South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
Activity of Airmen in Eastern
Theater Unprecedented, 180
Bombs Being Dropped Upon
Some Communities.
BRITISH INOCULATED BY
AUSTRIAN DOCTORS DIE
Chancellor Lloyd George Ex-
peCted to InterpeIate Gov
ernment on Reported Incl
dent-0ffiCerS Go to Front.

PETROGRAD. April Il. - While
violent firhting continues between the
Russian and the AustrO-German ar
mics in the Carpathians, the German
army In Poland near the Narew river
has developed aerial activity on
scale hitherto unknown in the eastern
theater Of war.
in an official statement issued today
the Russian war office announces that
whole hotillas Of German flying ma
chimes are bonn harding the towns and
villages in the Russian lines and on
some Of the communities as many as
$50 bombs were dropped in a single
attack.
Bad roads and melting snow are
hindering troop movements. The
Dneister river is i'm flood, having risen
] feet.
OFFICIAL Statement.
This official statement follows:
In Galicia. east of the region OF
Cerzkovitze (Csernowitz) our recon-
uoitering parties on April IA forced
their way through the enemy's wire
barrier by a bayonet charge. The
Austrians were dislodged from two
lines of trenches. During the action
The enemy lost heavily and we cap
turcd three officers and 5S men.
In the Carpathians regiments OF
several divisions Of cavalry have given
ND their horses for use in the artll-
lery The cavalrymen have been con-
Verted into infantrymen, but are hln-
dered in their operations by the fact
that there are no bayOnets on their
Carbines
rains during the past few days
have caused the snow TO melt. The
river Dneister has risen L feet and
mountain streams have become tor
rents
Activity Of the enemy's aerOplanes
rff
The regions of OstrOlenka. NoVOgrad
and CzennanoG. Hostile machines Hy-
ing in notillas throw as many as 1SV
bombs upon a town or village IN
single raid. but the damage done is
inconseauential our aviators have
repIied hut are less eXtravagant in
their use of ammunition than the Ger
mans However. we use bombs or
higher pOWer than the enemy
Captured 1.OfO Guns.
The total number OF Austrian guns
captured at PrZemysl is now l'VIV' 1t
IS thought. however. that dozens more
will be found a majority or the guns
taken bv the Russians there are
1,ronze They include 2S5 fortress
cannon. s5e field pieces and % modern
ouick firing guns Among the can
non of heavier calibre were four IL
inc hOWitZerS ana elsul -f-SSlAN4Al4N
ter hOwitzers.
..-rbe fortress at Przemysl possessed
1f6 armored defensive works, lncluu-
ing as steel turrets. The guns IN
these works varied in size from nelo
,.aIibre 10 six inches. Forty-eight OF
the armored defensive works were tor
the defense of the Austrian TANKS ana
% are for the defense or the nodls'
We caDtured important stores or rlhes
md cartridges In addition we TOOK
q great quantity of shells and go IRON
guns. a majority OF Whlch were III
~ n
models.
LONDON. April 17.-That Austrian
doctors were allowed TO inOculate
Tritish soldiers against typhoid and
several died as a result or the opera
tfO0 was the sensational information
which came 10 light here today II
was stated on good authority that TO-
dav David Lloyd George, chancellor
of the exchequer. would interpellate
the government on this matter in par
lament on Tuesday, asked whether
the Austrian doctors had been court
unartiallcd and sentenced 10 imprison-
ment
dred men OF a British cavalry reSl-
unent were inOculated.
AMSTERDAM. April 17.-German
fficers in the western theater Of war;
are beinE rushed 10 the eastern front
m was reported from Iiege today that
so German officers have just passed
through there enroute from France TO
Galicia. where they will join the Aus
frO-Geruan armies fighting against
the Russians in the Carpathians. lt|
4s likely that the future direction OF
tho Austrian, as well as the German
armies in the eastern theater Will fall
10 German officers
According 10 reliable reports I'm
peror william has ordered the prin-
cinaI German generals and a few OF
the high Austrian commanders tol
meet him in a grand conference TO
discuss the suuFner campaign in Po-
land and Galicia- The meeting Is eX-
pected to be held in the middle of
next week