Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-10
FIERCE BATTLE
WITH BAYONETS
IN CARPATHIANS
Petrograd Describes Ferocious
Charges as Being Without
Precedent in History.
GERMANS ARE FINALLY
REPULsED. SAY RUSSIANS
Kaiser's Forces Hurled at One
Position Twenty-Five Times
in Single Day.

By the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 10.-Details az
desperate fight in the Carpathian
mountains with ferocious bavonef
charges described as without prece-
dent In history, reached Petrograd
today.
According to these reports. repeated
German attacks were finally repuIsed
% the Russians, and the German
dead lay In great numbers In front
OF the Russian positions. The losses
are described as enormous.
Ine scene Of the fighting wan
Baligrod, thirty miles south az
sanok, in Galicia. It is claimed D.
the Russian staff that the Hunearisn
forces in the Carpathians have been
augmented by 100000 Germans. and
that German officers are now definite
" directing the Carpathian move
ment
The German plan, IN so far as II can
be observed here, now seems to be to
abandon gradually their aggressive
ness on the Bzura and in the vistula
region and to transfer their troops
to points where there Is greater op-
portunity OF piercing the Russian
defensive. The fighting in the Car
pathians would appear TO be a part
OF this procedure.
First Line Nearly Wiped out.
Concentrating their forces the night
Of February 7, the Germans early the
following morning began what doubt
less rapidly developed into one of the
hercest attacks in the history OF the
Carpathian campaign. With their
first line almost annihilated. the Ger
mans pushed forward their second
line. under the support Of heavy artiI-
lery, taking a strategic elevation
From this position they were almost
driven back by a Russian bayonet
charge. Attack and counter attack
followed in rapid succession, and
toward evening the Germans. ii great
numbers. seemed 10 be IN permanent
possession OF the heights.
| Then a general counter attack by
the Rnssiaas- resulted in two hours Of
i hand-to-hand fighting, which left the
snow-clad hiIIsfdes sfrewn with dead.
After most stubborn resistance the
German regiments finally were def
niteIy driven out A Russian officer
Claims personally to have counted up
ward of 1000 German dead before
the Russian positions on the hill He
described this engagement a. typical
Of the battles which are occurring
daily In the Carpathiar mountains.
The ofHeiaI ststemext.
The official statement follows:
"The Germans, who gradually had
been concentrating in East Prussia
with fresh troops. began a series OF
energetic reconnoisances, and on
February Z they opened offensive
operations, with considerable forces
in the district between Horzele and
Johannesburg. They undertook at the
same time active operations on both
wings of their front IN East Prussia
In the vicinity of Lasdehnen, TO the
east of Tilsit, we drove back a Ger
man attack and succeeded in almost
completely annihilating one OF ffae
German battalions opposed to US.
Following this encounter our cavalry
moved forward in the direction OF
sierpec, travelling over the road to
Rypin.
ION the left bank of the visfula,
during the day OF February s the
enemy showed no signs of activity.
Thousands Slain Mt Bsrjimsw.
Judging from the corpses aban-
QDnGQ 10y the 1cItLldDa III lIOHL o.
cur rasitIons they would appear to
have lost in dead and wounded sew
eral tens OF thousands Of men IN the
six days fighting in front OF BorJi-
NOV. Gouinine ana VIOLA Szydio-
wiecka.
an the Carpathians the fightina
continues in the vicinity OF Bartfeld
and Svidnik The enemy here un
dertook active operations. but they
did not thus continue. and they tinSl-
ly retired, leaving prisoners in our
hands In the vicinity of Moual
Loupkow we continued our pursuit.
OF the enemy, and in one day we cap
tured IS officers, $500 men and Is
machine guns.
German columns. having mad
their way over the Tukholka pass$
delivered during the day Of Februarq
no fewer than twenty-five vicsens
attacks upon certain heights In the
region OF Koziouwka, occupied bs
us. The Germans came forward to
this attack several ranks .ieep. pre-
senting a full front line.
Terrific Bsyonet Battle.
Under our violent crossfire the
Germans here twice took possessions
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