The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-12
ROLLING Up flank
AUSTRIANS ARE TRYING CHAN.
CELLORSYLLE TACTICS ;,
Big BATTLE GOING ON

Recent Success-Austrians Claim
Capture Of $4,000 Troops-Heavy
Artillery Used and Assists In Fore
ing Positions.
Vienna reports: The strategic
achievement Of rolling up hostile
battle front by thanking attack, Of
which Charlottesville is one Of the
few successful examples in modern
history, is in full progress IL West
Galicia- Favored by continued good
weather, mile after mile Of the Rus
sian Carpathian front has been rem
dered untenable by the steady, un-
checked Austro-German advance.
The Austrian cavalry and infantry
followed the Gorlice turnpike and al
ready have reached the Wysloka
river. The supporting artillery drop
ped shells on the road from Semi
gTod to Jasio, one Of the principal
lines of the retreat for the Russians
in the Dukla region.
The Russian forces have been In
full retreat since dawn OF May 5 and
are being closely followed by the Aus
trian Carpathian army, according to
official advices reaching here. More
than $4,000 prisoners already have
been captured by the Austrians in
West Galicia. -
Field Marshal Won Deetzendorf's
plan is working out with precise reg
ularity with respect to this section Of
the front. Headquarters express
confidence that the principal portion
Of the Russian army, under Cen. Rad
ko Dimitrief, which is attempting to
/ defend positions west Of LupkoW
pass, can not make good its retreat.
Detachments Of this army may
work their way ont, but it is declared
tho bulk of the army, with the heavy
artillery and baggage, can scarcely
avoid capture in view of Field Mar
shall Hotzendorff's rapid advance
through the Gorlice breach II the
lines.
Progress on the north half Of the
front is slower. The Russians are
holding desperately to Tarnow and
Withal mountain-a fortified crest
1900 to 1900 feet high between the
Biala and Dunajec riVers-to enable
them to get quantities Of stores -accu-
mulated behind Tarnow away and
cover the retirement of the armies to
the southwark.
The question as to whether the
Russians can make successful stand
on the line Of the Wisloka river is the
important one from the Austro-Ger-
man military viewpoint. If they can
not the breach in the Russian line is
considered important and the situa-
ton for the Russian Carpathian
armies undoubtedly would be criti-
cal.
The heaviest artillery was employ
ed in these opertions. The 42-centi-
metre mortars in action, however,
were not the noted German guns, but
of Austrian make. They were design
ed originally for coast defense pur-
poses, but have been found exceed
ingly valuable for land warfare. They
fire. projectiles $50 pounds heavier
than the German mortar sud are un-
derstood to be comparatively mobile
and quickly set up.
The effect Of these mortars during
the artillery preparations for battle
is described as overpowering. The
Austrians also are equipped with
highly effective smaller howitZers of
new type, which were put into the
field during the later stages Of the
war.
Vienna reports: A battle OF the
most desperate character continued
all night long and throughout We'd
nesday without break on the West
Galician front. The Austro-German
armies continued 10 gain ground OF
the southern section Of the battle
front, capturing position after posi-
ton from the Russians.
The fighting is taking place in the
difficult country Of mountain spurs
and foothills of the northern Carpa-
thians, and the Teuton armies are
gaining in spite Of stubborn, resist
ance. The Austro-Gerlnan forces now
are approaching the Wisloka river.
The city Of T-rnow still is in Rus
sian hands, although under Austro-
German fire. The fate Of Tarnow
and Of the Russian line northward to
the Vistula depends on the struggle
now waging for possession OF Wal
mountain, which towers to the south
Of Tarnow.
The Russians have fortified this
mountain until it has become verl-
table Gibraltar, but the archduke's
men are attacking it with desperate
valor, and are being well served by
their artillery. The struggle may go
down in history with that for Putilon
hill, to the south Of Mukden, In the
Russo-Japanese war. The Austro-
German advance has rendered long
section Of the Carpathian front un-
tenable to the Russians, who have re-
treated from positions in the Dukla
depression and eastward to Lllpkow
pass.
These successes are not being won
without hardest efforts. The Rus
sian forces quickly rallied from the
decentralization caused by Sundays
vehement onslaught on their Biala
line, and they now are fighting for
every foot of ground on their retreat.
All hills and bridges in the rear Of
the original Russian lines had been
fortified with triple rows Of trenches
in preparation for such an emergency,
and the Russians, with all the adVan-
tages of prepared trenches and gun
positions, are putting up a stubborn
resistance.
The success Of the Austro-Germans
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