The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-02-11
TEUTONS ABANDON
DRIVE ON WARSAW
Seek to Force Cars Men Back
in BukoWina.
RUSS ARE DRIVEN FROM PASS
Austrians Vietors in Fighting in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Report
ed to Have Captured
Four Villages.

Petrograd, Feb. 9.-Anothcr sudden
change has taken place in the situa.
ton in Poland. The Germans appear
to have abandoned efforts to break
through on the Bzura-Bawka line and
to be concentrating their main energy
on an attempt to roll up the extreme
left of the Russian position in Buko-
wilma and the eastern ridge of the Ga
lician Carpathians. The Germans have
also hurried re-enforcements into East
Prussia and assumed the offensive in
the valley of the Sheshupa, thus far
without success.
Give Way In 5ukowina.
The Russians have had to give way
in Bukowina. The situation of the
Russians in Bukowina was bound to
become uncomfortable as soon as the
Germans concentrated an attack on
that point, in consequence OF the
propinquity of the Roumanfan frontier,
which allows no room for maneuver.
ing.
Progress in carpathians.
Official and semiofficial communi-
cation show that elsewhere in the Car
pathians rapid and victorious progress
Is being made. The Russians have now
crossed the ridge by the Mezo-Laborch
pass, taking the town from which it
derives it's name. and pursuing the
Austrians down the valley on the Hun
garian side. On Thursday and Friday
about one hundred officers and 5000
of the rank and file we're taken prison,
ers.
Drive Russ From Pass.
London, Feb. 9.--While the Aus,
TRANS have driven the Russians from
Dulla pass in the Carpathians, wiping
out thousands of men hurled into the
narrow mountain detles In an attempt
to take the Austrian position by as
sault, the Germans in Poland have
suffered severe setback before War
saw, opening the way for the expected
Russian offensive calculated to free
Poland of the Teuton armies.
Russ Capture Four Towns.
Desperate fighting is going on in thu
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licia, and VoloCtz, in Hungary. AC
cording to reports the Russians hav,
captured the villages of Tiles, KOmar
| mix, Osertesz and Swidnik.
The Russians have pierced the Aus
trian line between Sanok and Gumen
no and have taken Mezolaborcz. II
this attack the Russians captured 2,50(
men and five machine guns. Accord
ing to the same advices repeated Ger
man and Austro-Hungarian assaults
along the hungarian frontier, includ
ing a particularly energetic attacl
near the Tisza river, have been re
| pulsed by the use of bayonets.
Berlin, Says Little.
The statement from Berlin says:
"On the East Prussian frontier
southeast of the Plain of the Lakes
and in Poland, on the right bank o
| the Vistula, there have been few un
important and for us successful en-
gagements of local Importance. Other
wise there is nothing to report from
| the East"
| Great tribute Is PAID In Pctrogra(
to the continued mobility shown b!
the German forces in their lightnin:
changes of front In the recent trans
fer to East Prussia the Germans mad'
use of an enormous number of automo
biles for moving their soldiers. The!
are in possession of 10000 motor cars
each accommodating 20 men with fooC
and ammunition, and capable of 1
speed of IS miles an hour.
Budapest dispatches refer to thu
extensive shipments of troops by thu
Russians to East Galicia and Buko
wilma, with the evident intention o
massing all possible troops there in al
effort to hold the Russian positions.