Evening journal., 1915-02-10
TIDE Of BATTLE
TURNS AGAINST
KAISER 5 ARMIES
Mountain Sides of the Car
pathianS Are Covered With
Dead and Dying
RUSSIANS CONTINUE
TO DRIVE foe BACK
By The United Press.

BY The United Press
PETROGRAD, Feb. 1O.-The battles
for the slopes of the Carpathians and
the passes which command the fertile
Hungarian plains. are being waged
with a desperation that is unprece-
dented. The mountain sides are strewn
with dead and dying Both sides are
being constantly reinforced and the
battle is developing so that it prom
ises to become one of the most deci-
sive of the war. If the Russians win
and all reports indicate that the ad-
vantage is with them-they will be
able to retain their holdings in Buko-
wilma and also to attempt an invasion
in force OF Hungary. If they are
forced to retire, it will not be disas-
trOus, inasmuch as they will simply
fall back en- their strongly-entrenched
positions in Galicia and northern and
Eastern Bukowina.
At Bartfield and Svidnik, the at
tacks of the Germans have been re-
pulsed, with heavy losses and in the
region of Lupkow Pass they have
been driven back on their second line,
the Russians capturing 60 officers,
5000 men, Is machine guns and a
large quantity of supplies. However,
/ IL is in the vicinity of Tukholka Pass,
and on the heights in the region of
Koziomoka that the fighting has been
most bitterly contested. Beginning
Saturday, a series of assaults in
/ force were essayed by the first line
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the Austrians. On Sunday this en-
gagement developed into a general
battle still in progress today. Dur
ing Sunday, the Germans made %
violent attacks against the Russian
positions commanding the approaches
to the heights of Koziomoka. The ini-
tial German attacks, essayed with
enormous numbers, were irresisti-
BILE.
Their front ranks we're moved
down. Finally the Russian positions
iwere abandoned and the troops with
drew until reinforcements could be
brought up. Then by a series Of bay
onet charges the Russians regained
their original positions. Never be-
fore in the war has there been hand
to-hand fighting of such ferOcity, ac-
cording to the reports received from
the front Towards evening on Sun
day, the Germans renewed their Of
fensive and eventually captured the
high positions held by the Russian
troops Once again they we're driven
out in another series of bayOnet
charges and the fighting ever since
has been in the nature of a give-and-
take conflict The Germans used
their massed formation to advance
with the result that they suffered en-
ormous losses. The slopes of the
mountain were literally covered with
the dead, one thousand being counted
in front of one Russian battalion
alone.
In East Prussia the Germans are
concentrating fresh troops for an Of
fensive movement against the Rus
SLAMS who are invading in force. They
have essayed the offensive in the
JOHANNESBURG neighborhood
and in the region of Lasdehnen. A
the latter place the Russians almos
, entirely eXterminated one attacking
battalion of Germans.
On the left bank of the Vistula, aftel
a series of attempts to break through
the Germans have abandoned their OF
. fensive and are now reported to bl
quiet. The German losses in the sil
days of fightingalong the Borzhymow
Gouime-V e-Voliashidlowska are declared
to be in the tens of thousands.