RUSSIANS DESCENDING THE CARPATHIANS.
FIERCE FIGHTING NEAR BARTFELD. THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN IN BUKOWUfA. PETROGRAD, April 6. An official communique states:—Fierce artillery and bayonet fighting took place north of Bartfeld, on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians. We took 20 officers and 1,200 men prisoners, and also captured 25 officers, 2,000 men, - and three guns on the front between Mezo Laborcz and the Uszok Pass. "Desperate fighting occurred on Saturday and Sunday round the village oi Okun, north of Czernowitz. A thousand prisoners were left behind by the Austrians." The military correspondent df the "Times" estimates that seven German army corps are directly supporting cthe Austrians, indicating that the Germans fear the Austrian defence is breaking down.
A report from Venice states that seven divisions of Russians have arrived in the vicinity of the Uszok Pass, in the Carpathians, from PrzemysL
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 82, 7 April 1915, Page 5
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