Carpathian Cam
paign Will Go Down in History
as Most Brilliant In Military
Annals of Russia.
BY FRANCIS LAvELLE MURRAY.

BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
international News Service Correspondent
Petrograd, April 12.-With all the
important heights Of the Beskid
ranges in their possession except one,
the Russian army is being heavily re-
enforced for the final stages of its
drive toward the plains of Hungary.
Feeble Austro.German attempts to as
sumo a counter-offensive in the Car.
pothians between UsZok and Lupkow
passes broke down under the severe
Russian fire. The dominating height
in the Beskids which the Austrians
still hold Is known on the military
maps as hill No. 900, and it lies a few
miles south of Lupkow pass.
In Poland another fight has devel-
oped on the northern edge of the Su-
walki region and there is every reason
to believe that Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg, the German commander in
chief has massed heavy force there
for an offensive movement by which
he hopes to weaken the Russian pres
sure against the Austro-German armies
in Galica.
German Veterans to carpathlans.
All the seasoned German veterans
that could be spared from Poland were
sent into the Carpathians and the bulk
Of the troops now fighting under the
German standard in northern Poland
are reserves.
The capture of two German aviators
near the Vistula in Poland, the death
Of several high German army officers
In the wreck Of military train and
the destruction of a military hospital
in Bukowina by artillery fire are all
reported in a brief official statement
given out by the war office. 1t fol-
lows:
ION the right bank of the Vistula a
German aeroplane was shot to earth
and two aviators were made prisoners
by Cossacks. A German train, carry
ing the staff of a German army corps,
was derailed In Poland and several su-
perior officers were killed and others
were wounded.
"Czernowitz (the chief city of Buko-
wina) has been almost completely de-
stroyed by the fire of the Austro-Ge
man artillery. The city was swept>by
fire. A military hospital was burned
and about twenty helpless wounded
soldiers perished."
The Carpathian campaign which is
being waged by Grand Duke Nicholas
will go down as one of the most bril-.
liant in the military annals of Russia
The Russians are carrying on their op'
erations under almost insurmountable
difficulties. Plunging through snow
filled valleys and clambering up the
ice.coated mountain heights under the
| deadly fire of the Austrian artillery
the Russian troops are fighting
against the forces of nature as well as
against the armies of Austria and Ger
many. The Slavs are relying upor
their mountain guns and upon the bay
, onet for victory in the Carpathians
and the bravery with which the troop:
| have fought can be measured by the
: steady gains they have made agains
. mighty obstacles.
German Losses Enormous.
Gen. w. A. Soukhomlinoff, the Rus
sian minister of war and adjutant t,
Car Nicholas, in an authorized state
ment to the press declared that tn
!. morale of the Austrian army had bee
broken down. He pointed out that tn
Austro.German armies in the Carpath
ans have retreated nearly twent
Q miles from their first positions an
s that entrance into the Hungaria
$ plains is now only a matter of time
" The German armies have suffere
n such enormous losses that the GeI
o man government fears to reveal then
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