New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-02
RUSSIANS SEIZE
FORTIFIED LINES
IN CARPATHIANS
Drive Foe from Trenches
and Take Heights After
Desperate Battle.
SURROUND ENEMY
NEAR RUMANlA
Part of Invading Detachment OF
Austrians Annihilated-NeW
Offensive in Poland.

London. April 1.-THE Russians have
made notable advances in the Carpa-
thians, according to the official report
sent out from Petrograd tonight. The
column operating in the district OF
VOLTA and Lutoviska captured series
Of fortified heights in the principal
chain of the Beskide after a battle
which apparently has not been sur
passed in this war for ferocity.
The Russians advanced through snow
10 their waists in the face of a wither-
ing fire. cut their way through wire
entanglements and climbed almost per-
p-ndicular cliffs to drive the Austrians
from :heir trenches.
Second Desperate Charge.
In the ButovaKa region Of the Car
pathians the Aus.rians were driven
from their positions by charge that
in view of the nature of the country
appears to have been almost as desper-
ate.
The toll Of prisoners taken by the
Russians grows daily. On Tuesday, &C
cording TO an officia. announcement
from Petrograd, they captured close to
six thousand men.
The Austrian detachment which IN
vaded the Russian province OF bessa-
raba, on the Rumanian frontier. was
surrounded on March 80. and almost
exterminated. The Russians took J.
500 Of the survivors prisoners.
This Austrian incursion, Petrograd
dispatches say, was caused, not by any
ambitious tactics, nor even futile
desire to avenge Memel, but by. the
fact that these troops found them
selves cut off by the flooding of the
Dneister. with the Russians behind
them and an impossible river in front.
They took the line Of least resistance
and made their way into Russian ter
ritory.
New Move in Poland.
While advancing on the Carpathian
front, the Russians have also begun a
new offensive in Central Poland. The
German official reports for the last two
d.ys have noted attempts of the Rus
sian troops to resume the offensive on
the Rawka River, while Vienna to-
night reports severe attack by the
Russians in the vicinity of the Pillca
River, which they claim to have re-
pulsed.
These movements doubtless have been
undertaken to prevent the Austrians
and Germans from sending reinforce
ments from this front to the armies
which are trying to hold the Carpa.
THAN passes against the onslaught OF
the Russians.
The German official report to-day
makes the statement that in the
month of March the German eastern
army took $500 Russian prisoners,
including officers and soldiers, and
captured also nine cannon and sixty
one machine guns.
Ossowetz Siege Abandoned.
The German bombardment of the
Russian positions at Ossowetz. In Rus-
sian Poland. has been definitely aban-
doned, according TO semioficial dis
patches from Petrograd.
For some days past the German ar
tillery fire on Ossowetz has been weak
ened, and on March so it was discon-
tinued. The cessation of these opera
tons is regarded in Petrograd as an
indication of the end of the German
offensive movement in the north. The
argument is advi ed that in abandon
ing the siege of { owetz the Germans
will appear to hav. given up the hope
of. establishing connections between
their forces to the west of the Niemen
and those north of the Narew With
out the possession of Ossowetz to pro-
tect their tanks the advance of either
one of these German armies is re-
garded here as practically impossible.
The Notifications of Ossowetz are
reported to have suffered little from
the protracted German bombardment.