HEAVY FIGHTING IN CARPATHIANS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13602, 6 February 1915, Page 3

HEAVY FIGHTING IN CARPATHIANS.

(Received February 6, 8.40 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Feb. 5. An official communique states that ■the Russians with bayonet charges at Borjimoff captured two lines of trenches. The Russians are progressing in the Carpathians and captured two thousand prisoners and ten mitrailleuses near Uszen. They withdrew from the Foukholka and Beskid passes to previously prepared positions, owing to the enemy's superior number. The enemy's attempts to" advance in Wyszkoff pass were repelled with heavv losses. (Received Feb. 6, 12.15 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Feb. 5. The Germans^ for two days and nights swept the Russian positions at Borjimoff with six hundred massed guns. Many shells emptied , suffocating gases, covering the trenches with a poisonous pall, but the Russians were splendidly dug in. and afterwards charged with 50 quickfirers with irresistible impetuosity, capturing 14 guns. (Received February 6, 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 5. An official communique states : We mined a trench westward of the ArrasLille road. The occupants were killed or captured. We also recovered a lost trench at Bagatelle and progressed beyond. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5. • A communique from Berlin states : | Strong Russian attacks on positions eastwards of Borjimoff wore repulsed. We captured four guns, twenty -six officers, and v six thousand men. '

The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, Feb. 5. Paris reports that west of the LilleArras road the Allies captured two to three hundred metres of the enemy's trenches. In front of Verdon the French brought down on aircrift. making the aviators prisoners.