The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-07
SUPERIOR CANNON
GAVE VICTORY TO
GERMAN|C ALLIES
Russia Prepares for Terrific
Defense of Tarnow Against
Advancing Enemy
Italy Now Ready
For Intervention
Arrangements Complete. Il ID
Declared. for Rome to Move.
Large Claims Made by Ber-
lin Officials

London. May 6.--The great
force of the AusfrO-G German dash
south and east of Cracow. In
which the Russian line between
the upper vistula and the Carr
pathians was hurled back some
twenty miles, seems to have spent
itself temporarily at least. In
any event. Berlin has not issued
any claims today Comparable i
with those of Wednesday and
Tuesday, and today's statement
from Petrograd IL more assured
I'm It's tone than was the case
yesterday.
Apparently the two armies are a.
a deadlock for the moment, the Rus
sian forces holding fast In the faoe
of threatening disaster. the Austro@
German armies vainIy trying to add
more ground to the advance already
made. Tarnow is still In Russian
hands, though there seems no Doubt
tonic allies who have brushed far to
the east, and are now. says Berlin.
pushing their enemy back against
the Wiloka River.
Showing Great Strength.
The Austrian offensive at Lupkow
Pass and at TTzok Pass. little further.
east. Is meantime developing with
great strength. Here In undoubtedly
the main endeavor to loosen the Rus
sian grip in the entrances to the Hun
garian plain mt the very moment when
the Russians are being forced To
evacuate their hold in Dukla Pass.
and thus by a concerted movement
to throw tho Russian line well back
from the Carpathian mountains.
The German war ONCE report a.
serts that the prisoners made now
mum Der 10000.
While asphyxiating gas has been
chiefly responsible for the recent Ger
man successes in Flanders, superiority
of artillery. 1t would appear. has been
the Austro- German chief weapon Of
offense In Gaficia. Petrograd today
admits that the supreme character 81
sian troops has been the cause Of very
heavy losses. Their reports say that
the famous 4s-centimetre gun Of thS
Krupps is performing great destruc-
ton In this campaign. At least. IL
seems true that the heavy Russian
guns. such as they are, have not
proved equal to the weapons used by
the Austro-German forces.
Seem to Minimize Claim.
The reports from all sources today
seem to minimize the extent of the
1t remains true that Germany and her
Austrian ally are making violent
endeavor to dislodge the Russians In
the Carpathians. Tonight a crisis
seems to have been reached; the en-
deavor will probably be marked by
failure or success in the next few
days.
To q great extent, according to
Vienna dispatches. the fate of Tarnow
and the Russian line northward to
the yistula. depends on the struggle
now waging for possession of Wal
which towers to the south
of the city, and has been strongly
fortified by the Russians. Some of,
the dispatches even compare the bat
tie. in progress there to the fight for
Putiloff hill. near Mukden, In the
war.
South OF Tarnow, where the Austrc-j
German drive met with it's greatest
success, a considerable section Of the
Russian front in the Carpathians has
been rendered untenable. In the
DukIa depression the Russians all
ready have begun a retreat. and the
CONTINUED on Second paxeo