The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-03
RUSSIANS ON OFFENSIVE
ALONG ENTIRE FRONT
CONCENTRATE LARGE ARMY
AT FINLAND TO PREVENT
LANDING OF GERMANS.
Five More Vessels Sunk by Ger
man Submarines-Austrian Army
Division Annihilated.

LONDON. April ?. 1905 y. m.-Thc
russians now are on the defensive
along the whole OF their front. from
the Baltic sea to the Rumanian boruer
and in the Caucasus. and. according
TO Stockholm dispatch. they have
concentrated an enormous number or
soldiers on the coast OF Finland 20 pre-
vent any attempt by the Germans TO
land there.
All the Russian advances. according
TO Petrograd advices. are proceeding
with success. The Russian OFFICIAL re-
port issued tonight makes the claim
that the Germans in north Poland are
being pushed back TO the east Prus-
sian border. and that in the Carpath-
ians between the Lupkow and Uzsok
passes the Russians have captured
still another strongly fortified ridge
overcoming in doing so almost insur-
mountable difficulties. such as the
scaling OF steep ice-covered hills ana
penetrating clearly arranged barbed
wire and timber obstructions.
The Russians also have taken tho
louensive against the Germans In the
region OF koziouwka, near Uzsok pass,
which long has been launching attacks
against the Russian position. In that
district large number of prisoners
is reported TO have been captured.
Austrians Claim Success.
Against these reports OF Russian
successes, the Austrians make the
claim that they have repulsed all the
Russian attacks in tn Beskid range or
mountains. further east.
The Russians declare they have sue
cessfully countered an Austrian raid
into Bessarabia, near Chotin. The re-
ports say that units OF the AZ honycd
division of the Austrian army, whicn
undertook this diversion were virtually
annihilated and that over 1000 OF The
survivors were captured
II Is declared that the Turks have
now been entirely cleared out of trans.
Caucasia and that the Russians hold
the turkish Black sea coast az far as
} Arkhave.
} On the western front, the battles
arc. OF a scattered nature. Beyond NJ
tillery engagements. the only 'fyhtine
That has taken place Is In the forest oi
lie Pretre, west OF Pont-a- -Mouason
where the French are trying 20 reach
: the roads leading from St MIhiel 10
Metz and to the south OF Peronne,
where the French also are on the Of.
, fensive.
Steamers Sunk.
| During the last twenty-four hours
4 news has been received In London OF
the sinking OF the British steamer
Eston formerly the Southpoint), the
Norwegian bark Nor and three British
trawlers by a German submarine, and
OF the Dutch steamer Schieland, pre-.
sumably by a mine. Seven sailors OF
the Schieland are missing.
The sinking OF the trawlers, Il Is al.
legged here. Ia a violation OF The Hague
convention OF 1907, which expressly
exempts fishing vessels from molesta-
tion.
In connection with the submarine
warfare, the German protest II made
through the United States, against the
refusal OF Great Britain to recognize
nj ..N
gagged In attacks on merchant ships as
prisoners of war and the British for
eign secretary's reply thereto, are
creating a lot OF interest in London
. The British reply declared that while
over a thousand sailors belonging 20
varships destroyed by British men-of-
war had been rescued by the victors,
not a single British sailor had been
picked up by the Germans when they
were successful.