New Britain herald., 1915-03-31
RUSSIANS ANN|H|LA1f
  ENTIRE DIVISIONS OF GERMANS IN POLAND
Austrjans Lose l8,000 in North- eastern Hungary-- --4,00O Of Them
 SIaia in an Hour.
kAISfR'S FORCES REPULSf
 FRENCH ATTACKS IN WEST

fkfhCn AIlACkS IN m[Sl Cars Troops in Turkish Armenia
 Capture Town of Artvin-Threa
 Persons Killed During Two Attacks
 Upon Russian Port of ibau by
 German Warships-AIlied Fleet
 Bombarding Dardanelles Villages.
 A defeat of German forces in northern Poland, attended with un- usually heavy losses, is reported un- officially from Petrograd. This in- ; formation is to the effect that the Ger mans fell back in the N1emen River district, expecting that the Russians would pursue them and be crushed by a fanking movement. Petrograd states that the maneuvers failed, and that "entire divisions of Germans, themselves caught in a trap, were an- initiated. The German official state ment of today, while making no speci- fic reference to such an engageme ent, announced that the Russians have suffered reversals at various points near the Prussian frontier.
 Concerning the western front, the Berlin communication states that French assaults were beaten back with heavy losses to the attacking forces. The French war office says the situation is unchanged.
 Austrians Lose 18,OGO Men.
 After brief lull in the fight for possession of Dukla Pass, in the Car pathians, the Russians have brought up endorsements and resumed the attack At Vienna it is said that the Russians have not been able to gain their objective at any poino along the Carpathian front for the invasion of Hungary, and that they were defeated in BukoWina yesterday. Despatches to Swiss newspapers, however, say that the Austrians have -.sufleEed enormous losses in northeastern Hun-e gary. It is estimated that they lost 1S,000 men on Sunday, and the Rus- sians are credited with ann1nilating a column of 4,OOO Austrians in an hour.
 Daring German Vancouver.
 Petrograd, Russia, March 31, 11:30 .. m., via London, 2:30 D. m.-The long silence in Petrograd concerning the operations the German front was broken today by an authentic report of a daring German maneuver In the Niemen river district, which, according to this information, began abortively and ended in failure.
 The gradual withdrawal of the cen- tral part of their Tenth army, a move which was expected to draw all the Russian forces into the advance be- tween Suwalki and Ka1varia, was to l1- fo11 interpretations of the German plan, by a quick encircling movement of their left flank from the vicinity of Lake Dusa and Lake Nimno to the rear. This, it was planned, would cut off the retreat of the advancing Russians and at the same time they would be outfanked.
 German Divisions Annihilatcd. I Overzeal to achieve this aim led the German generals to throw a large part of their twenty first army corps, with three reserve regiments amount ing in all to an entire corps, across the melting ice of Lake Dusa before the middle group of the Russian forces had advanced sufficiently to as sure the success of the proposed en- circling maneuver. Having sur
 
 Station of these troops over weak ice, the Germans discovered, according t.. the reports coming to Petrograd, that their movement was premature, and in a desperate effort to retrace their steps they were met by a fierce Rus Sian onslaught. According to their account of this fighting, the Russians annihilated entire divisions of the Germans.
 At other points along the German front isolated engagements continue but they are without strategic signi- ficance.
 Austrians Lose 1S.OOO.
 Geneva, via Paris, March 31, 6:15 a. n.-Austrlan losses in LNutta Val ley and the Province of Bereg (north- east Hungary on the day of March 2S, are estimated at 5000, according to despatches received by Swiss newspapers These advices state that a column of 4,0OO Austrians was an- ' initiated in less than an hour during q desperate action in Bereg Province, six miles north of Vereczke. Aus trian troops in this territory are re- ported to be demoralized as the result 2 of their enormous losses.
 German Official Report. : < Berlin, March 31.> by Wireless to 5ayville, N. Y.-At the war office to- day the following announcement was made:
 West of Pont-A- Mousson French attacks near and east of Regnieville and in the Forest of LePretre were repulsed. The enemy sustained
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