Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-23
Summary of War
NeWs of YESTERDAY

The Austrian war office admits
that the Gulician fortress Of Przemysl
which SO long had held out against
the Russian bosiegers at last has been
forced through a shortage of food, to
capitulatc. II was not. however with
out las, gala. attempt At sou tie
that tht garrison surrcn I'rel.
With only three days rations left
the Austriens endeavored to break
through the besieging lines of Rus
slams, but after q seven-hour battle
they were compelled, under the with
ering gunlire of their numerically
stronger foe, to retreat behind the line
of forts Three days later having de-
stroyed the fortfications blown up
the guns and burned up the ammuni-
tion, the Austriaus showed the white
flag of surrender. Vienna says the
fortress for long time had faced a
famine
In the fan of Przcmysl Petrograd
asserts that the Russians took nine
generals, 800 commanding officers
and so, 600 men The Russians now,
It Is said, anticipate the moving to-
ward Austria's only remaining strong
Fortress In Galicia--CraCoW The fall
Of Cracow would bring the Russians
Il step nearer to Gcrm8ny's rich pro-
vince of Sllesln
While fighting has continued at
various points on both the eastern and
western battle lines no great on
counters have heen reported Petro-
grad asserts that there has been no
change IN the situation from Mcmel,
East Prussia, 10 the Nistula, which rs
at variance with the German claims
that Memel had been rccaptured from
the Russians
ON the left bank Of the Nistula and
I'm the Carpathians, Petrograd reports
that German and Austrian positions
and guns have been captured and
Officers and men made prisoners In
the western thcater Paris asserts that
In the vicinity Of Noire Dame de Lo-
rettc trenches taken from the Ger
mans are being hold, that counter-at-
tacks by the Germans at Les Espar-
gcs have been repulscd ana that pro-
Rress has hccn made by the allies Ia
the region OF 3ndunvllcr
The Netherlands government has
asked Rcrlln 10 caplaiu the seizure of
two Dutch steamers and the eonlis-
cation OF their carBocs
A British prize court has ordered
illhi AIlti ithI il'Nl anu Wiltdl III tll'
cargoes of three steamers detained in
British ports be paid for
A German submarine has blown up
The British steamer Concord in the
English channel.
Three German soldiers in Mulhcim, |
Baden, have been injured by bombs ,
dropped by an allied aviator.
a London newspaper prints IA dis !
patch from Valparaiso stating that
he fact has been established that the |
German cruiser Dresden was sunk hy /
British warships In Chilean waters
semi-offiCial communication from |,
Germany asserts that there are now In .
that country as prisoners sol. 900 cu- .
listed men and over 5000 command /
ng officers
Italy has stopped railway freight |
raffe with Germany by way of I
switzerland, according TO news /
agency Dispatch
Sir Thomas Upton. who has just ,
to London from Serbia re- |
ates "a storS OF the appalling condi- .
lions in Serbia due to the epidemic OF !
yphus
Just as ii took fire TO stop the |
great plague in London. Sir Thomas I
iays so fire is needed to clear Ser /
Dia Of the typhus The infected |
houses ana the clothing of the people |
should be burned