New Britain herald., 1915-03-24
BRITISH A|RMEN RAID GERMAN SUBMARINE
 PLANT IN BELGIUM
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 Fierce Battle Raging.
 Berlin, March "A, by Wireless telegraphy to Sayville, N. Y.-Reports from the Carpathian Mountains in dicate that one of the greatest and most sanguinary battles of the cam paign is now raging. A special cor respondent of the Lokal Anzeiger telegraphs:
 ''The great bloody battle Is now in full swing in the Carpathiais. It has not reached 8 point where a definite Judgment can be passed on the events at any point The conflict is likely to he waged some days yet, with equal ferceness on both sides.
 Przemysl Army Expected.
 "The next few days probably will see the released Przemysl investment army engaged in this struggle.
 "Conditions to the north of the Vistula river and along the Bug and Narew Line appear to have changed little or not at all recently. 7"
 French Official Report. 7
 Paris, March A, Via. London, 8 38 D. m.-The following account of yes terday's events at the front was given out this afternoon at the war office:
 "A division of the Belgian army has made progress on the right bank of the Yser. Another has captured a [ f1,1 1nf+ hoyo olr A manns-Weilerkopf we captured the first line of trenches referred to in the preceding communication; like wise a second line. On this section of the front our troops are organizing themselves, on the further side of this second line. Within a short dis -tance of the summit we captured some prisoners, including officers"
 German Official Report
 Berlin, March "A, by Wireless Tclegraphy to sayville, N. Y.-At army headquarters today the following statement was given out
 Tn Champagne there were only ar tillery duels. In the Forest of Le Pretre, northwest of Porft-A-M ousson, the enemy attempted to win back ground gained by the Germans but was repulsed. New attacks by the enemy northwest of Badonvillers and on Reich Ackerkopf broke down under the German fire. Fighting is in progress at Hartmanns-W -Weilerkopf
 German troops are pursuing the Tetreating Russians northward of Memel, East Prussia. They captured near Polangen 500 Russians and took three guns and three rapid firers. (ll1o nfi nf Ia dc were stolen by the Russians. Near Laugszargen, southwest of Tauroggen, and northeast of Mariampol Russian attacks were repulsed with heavy losses for the enemy. Northwest of Ostrolenka several Russian attacks failed. Here we captured twenty officers, more than 2,5O0 men and five machine guns. Eastward of Flock several charges of the enemy failed.
 ''The German army expresses cor dial thanks to the gallant garrison at Przemysl which, after four months of defense full of sacrifices could be overpowered only by hunger
 Remove Heavy Batteries.
 London, March 24, 9:45 a. m.-Of- flcial announcement has been made in Petrograd, says the correspondent
 
 the Germans since Sunday have re- moved all but four of their heavy batteries from before Ossowetz. The Russian statement adds: "A couple of 42-centimetre howitzers were abandoned after the first battle, one of which was damaged by our fire. Shots from the howitzers failed to crush the masonry of the fortress. Superiority in artillery fire was dis tinctly on our side. Not only was the German attack far from endan- dering the Ossowetz forts but the enemy failed to dislodge our infan- try from it's field works.
 "In an Austrian attack on the 18th on the front in the vicinity of Ro- pitza the enemy opened a hurricane fire with 12-inch howitzers under cover of which twenty enemy batal- lions, at four o'clock in the morning, attacked our forces which were in greatly inferior strength. Our in- fantry opened fire with extremely careful aim at the enemy who, SUD- ported by reserves, approached to within 200 paces of our trenches His reserves were exhausted at nine o'clock and the enemy withdrew, leaving the area covered with his killed and wounded"