New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
Violent Counter Attacks
Delivered in Region
of JarOSlav.
TENS OF THOUSANDS
OF CAPTIVES TAKEN
Stats of Opposing Armies Claim
Seizure of Enormous Mum. BE-
Der of Men.

London, May PA comparison OF
the official reports issued to-day in
Petrograd and Vienna indicates that
the Austro-German armies along the
San in the vicinity of Przemysl have
met a resistance which has consider
ably retarded their advance. The Rus
SLAMS. driven from Sieniswa, TO the
north of Jaroslau. and forced back
across the San. evidently are standing
at bay and delivering desperate counter
attacks from time TO time.
The War Office statements of the
Russians. Germans and Austrians lay
particular stress on the extent OF the
losses sustained by the opposing army,
The Vienna official communique
reads:
1.-THE battles along the front in mid
die Galicla continue. On that part OF
the San running downward from
Sieniawa the Russian detachments still
holding the west bank were thrown
back. East of Jaroslau the Teuton
allies vIcIously repulsed isolated at
tacks of strong enemy forces. Inc
number of prisoners taken by US Is
continually increasing.
Storm Position at Night.
an stubborn night battles our troops
stormed the Russian position east OF
Drohobycz and captured Neudorf, tax
ing / 500 prisoners.
"The Russian counter attack across
the Dniester. in East Galicia, has come
TO a standstill on the Pruth line. Hos
tile efforts to break through our line
near Kolomea failed. All attacks
against this bridge head were repulsed
with most severe enemy losses.
an the Sighting in the billy country
Of Kielce, which still continues at some
points. we have captured 1000 prison
ers since May l6. The total number OF
prisoners in our hands now amounts
TO $4,000"
Berlin has Issued the following official
version of the fighting:
prisoners were taken yesterday east
Of Jaroslau who were not equipped WIN
rifles but with iron clubs.
"Since May / 100000 prisoners, sew
enty-two cannon and 253 machine guns
have been captured by the army under
General Mackensen and the other Ger
man troops fighting in the Austria IL un
garian army. These figures are includ-
ed in the total figures already pub
lished."
10000 Captives Daily.
The Petrograd official statement, is
sued here to-day, says:
ION the left of the Vistula we con
tinue to press the enemy successfully
in the region south of the railway pc
tween Radon and Kielce. and have al
ready repulsed him from Opatow and
on the front Sloupian-N oveli-Lagow.
"On the Galician front the battle
continued on the 10th with great fe-
rocity. Between the Vistula and Pre-
mvsl the enemy extended themselves
somewhat on the right bank of the
San. in the centre of the region OF
Sieniawa. but on two TANKS in the d.
rection of the Vistula between Tar
nobrzeg and Ulanof and in the dlrec-
ton of Przemysl, near Tytchenpy' we
realized important successes IN pattle
on the left of the San.
"In the fighting of the last three
weeks. since the beginning of the OPP
erations of the enemy in the Carpatno1
ians their losses on May 10, IL and IL
and May 10, during which the hgnting
lost some of its intensity. averaged lO,-
900 a day. On the other seventeen Gays
they were much heavier. especially dur
ing the period between May 10 and May
10. when they amounted 10 several tens
of thousands daily. The enemys tota1
losses during this period, including Az
900 prisoners captured by US. undouot-
edly reached to one-fourth or perhaps
one-third of their total strength.
"The enemy left behind in old upo-
sitions several hundred guns. ms
circumstance has helped 10 equalize the
odds. which were in favor OF the
enemy"
Shells Fired by Millions,
The firing of between two and three
million Austrian and German shells on
the comparatively short front north OF
Przemysl in Galicia gives some idea
tho extreme violence of the operations
along the San River front, by means
OF which the Germans hope to estab
lish themselves firmly on the right
bank of the river. Into this small area
the Germans are said to have crowded
four thousand field guns in the closest
formation ever seen in battle being
three times the normal number OF guns
for such an extent OF territory.
Four DAYS of this terrific artillery
FIRE enabled the Germans 10 occupy on
the right bank of the San twenty miles
of the l00-mile course of the river be-
tween Przemsyl and Sandomir. The
compactness and consequent immobillty
of the heavy German formation, while
successful in forcinc the San between
Jaroslau and Lezochov. is said by Rus
sian army officers, according to Petro-
grad dispatches, to have prevented the
Germans from executing maneuvres
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