Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-04
Berlin and Vienna Officially
Report That Crushing Blow
Has Been Dealt Cars
Forces in West GaliCla,
EVENT Is CELEBRATED
BY WILD ENTHUSIASM
Western Theaier Is Compare
lively Quiet but British
Claim TO Have Repulsed At
tackS on Hill No. 60,
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London. May (10.35 y. m.)---Ac-
cordng to the official statements
both OF Berlin and Vienna, the Ger
man and Austrian arms have achieved
notable victory In West Galicia.
smashing the entire Russian center
along front OF many miles, or. al
Berlin roughly puts II. across the
whole western tip of Galicia, from
near the Hugarian border 10 the point
where the river Dunajec joins the Wis.,
tnla. which Is right az the frontier OF
Poland.
Though the eight thousand prison
ers whom the Teutonic allies say they
have taken does not compare with the
number which some of Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg's rushes netted him
In the north, the achievement. IL sub
sequent reports bear IL out, win mean
at least a temporary check 10 tho Rus
sian forces. which have been ham
mering their way westward since the
fall of PrzemysI
Berlin is celebrating the victory to-
night as Is the custom. though II is
admitted that the flags have been
flown before full details are at hand
British Keep HilI No. 80.
England and France make no claim
TO any gains In the west. the Britis'
contentlng themselves with saying III
the German attacks on the scar
hill No. 60. In Flanders have
beaten back. The French co.
this The Germans maintair
they are pushing forward to the
west of Ypres and toward 81
village, which they captured att
attack following their first exteiis.
use Of gas. but which they were foToeAs.
to Yield under counter-attacks.
In the fighting in the Baltic pro-
vinces, also Berlin finds cause to re-
loice. Rejecting the Russian conten-
tion that Il Is only sporadic cavalry
raid, Berlin wireless comment re-
ceived tonight says II seriously threat
ems the Russian right. and the fact
that troops could be moved SO far
northeast before they encountered re-
sistance lis considered Il reflection or
the Russian intelligence system.
So far as claims go. II was an Aug
tro-German day. a number of ves-
sells, neutral and otherwise. fell vic
tim to German submarines, Norway
being a particularly heavy loser.
Campaign Seriously Affected.
II the Austro-German contentious
relative to the Galician situation are
correct. IN the opinion of some of the
English military writer's Ii Will mean
that tho whole Russian campaign In
the Carpathlans iS seriously affected,
making extremely precarious the po-
sition of the Russian troops pressing
down the southern slopes toward the
plains of Hungary.
The line between the Vtstula and
The Hungarian frontier was about
forty miles east of Cracow. Tho Aus
ro-Germans have been defending 1t
ever since the beginning
Df the Carpathian fighting.
The general British comment is
somewhat reserved pending the Pe-
rograd version of the operations.
Beyond the admission In the Petro-
'rad official communication that a
desperate battle has been engaged In
lnce last Saturday night on the
rOnt from the lower Nida river to
he Carpathian mountains, no furth-
II news has come through concern
ng the fighting in which both Berlin
nd Vienna claim a victory
The reticence OF the Russian off
,ial communication though 1t may
Indicate that the battle Is still un-
inished, is considered In military cir
les here to give considerable color
0 the Teutonic claims. at least to the
lain OF Vienna, which does not
lace victory so high as does the Ger
nan communication.
If the Austro-German claims are
orrect. according to the military OBJ
ervors. the Russian right flank is
Il danger of developments, the Rus
ian flank Is threatened by strong
.ustro-German forces. and on the
try -Munkacs line the position is so
angcrous as to be likely TO involve
general retreat