South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-07
TARNOW TAKEN BY
AUSTRO-G GERMANS,
VIENNA REPORTS
Cars Army Battles Desperate
Iy But is Forced to Retreat
to Second Line-50,000 are
Made Prisoners.

Tarnow. the Galician town at which
the Russians had established a great
military base for the drive on CracOw.
has been captured by the Austrians
and Germans, according 10 an official
statement issued at Vienna last night.
The city fell into the hands OF an
Austro-German army at 10 CLOCK
yesterday morning, the Austrian war
office announces.
Not only TarnOw. but all the Rus
slams positions on the heights east OF
Dunajec and Biala rivers have been
taken by the TeutOnic allies. The last
Russian was driven from the trenches
they had so stubbOrnly defended at
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Dis
patches received in London from Vi
emma state that the Austro German
forces operating in the vicinity of
Dukla pass have cut off the Russian
armies i'm the Dukla region.
From Bukowina TO the Baltic the
Germans and Austrians are engaged in
the greatest offensive movement yet
attempted in this greatest Of all wars.
Battling desperately. but retreating
steadily, the Russians in western Ga
licia have fallen back 10 their second
line Of defensive positions.
In the meanwhile. according TO
claims from both Vienna and Berlin,
strong Russian forces I'm the Beskids
are menaced on the flank by German
army under Gen. Marwitz, cooperating
with strong AustrO- Hungarian
force. And heavy TeutOn armies have,
according to the Austrian war office,
penetrated the Dukla and JaslO re-
giOns
In the lighting in the Beskids dis
patches from both Berlin and Vienna
state that the Russians are being driv-
en- from LupkOW pass. The Austro-
Germans also have obtained, they
claim. a strong foOthold in the Dukla
pass, and are battling desperately 10
press their advantage.
Russ Admit loss.
The Russians admit falling back to
their second line. but Petrograd de-
clares the Berlin and Vienna reports
10 be greatly exaggerated"
The hottest lighting is proceeding
in the region east of Tarnow and in
the Beskid mountains. Day and night
the Teutons and Muscovites are at
death grips. During the Russian re-
treat in western Galicia the Germans
report that they and their allies have
taken 10000 prisoners. Vienna as
serts that the number is between 3d.
600 and $4,000 and that the third
Russian army faces humiliation.
Long range guns are reducing Grod-
no TO ruins, according to German re-
ports. The Austrians already have
crossed the WislOka river which but
a few days ago formed part Of the
Russian line.
Meanwhile furious fighting in which
both sides claim successes, is proceed
ing in the region of Ypres. The Ber-
lin official statement reports the cap
ture of Van Hope and another farm
near the YpreS- Messines railway Off
setting this is the official report of
IVfo1I- MarehaI Cir Tphp 81,
states that the British have recaptured
some of their lost trenches on hill
No. 60. Fighting. both sides state, is
proceeding steadily.
Allies Are Halted.
BY land and sea the allied forces
appear TO have been brought to a halt
in the DardanelleS operations. Con-
stantinOple reports that the entire Gal
lipoli peninsula is still in the military
control of the Turks and that the
Franco British forces are cooped up
and unable 10 move from their land
ing places. Their warships, the Otto
mans claim, are unable to silence
the terrific return fire of the defend
ing fOrtresses.
Premier Asquith. while expressing
confidence, admitted in the house of
commons yesterday that the allied
losses at the Dardanelles had been
huge. and reported no noteworthy
gains.
japan has sent an ultimatum to
China and by Sunday Pekin must say
whether the land of the dragon is to
fight a losing fight against an inn
measureably better prepared foe. or
become a vassal nation. Japan. in
her ultimatum demands that China
bow to every proposal made by Toxic
in her recent negotiations"
Hopes for Neutrality.
Dispatches from Rome indicate that
the crisis is not yet at hand in the
AustrC- Italian negotiations and that
there is still hope for Italy's cOntin-
ued neutrality. An Important COM
municatiOn from Vienna Is on its way
TO Rome and IL Is rumored that Aus