Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-05
RUSSIANS SUFFER i,
ANOTHER DISASTER,
IS BERLIN REPORT
Said to Have Been Defeated
Along Extensive Front in
the Carpathians. -
STAND NORTH OF DUNAJEC
BY GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS
Continuance of Desperate Fighting
Is Accepted by Allies as
Hopeful Sign. n
HUGE BOOTY FOR THE VICTOR
Vienna Claims Capture of Thirty
Thousand Prisoners. TWENTY-FIVE
Cannon. Many Machine Guns
and Munitions.

Further striking victories by
the Austro-German forces in the
east were announced today by
the Berlin war office. 1t is in
Galicia that the most important
victory is claimed.
Following the successes of the
last few days. the Austro-German
attack was extended farther to the
east. into the heart of the wooded
Carpathian section, where the
Russians have been struggling
for months to break through into
Hungary. The German announce
ment says the third fortified line
OF the Russians was pierced and
that they were defeated along the
entire front.
BERLIN, via London, Nav :.
1910 am.-The southern wing
o: the Russian army in west
Galicia has been broken along
front OF thirty-six kilometers
(twentv-four miles,. according to
a dispatch received by the Tase-
blatt from special correspondent.
The attack was made with
such determination SAYS the
correspondent. that the Russians
were forced to abandon not only
their first line. but also the vii
lagos back of the front. which
served as quarters.
Fierce Battle in Streets.
Only in Gorlice did the Rus
slams make stand. This town
was destroyed by an artillery
bombardment. and bitter street
fight preceded its capture by the
Germans.
"All the staff officers OF one
Russian division were killed or
wounded. including several gen
erals. The majority of prisoners
wore military caps and civilian
clothing They complained OF in
sufficient food"
Took Thirty Thousand Prisoners
An official statement issued in Vienna
says 10000 Russian soldiers. twenty
two cannon and sixty-four machine
guns We're captured in the battle of
West Galicia.
4 school holiday was ordered today
in Germany in celebration OF the VIC
tory which the German general staff
and the Austrian war depa rtmen mt claim
their forces have won over the Rus
SLAMS in West Galicia
German military critics emphasize
the Importance of the Austro-Germau
success, particularly in its connection
with the advance of German forces
to the eastward of MemeI through the
Baltic provinces.
Russians Admit Defeat.
LONDON. May ), l:l. p.m.--The Rus
sian reports concerning the recent
lighting in western Galicia are being
accepted by British military critics
reducing the German claims Of victory
in this battle TO more just proportions.
Following his custom, Grand Duke
Nicholas COMMUNICATIVE chief in the
field, has not hesitated TO admit a
verse and confirms the German state
ment that his antagonists have sue
ceeded in breaking across the Dunajec
river.
Holding Line on Dunajec.
But the grand duke adds that he is
holding them fast on the bank of this
stream and he seems TO intimate that
h. has little anxiety concerning the
ultimate outcome of the fierce fighting
which has been going on in this region
for a week.
Observers in London are of the opIn-
ion that the fact that the Russians
have not been diverted from their OBJ
iectiye elsewhere and that the battles
in the Stry region continue with un-
abated energy is good evidence that
the situation of the Russians Is not 50
critical as has been painted, and the
idea is being advanced in London that
political reasons may have had some
thing to do with the huge Importance
a atta ched to this success by the German
and the Austrian governments in their
nfficiaI communications concerning it.
DssDerate fighting is in progress
further east on the Carpathian front.
In the region of Stry II is said one hill
changed hands three times in single
battle. and that 1900 more Austrians
were captured by the Russians.