THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 5

THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS.

THE CARPATHIANS.

FIERCE FIGHTING NORTH OF

BARTFELD

DESPERATE CONFLICT IN BUKO-

VINA

(Received April 6, 8 p.m.)

Petrograd, April 6

Official—There has been fierce artillery and bayonet fighting' north of Bartfeld. We took prisoner twenty officers and 1200 men.

We also took prisoner twenty-five officers and 2000 men, besides three guns, on the front between Mezolabovez and the Uszok Pass.

Desperate fighting occurred on Saturday and Sunday at the village- of Okna, north of Czernowitz. We took 1000 prisoners who had been left behind by the Austrians.