Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-05
Sir John French Says Three Flanders Towns Abandon
 ed Because of Gas.
AUSTRIANS TAKE
 30,O00 RUSSIANS
General yOn Hindenberg Is Steadily Pressing NOrthWard to Take Russian Port of Libau, and Turks Claim
 Invaders Beaten Back.

London, May 4.---The Teutonic allies ious scattered operations today. Capture Of three towns in Flanders, aggressive pursuit of the Russians in West Galicia, with heavy toll of prisoners, and renewed claims that the advance of the allied army in Gallipoli had been stopped. were tlie outstanding features in the official re- ports from Berlin Vienna and Con- stantinOple.
 While the Germans claim to have captured the Flanders towns, Field 1 Marshal French in a dispatch to the British war office stated that he vol untarily relinquished the positions because the use of gas by the Germans made a readjustment of his positions necessary. The German and Austrian successes in the Carpathians were al so discounted from British sources.
 While Berlin was silent on opera tions in the Baltic provinces in North west Russia, where General von Hin- denberg is attempting to cut off the Russian port of Libau, unofficial ad- vices from Berlin say the Germans expect to capture the port of Riga on Riga gulf without much Russian re- sistance, and with the aid of the Ger
 man fleet in the Baltic. ,al,,
 The Russian railroad connections leading toward Warsaw have been broken at several points.
 The most important features of the
 sea operations were the sinking or an English submarine by airsErips In the North sea and the disabling of tine British battleship Agamemnon in the lDardanelles. These advices came from Berlin. London was silent about them.
 Fresh C0nquests in Galicia. Il Austro- German reports state that
 fresh conquests have been made fol- flowing the drive through the Russian lines in West Galicia. More than 3O,- } 900 prisoners have already been talk en, and the totals are swelling hour- lly. while p cannon and GA machine iguns were captured, together with 3 large quantity of war material, ac- { cording to the Austrian report, which
 adds that strong Russian forces are retreating through the Carpathians to
 the eastward.
 It is an accepted military axiom
 that great numbers of prisoners are not captured in actual battle; 1t is Tn
 retreating that. large bodies of troops
 struggling or cut off in harassing rear guard actions, fall prisoners. Enor- nous figures at which the Austrians iplace their claims of prisoners taken, considered in, connection with the
 numbers of guns falling into their
 hands. is taken by military experts to Imean nothing short of a hurried re- treat by the Russians.
 . In Flanders the Berlin report states the Germans this morning captured |Zeyecote. Zonnebeke and Westhoke.
 and the forest of Polygonos and Non : neboschen, positions which have been the goal of heavy fighting for months
 past. The allied forces are retreat ! ing. the statement adds, and now
 are under 8 flanking fire from the German guns northeast of Ypres. Gas Makes 'Em Quit. Field Marshal Sir John French m , his report to the Lcndon war onlce , states that the "loss of ground wnlcn
 resulted from the unexpected use or asnhyxiating gases by the enemy last week has necessitated the read5usting of our lines before Ypres. rms re- l adjustment, which has been in prog ress for the last few days. was sue cessfully completed last night: ine . new line runs west of ZonneDeke. .3 The British report of operations m Gallipoli comes by way of Cairo ana covers activities up to and includlng
 Sunday night. This account states @ that the "allies have now advanced s3 the interior of (Gallipoli) peninsnia.
 Constantinople's report apparenlly