RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13771, 7 May 1915, Page 6

RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS.

London May 5, 3.20 p.m

In Galicia from the Vistula to the Carpathians there was a succession of battlea <m Sunday and. Monday. Tho enpmv crossed to tlio right bank of tho B'u'na'jetx, but their further advance was ■ decked by a particularly desperate f'i'.ht m the region of Tukho'ff and ii'iecv,. In the course of counter-atta:-!ss the Russians took 100 prisonThe Germans are making their first appeal a nee in the Carpathians at Stryi end in the region of Golovetsko. There have boen very fierce battles. One hill chanp-ed hands three -times. The Ilusfurns' ihiallv ciiptnred.it on Monday. During the" day they took 1.200 prisoner,^ a:id rr;i,hui'lenses. At .the source-, of the fiver Siutze, an attempt by the enemy to envelop the E,us signs' }i:rik failed. • Prisoners wove taken, and. the enemy is falling back m disorder. ' At'certain points tho enemy attempted to cross' the Nida, but. counter-at-tack's compelled them to evacuate the left bank of the river. Near Krasneff tho enemy concentrated hurriedly and stubbornly, and thre.v up entrenchment. On Sunday n^ht the Russians attacked-the occupants of the trendies with the. bayonet and annihilating them and took 400 prisoners, including !• oSiceTs._ 1 London, May 6, 4.15 a.m. Between tbo Vistula and the Carpathians, the Germans brought into the nohting line fresh troops in great strength, supported by numerous artillery. The enemy's massed formations suffered enormous losses. Some Russian unite fell back to the second line of fortifications, after obstinate fighting. At Angelow, on the Upper Lomnitssa, on Monday, the enemy's offensive on an extensive front was resultless.