THE EASTERN WAR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 362, 8 April 1915, Page 7

THE EASTERN WAR.

KUSSIANS* HUGE CAPTURES ,*." '-% :. . .■ -^ OFFICERS, MEN, AND GUNS. if PETEOGBAD, April 7. 't An official , statement . says: ; —*' We ■".. captured 20 officers and , r men on '-! the Carpathian front on the We \V captured an important sector north- ;f" westward, of Uszok, and occupied the • ; villages of Smblnik and Ouisriisska. An ; Austrian attempt to arrest'6uf offensive was repulsed. The. enemy's losses were .';« heavy. '•-■'' ''./; "The captures at Przeinysl included •£ 900 guns, many of them.i»good order." /i It is officially stated ; between March.. 20 and April 3 ,the»Eusaianß cap- '; tured between Baligrod and the Uszok ~* Pass 378 officers and 23,153 men, and -.* took 17 guns and 100 maehine-guns. " *! PAEIS, April 7.' A German wireless message says that 2.0,000 square miles of Russian terri- .^' tory is now held in Central Poland. - ! ;