Middletown transcript., 1915-04-03
KAISER CALLS
COUNCIL OF WAR
Conference With War Leaders
TO Plan Next Move.
OssOWETz SIEGE AT END
ATTEMPT To Reduce Fortress Failure.
Troops Which 5esieged PermysI
Now Taking Part In Bat
ties In Carpathians.

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the military field--because some stroke
either in the east or the west is ex-
pected before the Allies attempt their
spring advance---is at present the chief
subject of speculation and conjecture.
According to reports reaching here
from Petrograd, the German Emperor
is now at Berlin holding war coun-
ell with Field Marshal Won der Goltz,
the German military commander of
Constantinople, and other leaders, and
is planning q new campaign to offset
the fall of Permysl and meet the situa-
ton in the Dardanelles.
ossowetz Siege Abandoned.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from it's correspondent at Petrograd
saws it is stated in well-informed quar-
ters at the Russian capital that the
operations of the Germans against
Ossowetz may now be considered as
at an end. Having failed to obtain
any results, they have abandoned the
undertaking. The correspondent adds:
"In this way the whole purpose of
their dash into Russian territory has
been frustrated, as everywhere be-
tween the Niemen and the Bobr they
have failed to obtain substantial sue
cesses.
Between the Skwa and the Oryzc
the Russians have now occupied fresh
positions. The battles in this region
have been very stubborn. This re,
suits from the large number of troops
concentrated there, which are far in
excess OF the normal strength for
operations on a front of such width"
Crisis In carpathians.
A Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam
says that Major Moraht, the military
expert, in dispatch from Austrian
headquarters to the Berlin Tageblatt
attaches great Importance to the pres
ent fighting in the Carpathians, Major
Moraht says;
without going so far as to consider
that the result of the entire war. or
even the eastern campaign, depends
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less victory here will indubitably exer-
else a strong effect on the entire situa-
ton. Nor can we completely exclude
the possibility that the political situa-
tion may be affected in one way or an
other. Russia, in any case, had pOliti.
cal reasons in choosing precisely this
ground for decisive battle. This is
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also of the Vienna press.
1.-THE supreme army command has
grounds enough for employing all dis
possible forces to avert a Russian in
terruption into the Hungarian plain"
Carnage In AIsace.
Fighting has been resumed with
great vigor on the entire western
front, but with little result which af
fects the general military situation.
The carnage on the slopes of the
heights in Alsace has been terrific
The official communiQue states thai
700 bodies of Germans were counted
on the battlefield at Hartmanssweiler
Kopf A Geneva dispatch says tbs
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ruary Is has cost the Kaiser 5000 il
killed alone.
A report from Liege states tina
many trains laden with guns and mum
tions have passed through there Ell
route to Courtrai Heavy German re
Inducements are arriving daily a
Ghent.
The Germans are reported to e.
transporting to the front a new boml
thrower, capable of hurting high-ez
plosive bomb a distance of 500 yards