New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
AUSTRIANs CRUSH
 RUSSIAN FRONT IN WEST GAl|c|A Sh,Ip Fighting Resumed inflaldtIs
 --BsIh Allies German ClaIm T Successes nEDhlN lEDnIIhNE fuEp

GERMAN AEROILiNE OYER
 DOVER IS DRIVEN OFF Swedish Steamer and Two British Trawlcrs Sunk in North Sea by
 German Submarines-Town of Dardanelles Reported Destroyed in
 Bombart1ment Saturday Allied
 Ships Damaged.
 An imposing victory of Austrian aSms over the Russian forces in western Galicia was announced to- day by the German war office. It is said the Austrians, in the presence Of their commander-in-ch Arch- scuke Frederick, '.pierced and evert- where crushed the entire Russian line. x sj An; attack from this quarter has been predicted in Petrograd des- patches as an offset to Russian ef- forts further east on the Carpathian front. The direction in which this new and sudden stroke has been made, evidently in great force, lies to the south of Russian Poland. The line along which the Austrians ad- svance was made runs for about sixty miles north and south through Galicia, something more than fifty miles east of Gracow.
 Sharp Fighting in Flanders.
 Sharp fighting has been resumed on the Flanders side. French, German and British offlcial stat tell of German attacks near Hill 60, which ythe British recently captured. and in the vicinity of St. Julien, both in the Ypres region. The Paris and London communications say the German on- sIaugIlts failed, but Berlin character ized the movements as successful and sayn that a farm southeast Of St. Ju-s lien was captured. It is also said in the German report that Hartmanns- Weil1erhekopf, the Alsation Height which has been claimed by both sides recently, was attacked yesterday by the French.
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 Allies Making No Roadway.
 The Turkish war office announced that the allied forces which landed on Gallipoli Peninsula had been prevent ed from making headway. It is said the British battleship Vengeance, pre- Sisusly reported damaged and the French battleship Henri ", were struck by shells.
 A German aeroplane appeared over Dover today but was driven off. Lon don heard report that a. Zeppelin was flying over the North sea in the direction of the English coast.
 Three More Vessels Sunk. The sinking of three more vessels Tn the North sea by German submar- ines in their new campaign is report ed today The Swedish steamer ElIi- da went to the bottom in less than three minutes after she was torpedoed but the eighteen persons on board es- caped. Trawlers reaching Aberdeen report that two vessels of a fishing vsleet were sunk yesterday less than fifty miles off that port.
 It Is believed in Rome that Aus tria and Germany have decided on another effort to prolong the negot:a- tions between Italy and the central empire, in the hope of reaching a peaceful settlement of the territorial sssspute. For this purpose 1t is said, that Count GoInchowski. former Aus tro-H Hungarian foreign minister, will go to Rome from Vienna.
 Italian Parliament to Reopen. ss The Italian cabinet has decided not to postpone the assem bling of parlie ment on May l ? and it is thought in Rome that parliament may assist the cabinet in reaching "a decision which now appears to be almost inevitable''
 Information from the Dardanelles by way of London, Is that the bonn bardment of the Turkish forts was carried on Saturday. and that great damage was inflicted on the warships of the allies.
 The town of Dardanelles is said to have been destroyed
 - Important Austrian Victory.
 Berlin, May 3, via London, 3:s4sp. m.-An important Austrian victory In E the eastern campaign is announced in the communication issued today from German army Headquarters.
 The statement is made that the Aus trians have pierced and broken the ky1tlIe huSSiaH LFOnI III West Gal1c1a.
 The text Of the official statement follows:
 Z Tn the western theater of the war: 5 Yesterday we successfully attacked in Flanders. to the northeast of the Pool cappel1e-Y Ypres road, and took the farms in Fortuin, southeast of St. Julien
 Successful Mine Explosions.
 Tn the Champagne district we ir- fHfed considerable damage on the