Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-17
RUSS IN RETREAT 4
FROM BUKOW|NA
100000 in Flight Before Austro-
Germans.
DEAD STREW THE WAR FIELDS
Russian Staff Tells of Bloody Struqqle
in Poland, in Which Slain Are
Numbered by Tens of
Thousands.

Berlin, Feb. 12.-The Russians have
been routed in Bukowina in the great
est victory yet won in any theater of
the war. Czernowitz, capital of Bu-
koW1na, has been evacuated by more
than 100000 Russians, the cars
troops fleeing in disorder, abandoning
guns, ammunition and food supplies.
The retreating troops, it is asserted,
were saved from humiliation only by
the arrival of fresh forces.
The Russians estimate that the
Germans lost $4,000 men in the battles
that ended Sunday says a dispatch
received in London from the Petro-
grad correspondent of the Star.
Details of a desperate fight in the
Carpathian mountains with ferocious
bayonet charges described as without
precedent in history reached Petro-
grad on Wednesday.
According to these reports, repeat
ed German attacks were finally re-
pulsed by the Russians and the Ger
man dead lay in great numbers in
front of the Russian positions. The
losses are described at enormous.
The scene of the fighting was Bali
grod, 80 miles south of Sanok, in
Galicia. 1t is claimed by the Russian
staff that the Hungarian forces in the
Carpathians have been augmented by
100000 Germans and that German Of
ficers are now definitely directing the
Carpathian movement.
The report of the general staff fol-
lows:
THE Germans have been gradually
concentrating in East Prussia. With
their fresh troops they have been
making "Reminiscences in force and
on Sunday they passed to the often
sive with large forces in the sectors
of Gorzele and Johannesburg. They
undertook active simultaneous opera
tions ON the wings, namely, in the,
region of Lasdehnen, where, in re-
pulsing a German attack, we eXter-
minated almost entirely one battalion
and along the Rypin, where our cav
airy has been concentrated, in the di-
rection of Sierpec.
Judging from the corpses aban-
doned by the &ermans in front of our
positions, they would appear to have
lost in dead and wounded several
tens of thousands of men in the six
days fighting in front of Borjimow,
Goumine and VIOLA Szydlowiecka.
I'm the Carpathians fighting contin-
ues.
nxyfn
Tucholka pass, made on Sunday ~
violent attacks against the heights
in the region of Koziowa, which had
been occupied by us. The Germans
attacked in mass formation several
ranks deep under our violent cross
fire. The enemy twice seized one of
the heights, but was dislodged by our
infantry. The losses suffered by the
Germans here were excessive and
without any precedent in history. The
enemy's attack in the region of
Wyszkow were also repulsed.
Later, in order to attack the posi-
lions at Kosiowa, the Germans began
to concentrate again. During the
night of Sunday they opened an ir-
resistible offensive and this continued
during the next morning.
Towards evening the Germans, at
lacking in great strength, captured
out highest position and were only
dislodged after desperate fight. All
the mountain slopes were Uttered
with German dead. In front of one
of our battalions more than thou
sand dead bodies were counted"