The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-26
Rain STOPS BATTLE
WET WEATHER HALTS FIGHTING
ON WESTERN FRONT
BLOODY work in EAST
Russian Official Communication De-
scribes Heavy Losses Of Germans
and AustrianS Who Have Trans
ferred Western Soldiers to Galicia
-Austrians Report Many Captives.


ferred Western Soldiers to Galicia
-Austrians Report Many Captives.
In the war zone reports of the &C
ton contain no outstanding feature.
In fact, rains and mists have inter-
fered seriously with the operations In
Flanders and France, where, during
the past week, a determined move
ment by the French and British has
been making headway.
A fierce battle is going on in Ga
licia, the fortress of PrZemySl being
the detectives of great German and
Austrian armies. The western forts
of Przemysl have been bombarded
and between that stronghold and the
Dniester river the Austro-German
armies, attacking with the utmost
determination, captured several Rus
sian trenches, although lat the cost
of enormous sacrifices" according to
the Russian statement.
The Teutonic allies, Vienna re-
ports, have forced passage OF the
San river at several points and secur-
ed a foothold on the eastern bank.
The Russian prisoners taken dur
ing the first part OF May, the Aus
trian war office says, numbered l74,-
| 900.
London reports: The British army,
north of La Bassee, and the French
forces south of this town continue
their offensive against the German
line, and, according to their respec-
tive commanders, still are. making
progress. The German official state
ment, however, declares that all the
| offensive movements against the Ger
mans have been repulsed.
The same Inconsistency appears IN
the reports of the fighting along the
User, although the Germans admit
retirement and the French assert that
they have inflicted heavy losses on
, the invaders. From all accounts,
however, it would appear that the
allies again have melted the Ger
mans to counter-attacks, both on the
User and in the Arras region, and
that to the north of La Bassee the
British are doing the attacking.
Paris reports: Continuous rains
since Monday night and thick mist,
making it impossible to see for a dis
tance of 100 metres (about 800 feet)
have rendered operations impossible.
There have been no engagements on
the entire front. Even the cannon
aiding has been very weak
Vienna reports: "The troops Of the
Teutonic allies, after fierce fighting,
have forced a passage Of the San
river at several points and secured a
foothold on the eastern bank. Rus
sian counter-attacks were everywhere
decisively repulsed and the enemy
thrown back in an easterly direction.
"On the upper Oniester vigorous
fighting is proceeding. On the Pruth
line no particular event has been re-
ported. Isolated Russian attacks
north of Kolomea have been repuls-
ed.
s'The total number of prisoners
brought in during the first half Of
May was 174,OO0. We have captured
t12S guns and 36S machine guns"
Petrograd reports as follows in a
dispatch delayed by storm: The Rus
sian general staff, explaining the
change in the Galician campaign
from successful advance, to a re-
treat, gave out the following:
| From the middle Of April news
began to reach US Of the transport Of
great numbers of Germans from the
western front and their concentra-
ton in western Galicia. The state
of affairs thus created forced US to
stop the development of our advance
| in the direction of Mezolaborcz and
! Uzsok, in order to insure ourselves
facilities for sending reserves to the
threatened sectors Of our front.
However, the forces which the
enemy threw against our front were.
so considerable that our Third army
was unable to check the pressure on
the Conjnovitsze-Gorlitza sector.
''The result was desperate and un-
interrupted fighting, with impetuous
counter-attacks which prevented the
enemy from breaking our front. The
enemy'S action was reduced to 'front.'
al attacks on the positions of the
Third army, which he occupied in
succession.
| ''The enthusiasm of our troops en-
abled them to maintain perfect Or
der, cope with the difficult problems
of the battle and inflict enormous
losses on the enemy.
''On May 4 the whole Third army
deployed on the San, and in conform
ity with this fact we were obliged to
make arrangements which were al
ready near completion, to enable the
adjacent armies to unite their fronts.
Although we were obliged to fall
back in the Carpathians, we stimuli
taneously made a decisive offensive
in eastern Galicia, whereby We gain
ed results essential to our left wing
and inflicted a severe defeat on the
Austrians on the Dniester front of
over $50 versts (about 100 miles).
Within five days, beginning on the
9th. we captured in this region about
10000 prisoners and forced the enc
my to retreat in disorder across the
Pruth.
"On May II our long range bat