New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06
Armies Retire 10 Escape
Being Cut OFF by Foes
in West Galicia.
TEUTONIC ALLIES
CAPTURE GORLlCE
Cars Troops Fall Further Back,
Struggling Hard to Check
Austro-German Advance.

London. Nav 5.-The great Russian
army which had fought its way through
the Dukla and Lupkow passes to the
southern slopes of the Carpathians
overlooking the plains OF Hungary has
been forced by the Austro-German NC
tory on the Galician line to start in
full retreat back across the mountains
in order to save itself from being en-
tirely cut off, according to Official dis
patches from both Vienna and Berlin.
Pctrograd tonight officially an
nounces' the retirement of part OF
the Russians Galician line to- their
recent line OF Notifications.
The reported retiring movement OF
the Russians from Hungary covers
front of something like forty miles,
extending from Zboco, north OF Bart
field and east of the Dukla entrance
through Sztropko and Lupkow. Such
movement, which would also affect
the Russian columns that have ad-
vsnced from the Lupkow pass south-
eastward to attempt an attack OF '"e
roor of the Austro- German forces de-
f.ndinr the Uzsok against the pressure
from the north, would be made 10
establish junction with the left wing
Of the Russians Galician line'
Russians Lose Gorlice.
The Russians in the latter front are
reported from Berlin and vienna u
he vainly attempting to stem the tide
~ the Austro- German advance. Inc
nursuers. unofficial dispatches say
have pierced the Russian line in three
nlaee,. have driven the Cars troops
cu, OF Gorlice, on the right bank OF the
Dunaiec, and are pressing eastward
,oward Jaslow and Zmigrod, nearly
score OF miles back Of the river.
Meanwhile, from the latest reports
~. fighting on the east and west line
ro,,b Of the Carpathians, around
strv, nearly a hundred miles from
,hs battle zone Of the Dunajec, Is pc
inc waged with desperate energy.
A Petrograd dispatch to Tho pa'iy
News" says:
"All the German movements in the
,, ~. NOW in immense force. From
Cracow southwark since Sunday there
have been sharp separate engagements
at Tarnoy, and Gorlice, in Call
cia. and Bartfeld, in Hungary. Inc
Russian army has driven the Austri-
ans westward from the right bank OF
the Nida, which flows southwark INTO
N. yi,tula a few miles cas-: OF the
mouth of the Dunaiec. A battle IN
volving enormous numbers is now be-
ginning, it is believed. The Bavsrian
army, which last week abandoned its
attempt on the Stryj road, Is now
Fastening westward TO I'LL .he rignt
wing of the German line"
London Sees Political Move.
Observers in London are Of the opin-
ion that the fact that the Russians
have not been diverted from their oo-
iective elsewhere, and that the bat
ties in the Stryj region continue with
unabated energy, is good evidence tnat
the situation of the Russians IS not so
critical as has been painted, and the
idea is being advanced in London that
POLITICAL reasons may have mad some
thing 70 do with the huge importance
attached TO this success by the Ger
man and the Austrian governments In
their Official communications concern
The eommuniaue Of the Austrian
War Department received here to-day
says: -,
"The Russian front Of Zboro-
Sztrcpko-Lupkow, in the Beskid Noun
tains, has become untenable. As the
victorious allies are continually ad-
yancing from the west toward Jaslow
and Zmigrod the enemy on the west
Carpathian front started this morning
in full retreat from Hungary. pursued
bv the ro-Hungarisn troops. The
Russians. therefore, were beaten on a
front of $50 kilometres 1913 miles, and
were forced TO retreat with the heav-
lest losses
The Berlin official version OF the
operations in and north Of the Car
pathians states:
"An attack BY the allied troops north
Of the wooded Carpathians pierced
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