Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-02-17
T|EUTONS R|:0UT RUSS
100000 OF CZAR'S TROOPS ABAN
DON CAPITAL OF BUkoWlNA
5z5 al vi. IN WILD FLIGHT.
$4,000 LOST IN PoLAND7
Russian General Staff at Petroorad
Tells Of Bloody Struggle In Which
Slain Are Numbered by Tens Of
Thousands-Galns Are Claimed.

Berlin, Feb. 1.-THE Russians have
been routed in Bukowina in the great
est victory yet won in any theater OF
the war. Czernowitz, capital of Blu
kowina, 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. y, *
4 "The Russians estimate that the
Germans lost $4,000 men in the battles
! that ended Sunday" says dispatch
received in London from the Petro
grad correspondent of the Star. s b.
Details OF a desperate fight in the
Carpathian mountains with ferocious
bayonet charges described as without
precedent in history reached Petro
grad on Wednesday. -. u.
According to these reports, repeat
ed German attacks were finally re
j pulsed by the Russians and the Ger
man dead lay in great numbers IN
front Of the Russian positions. The
q losses are described as enormous.
The scene OF the fighting was Bali
Z grod, 80 miles south =, Of Sanok, IN
e Galicia. It Is claimed by the Russian
i stan that the Hungarian forces In the
: Carpathians have been augmented by
800, 900 Germans and that German Of
fcers are now definitely directing the
Carpathian movement. s,E5is.5
III; The report OF the general staff fol
lows: 555sg;t y .l.;3 -; -.
Ut 1.-THE Germans have been gradually
Concentrating in East Prussia. With
their fresh troops they have been
making reconnaissances in force and
on, Sunday they passed to the often
sive with large forces in the sectors
Y OF Gorzele and JOHANNESBURG They
undertook active simultaneous opera
4 lions 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 d.
Z rection of Sierpec. 5 81.
= 4 / ~ Judging from the corpses aban
.doned by the Germans in front Of oul
positions, they would appear to have
/ lost in dead and wounded several
tens OF thousands of men in the sis
days fighting in front Of Borjimow
i Goumine and VIOLA Szydlowiecka. !
4 Tn the Carpathians fighting contin
ues. III. } y o. IS. :. y Z:
4 / e ""The Germans, having crossed
5Tucholka pass, made on Sunday 2:
I violent attacks against the heights
3. In the region Of Koziowa, which hat
been occupied by us. The German
attacked In mass formation severa
\ ranks deep under " our violent eros
$fire. The enemy twice seized one 9
THE heights, but was dislodged by gu
Infantry. y The losses suffered by tn
\ Germans here were excessive ant
without any precedent in history Thu
enemy's attack in the region * o.
Wyszkow were also repulsed.
1 al a Later, In order, to attack the posi-
!. lions at Kosiowa, the Germans begal
to concentrate again. During thu
night of Sunday they opened an II
s resfstible offensive and this continued
S during the next morning. ' Z
Towards evening the Germans, at
lacking In great strength, captured
/ our highest position and were onl!
& dislodged after a desperate fight. Al
ri the mountain slopes were Uttered will
German dead. In front of one Of ou
a battalions more than a thousand deat
II bodies were counted" a. e.