Show r FOUR MILLION MEN ENGAGE IN BATTLE TREMENDOUS BATTLE IN THE CARPATHIA BE BETWEEN WEE RU S SIAN t AND D E fORCES AN FORCES i I I It Seems Certain e That the Issue of 01 r ThIs Battle Will Have a Great t I Influence I on on the the Future Course of the Campaign 1 h The b battle 1 now w proc proceeding edi In th the ther the r Carp a thIan 1 is Is the most tr tremendous in S struggle that the war has yet pro pro- i It Is comp computed t that the forces of the two to opponents number something some some- thing like men l It seems certain that the issue of ol k this battle will have great influence on the utu future e course cours of t the e campaign r- r The rh resl results ts pay may be decisive I The adoption of the th thi the f i allies on the west front Is lending Russia Rus RUf- sia siL material al support supports as It prevents the Germans Germans tr from m dra drawing reinforce merits from Croin that q quarter Russia by r accepting battle on so large a all at the present moment when general genera I quiescence was expected on this front S. S is lightening the present task of GreatS Great t S Britain and France It is likely that the Germans bythe by S th the J transfer of their troops to Hungary Huni Hun Hun- i g gary ry hope by bya a violent blow tempos S amy to exhaust the strength of oz Rusia itu Rus Ru Russia sia and so leave themselves free to toS S turn their attention ito to Belgium an ana 2 Franco Franco France with redoubled energy It i H believed that Germ Germany ny has absorbed absorb all her stra strategic egic r reserves senes and c can can n re re reinforce one front only at the expense j of the other Very Vey sanguine views t are expressed d f S at Petr Petrograd grad regarding the outcome ol 01 S the Ci Carpathian Carpathia battle The rhe Russians S Jare are still either th adva advancing cing steadily or ox of lof prisoners has mounted to thou repulsing ng all l attacks attacks attacks' with posses losses to the their ther r enemy enemy The daily toll r sands S The battle battle now Involves the entire ridge b between tween the railway on the right iI and the line on oa the Uia left Field Marshal sir John French com corn f mander of the British Ff fo forces es on the continent reports the J British losses loses In th the th three ee days' days fight fighting ing at N Neuve uve chapelle Chapell as follows Killed 90 officers 2337 men Wounded Wounded officers other rs- rs ranks Missing 23 1 23 officers 1721 f v men Field Marshal Frenchs French's report i. i continues The enemy left severa several I tho thousand sand dead on the field eld and we WI r S S have ave positive information that upward of of wounded were removed by r. r train tram Thirty officers and 1657 ot oi other ether ranks were c captured p e |