| Show TWO GATEWAYS INTO HUNGARY STILL BARRED I I Further Advance of Russians Hangs Upon Possession of Pass Pas Wh Where re invaders Still Are Held in Check GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS REINFORCEMENTS' BEING PUSHED TO FRONT Counter Offensive Begun Also in East Galicia to Weaken I Attacks in the I French Operation Halted MAY MAKE ENGLAND DRY I I IT T ONDON April l' l 13 Two Two gate gate- gateways ays lJ into Hungary ri s still remain barred despite the tremendous ham the Russian forces and the Beskid i pass Pis is is the less les Important of the two I strategically a R further cr advance into Hungary arr hangs upon the possession of pass the invaders are arc meet meeting ng with ith the most ost stubborn sir ion Several days as ago the Russians captured a n. position ll which gave them command of a road leading lg to the rear of pa pass but since th then n the lie Teutonic allies have c checked the movement in iii this 4 direction e ti The importance oC ot the Uie Carpathian operations op OP- op- op is js Indicated by the halfhearted halfhearted half halt hearted actions reported report tJ from the other sectors on the long lon eastern n l-n front where even en the counter offensive in East Galicia which evidently e was as planned to div divert rt the Russian efforts from the pass passes s seems to have been prosecuted with little energy The people of the dual mona monarchy chy are said to be greatly cheered by b- bt t the e number o of German reinforcements pass passing ing inS through B Budapest on oh the way a 30 to the the Carpathian front to t take ke part Inthe in inthe inthe the operations which are now believed ell t to bo be boIn In Jn C j general general gen eral ral staff The he w. w iiri In iii Ue tito east pivots on pa pass s. s wh where re the German Austro-German forces are In such great strength that the efforts 0 of or the Russians to r reach ach the Hungarian arlan plains arc likely to be e prolonged prolong In the west the French apparently are aie satisfied with their recent recent successes successes suc suc- esses between the Meuse and the Lorraine Lorraine Lor Lor- raine rains frontier arid and claim only onh to have come in contact with Ith tho UJo German en entanglements n en- in this tills region lon Official German reports m assert ert that determined attacks b by the tho French have been een re repulsed re- re pulsed along along- this sector Meet Probably no session of the British parliament since the opening of the thc war has been awaited with keener In Interest Interest interest In- In terest than the tho sitting silting which will be beIn begin begin be- be gin In tomorrow A dry England unknown unknown un un- known except for a period of two years ears HiO years ago Is not be beyond ond the possibilities but the tho government go has given not hot th the slightest official hint as asto asto asto to what action ma may be expected in Its un undoubted determination to attack the problem restricting the consumption of ot alcoholic liquors Several days s ago an opposition paper published a forecast of oC tho the government government government govern govern- ment plan which it asserted contemplated contemplated plated d the prohibition of or all liquors except except ex ex- light beer which would bo be manufactured manufactured manufactured man man- b by the government gO This prediction received e some confirmation tonight ht from a government organ which declared that the entire business o of the manufacture and sale salo of oC alcoholic liquors is to become a government mo monopoly flop ol |
