IN THE CARPATHIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2601, 9 April 1915, Page 2

IN THE CARPATHIANS.

RUSSIANS GAIN THE PASSES. TROOPS POURING INTO HUNGARY. : VILLAGES BEING OCCUPIED. COUNTRYSIDE TERROR-STRICK-EN. London, April 8. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent says that hitherto the Russians in tbe Carpathians have been compelled to advance in single column,, but the capture of the Rostok Pass enables morje. compact bodies. Already Hungarian villages are in their hands, including Palyena, where the highroad to the plain begins. The Russians are penetrating the and through tbe Pass, and Hungary is filled with terror at their approach. The Russians are penerating tho chief range of the Carpathians with large, forces, and ivill compel the Germans and Austrians to fall hack for fear their communications are endangered. Nothing short of a miraclo can avert Austrian humiliation. Petrograd, April 8. Official .—All the summits of the principal chain of the Bjskid nioun.tains are i nour hands. On the sth wo took prisoner 2900 men and three guns. German attacks in the last threo weeks in the region of Kosioukva and [Itozanka have been abandoned after enormous sacrifices. The enemy's composition was changed several -times. '