The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-12
Win GREAT VICTORY
VIENNA CLAIMS CAPTURE OF
THIRTY THOUSAND
Menace RUSSIAN FLANKS

| AuSCrO-Gernan ARMIES WIN t1ctOry
Along Galician Front-German
General Mackenzon, Who Won
Lodz and Lowitz, Leads Allied
Teutonic Soldiers in New Victory.
! According to the official state
ments both of Berlin and Vienna, the
| German and Austrian arms have
| achieved a notable victory in West
| Galicia, smashing the entire Russian
centre along a front Of many miles,
or, as Berlin roughly puts it, across
the whole western tip of Galicia,
! from ear the Hungarian border to
the point where the River Dunajec
joins the Vistula, which is right at
the frontier of Poland.
Though the prisoners the Tteu-
tonic allies say they have taken does
not compare with the number some
of Field Marshal yon Hindenburg S
| rushes netted him in the north, the
achievement, if subsequent reports
| bear out the Austro-German conten-
| tions as to the situation it creates,
will, says a London dispatch, in the
! opinion of some of the English mill
tary writer's, seriously affect the
| whole Russian campaign in the Car
pathians, making extremely precari-
Gus the position, of the Russian troops
pressing down the southern slopes to-
! ward the plains of Hungary.
The line between the Vistula and
| the Hungarian frontier was about
forty miles east Of Cracow. The
| Austro-Germans have been defending
! it stubbornly ever since the begin
ming of the Carpathian fighting. The
general British comment is some
what reserve pending the Petrograd
version of the operations.
Vienna reports: German and
Austro-Hungarian troops in true
| comradeship of arms gained now
victory. During the retreat Of the
! Russians after our victorious battle
at Limanova, western Galicia, we
captured the strongly fortified front
| of the enemy between the Vistula and
the main ridge of the Carpthians.
In a continued attack the allied
troops, under the eyes &C Command
er-in-Chief Arehduke Frederick, gain
ed new successes and advancing IL
resistibly in an easternly direction
forced the Russians to make hasty
| retreat.
"The import nee Of the total sue
| cess can not yet be approximately
estimated. The number of prisoners
taken so far is 10000. 1t is increas-
ing hourly. A great quantity of war
material has been captured in num-
erous Russian positions, including %
cannon and 64 machine guns.
"On the remainder of the frcnt
the situation is generally unchang-
ed"
A large German army has been
concentrating before Cracow for three
weeks for new offensive. All avail
able Austro-German troops were
! quietly transferred during this time
| to the Dunajec front and for a fort
night past an unbroken stream of
troop trains poured eastward from
Frankfort, Berlin and other German
railroad centers.
Final plans were approved at a
| conference in Berlin April % be-
tween Gen. Won Falkenhayn, chief of
the German staff, and Field Marshal
Won Hoetzendorf, chief Of the Aus
trian staff. Gen. Mackenzon, COM
| mander of the German Ninth army,
who also was present, left for the
front to take command of the new
army that same night.
The political value of the victory
is regarded as quite as great as the
| military. It comes in the midst Of
| the Austro-Italian negotiations and
on the eve of the meeting of the
Italian parliament and it comedies
| with the announcement of new Aus
| tro-Hungarian loans, success Of
which will be materially affected.
Berlin reports: I'm the presence
of the Austrian commander-in-chief,
Field Marshal Archduke Frederick,
| and under the leadership of Gen. Col.
Won MackenZon, our allied troops
Monday, after bitter fighting, pierced
everywhere and crushed the entire
Russian front in west Galicia from
the neighborhood of the Hungarian
frontier to the junction Of the Duna-
i jec river with the Vistula
"Such Of the enemy as succeeded
IN escaping are in hasty retreat to-
| wards the east, closely pursued by the
allied troops. The trophies Of the
victory can not yet even be approx
mately estimated"
The first Russian offensive took
them over the Carpathians at the
Dukla pass and gave them the Bes-
kid region, just in the sharp angle of
the heavy black line, which indicates
the approximate battle front. This
advance gave the Russians salient,
whose dangerous feature lay in that
it was across the high mountains,
and reached from the Russian bases
| only through the two passes, Dukla
and Lupkow.
For a week past the Austro-Ger-
man troops have been attacking north
of UsZok pass, toward the eastern
end of the line, at the points shown
by the arrows pointing north. This
is believed to have been only q feint
and the real attack, shown by arrows
pointing east, has now been deliver
ed on the opposite side Of the Rus
Slcu SdtICiL duSIO US llOOpo Willing
east from Cracow.
It is obvious that if this drive
carries the Russians back along the
northern slopes of the Carpathians,
the Germans will soon be in the rear
of the Russians at Dukla pass, and
the Russian forces south of the Car
pathians will be in position of great
peril
London reports: The most remark
able feature, in the minds Of military
experts, of the latest German blow,
which Berlin and Vienna say has been
launched successfully against the
Russian lines in western Galicia,
along the Dunajec. south of the Pol
ish frontier and north Of the western
Carpathians, is the fact that the Rus
SLAMS themselves have had ample
warning of impending trouble in this
very region.
Both official ard unofficial dis
patches from ,Petrograd for weeks
past have mentioned that powerful