Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-11
Summary of Var
NelUs of Yesterday

The fighting around Les Esparges
in the Woevre district of France, dur
ing the past two months and the final
assaults, which gained for the French
this important strategic position, cost
the Germans $4,000 men.
This is the estimate made by the
French war office in its latest Off
cial statement, which however, gives
no idea Of the French losses. 1t an
nounces still further progress by the
French forces in their furious on
slaughts against the German lines
which are drawn up between the
Meuse and the Mosclle rivers as the
protecting wall for Metz, the great
fortress of Alsace Lorraine.
Since the capture of Les Esparges
by the allies there has been no coun-
ter-attack on this position, which
dominates the plains Of the Woeyre
and whose occupation gave the allied
forces one Of the main objectivcs for
which they had been striving Tor
weeks.
OF almost equal interest TO the at
tempt of the French To force back The
Germans in France, is the continued
drive of the Russians in the Carpa-
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principal chain of mountains between
( Dukla and lzsok passes ana are at
tacking the German and Austrian
forces to the east of Uzsok pass, The
Austrian report of this battle says
that furious fighting is in progress
and that the German trops have cap
tured a height to the north Of Tu-
cholka after an engagement lasting
several days Here the Germans
took more than 900 prisoners. IT IS
added that strong attacks delivered
by the Russians In the Opor valley
have failed, the Russians sustaining
severe losses.
The latest Russian official state
ment says that the MuscoVtes TOOK
the offensive in the direction OF Me
zoIlaborcz and dislOdged the opposing
forces from Wirawa. The Russians
also captured Height 900. much dls-
puted position which means, they
claim, that the enemy has been driven
back throughout the whole ot the
principal chain of the Carpathlans m
the region Of the Russian offensive.
The Russians also repulsed violent
counteT-attacks in the direction OF Ro-
stoks and captured thousand prls-
onors
In Russian Poland, to the west OF
the Niemen river. the Russians at
tackled the German positions between
Kalwarya and Ludwinow and cap
tured two lines Of trenches after u
stubborn fight with the bayonet. IN
this fight. Petrograd claims, the Rus
slams took 500 prisoners
There is no news concerning the op-
eratons in the Dardanelles and tenn
porarily there appears to be lull III
other naval operations,
The cargo Of cotton on the Ameri-
can steamer Navajo has been ordered
before British prize court This
action was taken under the order-ln-
council cutting off all trade 10 ana
from Germany. The cargo of the
Navajo, shipped from Galveston, Is
the first to be detained avowedly un-
der this order.
The British steamer Harpalyce, un-
der charter to the commission for re-
lief in Belgium and the first relief
boat of New York state, has met with
disaster IN the North sea. either har-
ing been tGrpedoed or sunk by a mine.
The steamer carried crew of fifty
three men and It Is feared that twen-
ty-six OF them have been drowned.
The Dutch steamer Elizabeth, from
Rotterdam, to New York. picked mp
twenty-five Of the crew.