The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
EIGHTH MONTH OF WAR
SEES END OF OLD RIFLES
NonCombatants Including One American, Are Victims
of German Submarine Warfare-Anti-Drin
Crusade Stirs England

Turkish coal supplies in villages near.
by. Reports Of landing forces which
should go overland to Constaninople
were frequent but were not confirmed
IL was reported In the last DAYS OF the
month that France would send an army
OF 100000 to help out.
The battle of the Carpathians was ac-
cepted az the outset as one of the de-
''s''e actions or the war. so proclaimed
by military observers OF the allied ma
lions and conceded by the Austrisns II
Will decide whether the millions of Rus
s'hn soldiers can sweep over the noun
ta'ns ana into the plains of Hungary to
Budapest. perhaps even to Vienna it.
SELF The strong Russian often sive where
the days routine is the taking of pre-
cipitous heights was made possible by
the fall OF peremysl
Held Out Four Months.
This strongly fortified city fell. after
heroic defence OF four months. on
March %. and 10000 soldiers. eight
Generals. 5000 officers and vast
amount of ammunition and stores
iel INTO the hands of the yictors
IN addition the fail of the city
''''aSe" Tor other operations
greater part Of the 100. 900 men
y -
We're turned at once into the Carpathians,
where the battle line was formed be-
ginning at Dukla Pass and extending
south of tzok Pass. The drive Is toward
the valleys down the Ondava and La
borcz rivers and the railways. The Aus
TRANS. REINFORCED by the Germ...s. have
Iousht every step but they have e
'lred until the Russians at the northern
end of their line are over the Hungarian
frontier.
The failure of the Russian siege OF
ossowiec in northern Poland and the
check north of Przasnysz have caused n
lull IN that section OF the eastern front.
one diversion was a raid by a Russian
force on the East Prussian town OF
Memei on the Baltic. 1t was only a
dash. quickly over and unimportant In
bukowina the Austr!ans aided by the
hlgh water OF the rivers, have kept the
Russians from recovering ground lost in
the latter part of February.
Except for the capture of Neuye
Chapele on March II the western battle-
front mas seen nothing important The
Allies are marking time Attacks and
counter attacks succeed each other dav
IN and day out They are waiting for
spring for the new British army and
new artillery. The Russians are harry
ing the Turkish troops through the eau
Casus and in Persia
The most important economir devel-
opment of the war was that raised by
the sudden crusade against the liauor
traffic in England. II bids fair to sweep
the country David Lloyd George.
chancellor of the EXchequer, limited TO
some labor unions on March ! that IL
they were not careful the l.auor traffic
would he suspended during the war on
March 20 the Chancellor wrote a letter
declaring that he believed liquor to he
more deadly than the Germans and the
Austrians. on the following day King
George announced that he would Danish
alcoholic beverages from his household
during the war. Lord Kitchener, Lord
Brassey and a host of notable men fol-
lowed the Kings example As the
month ended the kingdom was ahre with
the new crusade.