Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-06-03
RUSSIANS INFLICT
ENORMOUS LOSSES
Teutonic Allies Still on Offensive
Along the 800-MiIe
Front.
TWO PRINCES NEAR CAPTURE
Grand Duke Nicholas Reports the. En-
emy RepuIsed Along Whole Front
With Great Losses-Battle on
Banks of San Continues.

Petrograd, May 29.-Russian troops
have recaptured Urumiah, the impor-
tant city of Persian Armenia which
was occupied by the Turks several
months ago.
BY FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
International News Service Correspondent.
Petrograd, May 20. - Though
forced to remain on the defensive in
Galicia, the Russians are inficting tre-
mendous losses on the Austro-German
armies, according to the latest official
reports received by the war Office.
An official statement shows that the
Teutonic allies are still on the often
sive along the SO0-mile front from the
Baltic to Bukowina.
On the Bobr river front the Germans
are using asphyxiating bombs to help
their operations. On the San front
and between the Dniester marshes in
Galicia the titanic struggle between
the Russians and Teutons continues.
Pay Heavily for Successes.
The Austro-Germans have paid heav-
lily for their successes in Galicia. Ac-
cording to estimates made here the
Germans alone lost 100000 men in
western Galicia. The Austrian losses
are believed to have been much heav-
Ter.
A dispatch to the Bourse Gazette
from Kovno states that Prince
Joachim, son of the kaiser, and Prince
Leopold of Lippe escaped capture by
q narrow margin when Russian in
fantry stormed at night a village held
by the Germans in the Shawl region.
The two princes fled in their automo-
bile, but three membres of their staff
were captured.
The latest reports from Grand Duke
Nicholas, the Russian commander in
chief, follows:
rOnr troops engaged the enemy sue
cessfully in the region of Shawl. We
made progress southwest of the Muir
awjewo-Shavli line, as we'll as on the
lower Dubissa, repulsing the enemy's
offensive near Rossijeny.
in Poland, on the Bobr front, dur
ing the night of May 1926 the enemy
bombarded with his heavy artillery
the region of the fortress of 0sso-
wiec. East of Jedwabno he attempt.
ed fruitless offensive under cover
OF asphyxiating gas.
I'm several sectors on the river
Narew front there was heavy artillery
and rife firing.
"on the left bank of the Vistula, on
the Bzura front, our light infantry
charged the enemy. They bayoneted
about sixty men in a successful sliir'
mish with German pickets. The sur.
vivors were taken prisoners.
''In the direction Of Opatow (south.
west of Ivangorod) the enemy has be-
gun attacks with great forces.
Enemy Repulsed Everywhere.
''In Galicia, on May 2S and the night
of May 1926 the enemy delivered at
tacks along our whole front between
the upper Vistula and the left bank
OF the San. He was repulsed every
where with great losses.
THE very stubborn battle on the
banks of the San between Przemy5
and Lubsczowka river, as well as be
tween Przemysl and the great marshes
OF the Dniester continues with great
intensity.
IN the region beyond the Dpiestel
the enemy on May 25 opened deter
mined offensive along the whole from
from the great marshes of the Dnies
ter to Doline. In the course of this
conflict on the following day the en-
emy suffered numerous losses. No
where was he successful.
Hostile elements which pierced tht
line between our points of supper
near Stryj were destroyed by our al
tillery fire.