Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-04
Austro Germans Crush Rus sian Forces, Which Are
 Trapped in Mountains.
TURKS DRIVE OFF
 ATTACKING TROOPS
Damage to Bombarding Ships Report. ed from ConStantinOple--in Flanders EcrmainS Make Gains and Their
 Submarines Torpedo , Vessels.

London May 3-Notable victories fer the Germans and their Austrian and Turkish allies were reported yester- day in official reports received from the various military headquarters.
 Most imposing of these was the Austro-German success in West Cali cia, where, according to the Berlin duke Frederick, General vOn Mac KeIbens forces. after bitter fight ing, pierced. and everywhere crushed" the entire Russian line
 Turkish claims hat the enemy forces have been driven back to the Sea in the Dardanelles are confirmed a to the Asatic shore by an Athens dispatch, which states that the 4O00 French -..acps which were landed at Rum Kale to aid the British in the occupation of Sedd-el- -Bahr on the opposite side of the strait, have re- turned to their transports. London infers that this withdrawal was for strategic reasons and says that the troops have left for an unknown destination.
 Official Constantinople claims are that the French cruiser Henri " was hit and put out of action, the battleship Vengeance was forced to retire definitely, torpedo boat attacks by the allied fleet on the Dardanelles were repulsed, and the British forces were prevented from improving their positions on the Gallipoli peninsula by the effectiveness of the Turkish gunfire.
 German submarine attacks on ship ping again came strikingly to the front. The Norwegian steamer Lail0 and Baldwin were tOrpedoed off Leth, Scotland, the Swedish steamer Elllda was sunk and the Norwegian steam ship Varilde, was held up in the North sea.
 Germans Gain in Flanders. Slight German gains are reported in Flanders, northeast of the Poel- captelle-Ypres road, and the capture of a farm to the southeast of St. Julien is claimed
 The movement in Western Galacja is probably of greatest importance of any action since General von Him. derberg's great drive to the north.
 The Russian army in the Carpa- thians is in imminent danger of being cut off. The Russians have gained the southS.A slope of the main ridge ond have worked their way well into the eastern Beskids through Dukla and other smaller passes.
 General von ,MacKenzen's army has shattered the Russian right wing on a line running north and south. about 50 miles cost of Cracow, from the Hungarian border to the junction of the Dun159c and the Vistula.
 Russians In Trap. Meanwhile, another strong Austrian column is working it's way north along the valley of the stryjc to at tack the left wing positions of the czar1s force. If the lotter column can prevent the Russians from giv- ing way to the left and east while ven Mackenzen is working his way around 1arnow and the main ridge: the czar's forces will be trapped i1 the passes. It wi& be difficult for them to extricate themselves from their positions, owing to the heavy thaws which are swelling the streams.
 An attack on the Austrian right wing has been predicted recently in Petrograd dispatches. as an offest to the German efforts farther east on the Carpathian front. Dispatches sent out from Berlin several days gao indicated that a great battle was being fought in this quarter. It was then reported that the Russians, in order to avoid the disastrous effect of the fire of the Austrian heavy artillery had evacuated their posi-