Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-04
Reported to Have Defeated
Austrians Attempting to
Reach Stronghold.
BIG BATTLE is RAGING
IN FRONT OF OSSOWETZ
Petrograd Reports Germans Making
Strong Effort to Break Through
at That Point.

| LONDON, March 4, 1925 pm.-The
interest of British readers in the Rus
sian campaign has again shifted to the
extreme southern portion Of the line of
battle. where Petrograd reports that
Gen. Brussiloff has won a noteworthy
victory south of Baligrod, inf1icting
heavy losses Oh the Austrians who
! lief Of PrZemysl.
| AT the same time an unofficial dis
patch from Bucharest credits the Rus
| sian forces with the reoccupation of
stanislau, in Galicia. about sixty miles
from Tarnopol
| Vienna reports the repulse of des-
perate Russian counter attacks in the
Carpathians. with comparative inactiv-
Berlin admits officially the German re-
tirement from Przasnysz. north OF
Warsaw, which was made in good or
der in spite of haste that necessitat ted
the abandonment of wounded
Battle Violence Increases.
| PETROGRAD, March 4. IL am, via
London-The German forces in North
ern Poland are concentrating their ef-
| forts in the endeavor to break through
the Russian fortified lines near the
| Prussian frontier by capturing the
| fortress of Ossowetz. This battle. the
| outcome of which is regarded as of
| high Importance, is proceeding with
increased violence. The Germans on
+, this occasion have succeeded in bring
| ing up some of their heaviest and
i most effective guns, including the
great sixteen-inch field pieces.
The opinion of Russian military Off
GERS is that the Germans having been
expelled from PrZasnysz, their only
/ hope of successful execution of their
plans, which include securing the posi-
tion of their left flank by breaking
through the Russian line of fortresses.
lies in taking Ossowetz. From the
character of the fighting it is evident
that the Germans have determined to
| exhaust every effort to win this point.
Advance on Northern Front.
The Russian occupa ton of kerjen,
announced officially here, shows a
slight advance on the northern front.
| kerjen lies on the left bank Of the
| Amouleff river, twenty miles northeast
of PrZasn The capture of this
town Is of more than local Importance,
since it signifies failure of the German
attempt to cut off the communications
of the Russian forces operating in the
Przasnysz district from those proceed
Ing from Myszyniec toward kolno,
border. This the Germans strove to
accomplish by occupying positions
| along the Amouleff.
| Although there is close correlation
! between the German advance from Ia st
| Prussia and their operations in con-
| junction with the Austrians in the
| Stanislau- Beskid region of Galicia, at
| the other end of the front, Russian
critics regard the activity OF the Ger
| mans in the north as relatively of the
| less importance. 1t is regarded more
! as a diversion for the purpose of en-
gaging the attention of the Russians
| while the Austro-German army is pre-
| naring for an important campaign In
| Galicia In this region. it is said, the
bulk of the Austro-German forces is
! concentrated.
Russian Success Minimized.
BERLIN, March 3. via Amsterdam to
| London. March 4.-The following dis
match from the German chief head
quarters was made public this evening:
| "Atter the marvellous capture of the
| strongly fortified town Of PrzasnysZ
! (north Poland) by one of our CORPS
| which had advanced from an eastern
direction the situation became critical
for one day by the advance of three
Russian army corps which attacked
the German wing from the east, south
! east and south and forced the victori-
ous German corps by a backward move
| ment to make front against these
| aParts of the corps were sharply
pressed, and great numbers Of wounded
| Il the neighborhood villages could not be
removed in time; but the Russians were
unable to disturb the orderly backward
movement and lost touch with the Ger
man corps. This proves that they suf-
! fered during their attacks.
| Meanwhile German reinforcements
came and the situation restored.
| "It was quite an. Insignificant Russian
! success, and cannot be compared with the
preyious German storning of Przasnysz,
in which we took 10000 prisoners and a
great quantity of war booty"