New Britain herald., 1915-02-23
RUSSIANS CAPTURE
 l,500 AUSTR|ANs Pttrograd Claims RepuSes of Aus trians and Germans at Many PoinIs.

Petrograd, Feb. 23.-Repulses of the Austrans and Germans at several points on the western battle front are claimed by the Russians in an official communication issued last night. It is stated that in eastern Galicia, south east of Stanislau, two brigades of Aus trians were driven off with the loss of 1,50O prisoners including twenty officers and several machine guns. The communication follows: #|
 Fighting continues on the right bank of the Bobr and the Narew, in isolated engagements. An encounter of secondary importance occurred near Grodno, on the Lypskow road. in which we attacked the Germans.
 Russians Take Jedwabno. .a
 The guns of the fortress were used actively and effectively in the fight ing in the Ossowetz district On the road from Lomza we took Jedwabno after a fierce combat. The enemy took the offensive in considers ble force in the Przasnysz region.
 ''We captured several villages on the road between Racionz and Plonsk, talk ing 500 German prisoners on the left bank of the Vistula.
 German Attacks Repulsed.
 Attacks of the enemy on the north bank of the Pilica in the district of Lopuszno were repulsed.
 Tt has been definitely learned that the Austrians suffered, very heavy losses north of Zakliczyn in western Galicia on February IT.
 Austrians Driven Back
 After capturing the heights of 1x,s1r T Carpathians, our troops repulsed re- peated counter attacks of the Aus trians, who reached a point within a few paces of our positions but were forced back with heavy losses.
 Russians Carry Hill.
 The Germans delivered four at tacks against the height of Myto Koz- iourka on the night of February 20, but were driven back. We had car ried the hill, which was an import ant part of the enemys position. We attacked the Austrians south of Stanislau in eastern Galicia and 1 drove back two brigades after a con- l bat in which the bayonet sometimes l was used. We took here 1, ,oO0 pri- i soners, including 20 officers and sev- 1 eral machine guns"
 1 Russian Officers Optimistic. Petrograd, via London, Feb. 23, l 2:15 D. m.-Making claim to marked 1 successes in the Carpathians and to ] having defeated the German offensive l campaign in the north, which never 1 emerged from it's period of prepara- l tion,'' Russian staff officers took an 1 optimistic view today of the outlook along the whole front. The German advance from East Prussia has been stopped, owing largely to the food ! ing of rivers by the melting of snow, 1 while the attempt to cross the Bobr l river has been thWarted. A new bat tie line has thus been formed in the north, along which there is uninter- Iupted fighting.
 Austrian Division Repulsed.
 on the other hand, operations in the Carpathians are developing rapid ly and the Austrian right flank is now l threatened by the Russian offensive l movement. Near Krasne, thirty miles east of Lemberg, the Russians re- 1 pulsed an Austrian division, thus put 1 ting "a check on the movements of 1 Austro- German forces which were at tempting to concentrate at Stanislau. The situation in northern Poland,
 however, is regarded as of greatest l irnm edlate importance. The position of the Germans near Ossowetz is con- sidered critical, since they are under
 attack from the heavy guns of the
 fortress and are unable to bring up
 their own heavy artillery owing to the poor roads. A stubborn fight on
 the road to Lomza was won by the
 Russians with the result that the inn i portant point of Edvahno still re- l mains in their hands, The only To-
 cation in that general vicinity still in
 dispute is Przasnysz, fifty miles west 1 of I1omza According to Russian 1 .z4.,ee oficars the GermanS haua sra4l,