The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-12
TURK SLAUGHTER
HISTORYS WORST.
CAIRO ASSERTS
English Still Burying Men
Slain i'm Battle on Brink
SueZ Canal.
GERMANS DRIVE FOES
OFF SNOW CLAD PEAK
kaiSer's Soldiers Deliver % At
tacks in Single Day in
Carpathians.

LOndGn, Feb. 10-A Cairo dispatch
says the slaughter of Turkish troops
in the recent fighting at the Suez
Canal was more terrible than anythins
in history. The English are still bury
ing the dead by the hundred. POntOOns
which were sunk in the Canal were fill
ed with dead, which are now being
brought 10 the surface.
Berlin, Feb. 10. by wireless to Lon
dOn-The successes achieved by the
Austrb-German troops in BukOwina.
the Hungarian crown land adjoining
GaIicia, have caused the abandonment
of BukOwina, according to state
ment issued here today.
The statement follows:
Our troops have occupied Suczawa
| (SOuthern BukOwina) and are march
ing toward Czernowitz. which has been
abandoned by the Russian Gov arnOr,
Evreimoh and his garrison, who retir-
de to NOvOsielica Con the Russian bOr-
der east of CzernOwitz)."
This is the second time the Rus
SLAMS have evacuated CzernOwitz. 4
dispatch from PetrOgrad last night
said the Austro-German advance in
BukOwina threatened the Russians
with isolation or The evacuation of the
province.
! Petrograd. Feb. 10-A battle in
which the Germans made % attacks
| in day against heights of the SNOW
covered CarDathians and which was
marked by bayOnat fighting without
precedent in history" is described in
detail in the official statement issued
today by the General Staff. The Ger
mans succeeded in taking Russian pO-
sitiOns, but were driven out with the
bayOnet. The scene OF the fighting was
Baligrod, 80 miles south of Sanok,
which IS 80 miles southwest of Preze-
mys."
''In the CarDathians the fighting
continues in the vicinity of Bartfcld
and Svidnik. The enemy herr under
took active operations but they did not
thus continue and they finally retired
leaving prisoners in our hands. In
the vicinity of Mount LOupkOw we
| continued our pursuit of the enemy,
and in one day We captured 50 officers,
500 men and Is machine guns.
German columns, having made
their way over the TukhOlka Pass, de-
livered during the day of Feb. no
fewer than 22 violent attacks on Ger.
tain heights in the region of kOZiOuw
| ka, occupied by us. The Germans
came forward 10 this attack several
ranks deep. presenting a full front
line.
"I'nder our violent cross fire the
Germans here twice took possession
of certain height, but thay were dis
lodged by counter attacks delivered by
our infantry.
This success was preceded by long
and violent hard-to-hand fighting with
the bayOnet. which is without prece-
dent in history. The losses sustained
in this engagement by the Germans
were exceedingly heavy.
attacks of the enemy ia the vicinity
of WyschkOwO also were repulsed.
"In order to attack our positions
near kOziOuwka the Germans COM
menced their concentration Of troops
the NIGHT Of Feb. 6, Early the next
morning they began the delivery of an
irresistible offensive movement and
their attacks was supported by a very
violent fire from their heavy artillery.
They were successful in gaining an
important height occupied by us, but
they were promptly driven from their
positions before bayonets.
Attacks then followed without let
I'D. Toward evening the Germans in
very considerable numbers took pos
session of the highest position in our
lire, from which they were disIodged
only after desperate fight. Before
retiring they exhausted all their
strength in a stubborn resistance to
a general counter attack on our part,
a feature of which was an unprece-
dented encounter with the bayonet.