The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-05-07
Peirograd Announces Victory
In the Caucasus
AUSTRIAN SUCCESS GROWS
Vienna Declares Cars Forces Lost
Thirty Thousand Men Taken Prison.
ers, twenty-five Cannon
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

rograd, May 5.-The pursuit Of
the defeated Turkish army under
command of khali 6ey In the
Khori Hilmon region OF the eau
cases, is being continued acprd-
ing to Trustworthy advlees reach.
ing Tifils.
Paris May 5.--A Itch from
Mytilence to the is agency
says a regiment =. fkish troops
was annihiIIated I. ng the fight
ing at the Oar (. les last night.
The allies ar, % nsportina 1000
more prisons o Tenedos and
moudros. 5
London. From the east again
comes tn :, Iort of fighting. which.
because > is sanguinary character
and the consequent heavy losses. gives
that section OF The great war zones
the chief place In the war news.
This time II Is the Turkish allies
OF the Teutonic contenders who are
said TO have been the losers. They
are declared by Petrograd to have
been completely defeated, by the Rus.
SLAMS in the KhorI.Diilman region of
the Caucasus. leaving more than
800 dead on the field and their sur
yivors fleeing before the Muscoyites
Full details of the defeat OF the
Russians by the Austro- German forces
along the Nida river, from the Wis.
lula southwark through the Carpath.
ians, have as yet not come to hand.
but Vienna declares the Russians lost
In the operations 10000 men taken
prisoners and twenty-five cannon, six.
tyfour machine guns and o quantity
OF war materials.
Aberdeen. Scotland. May 5.-The
trawler Scottish Queen has been tor.
pedoed and sunk by submarine, fifty
miles OF Aberdeens The cr~w was
landed here.
The rescued men say they we're Civ
en- fifteen minutes to leave their YES.
sci. but subsequently were permitted
TO return 10 her and procure provi.
sions.
Seven members OF the crew OF the
trawler Cruiser. OF whom four were
wounded by the shell fire OF German
submarine, have been landed here by
a collier. They say that the Cruiser
was approaching the harbor with fish
when the submarine appeared and
opened fire.
One shell struck the trawler's
bridge. instantly killing four members
OF the crew. The survivors assert that
the remaining seven hands took to
their boat and were rowing away when
the submarine fired again. wounding
-four Of the men and causing the boar
to capsiZe. The men thrown into the
water were rescued from drowning by
the collier.
Constantinople. May 5.-The follow.
ing statement was issued nj the war
Office here:
ITO increase the limited extent Of
ground he held near Aviburnu the
enemy attempted a new advance on
his left wing. but as q consequences OF
our counter attacks he was In the first
place driven back with heavy losses
into very rocky valleys and after.
ward repulsed TO the coast
In the meantime our artillery
a. h2
transports, after which other trans.
ports quickly retired. &c..
THE British warship Agememnon.
which attempted 10 shell Bulair, was
struck by four shells and obliged 10
retire, being no longer able to fire"
Petrograd. May 5.-An Official com.
munication issued admits the Austro.
German forces have crossed to the
right bank OF the Dunajec river, In
Galicia. II says, however. that des.
perate fighting continues. The state
ment continues:
I'm Galicia, from the vistula to the
Carpathians. a succession of battles
developed May 2 and 3. Enemy de-
tachments succeeded In crossing to
the right bank Of the Dunajec. but our
fire prevented them from advancing
further than the bank. )
I'm the course Of our counter at.
tacks we took several hundred pris-
oners.' ]