Show I. I OF SUFFERS i DEFEAT forced to Retreat in Beskid Range Which Forms Barrier Relied Upon to Baffle the Advance of Czars Czar's Soldiers i f 1 CALM t PREVAILS ELSEWHERE B Believe T Must p Retire Retire South of to Prevent Cossacks Swarming Swarming Swarm- Swarm ing ng Over Plains of Hungary IN BALKANS r ONDON i April Stubborn 4 Stubborn Stubborn batties batI bat bat- I- I tics ties are s still ll being fought for the passes ses in tho the Carpathian mountains put ut elsewhere comparative calm appears ap ap- ap- ap pears ears ears to prevail pre The Austrians in heir official message this morning admitted that thc they had been forced to treat retreat in the Beskid mountains while they claim to have repulsed d any Russian attacks and to have haye taken en ken moro more than 2000 prisoners Nevertheless it i is tho the opinion of British military experts that the German Austro German forces will have to re- re ire to the mountains south of the Carpathian range and aud make another fiort ort there thero to prevent the Russian armies and particularly the Cossacks os from rom rom swarming over oer tho the plains of Hungary fI Tho The Russian army amy which months month the thc Austrian fortress of and finally forced I It f to Capitulate arid starting w westward from the lie stron stronghold immediately 11 its falls fall has now entered 1 tho the esl ld mountains a range which connects con con- t tho Little with the tho Eastern where the Austrians Austrians Aus Aus- ti ians for somo time past stubbornly stubborn held tho the passes and heights 11 1 Austria Admit n ret re t p Dispatches from Vienna state that the he retreat of or Austrian forces in the re region ion of at the ns is Admitted at arm army headquarters where the following statement was as Issued f The presence of at lar large e Russian re reInforcements reinforcements re- re arriving from th thA rit n tn fr WIth J draw dra raw from the tIe Beskid region In tho fi fighting hlinE on both bolh sl sides es atthe of at the valleY continues Yesterday Yester Tester day n tty wo we attacked and dislodged tho the enemy nem from several se strong positions position Russian attacks cast of Ira a oro roro repulsed ed In yesterdays yesterday's engagements we o e captured 2020 O O prisoners prisoner 4 The Tho mountains form part of ot tho Mho boundary between Hungary and andt t They are arc a a. section of the tho great Carpathian ran range c. c the natural Tharrier upon which Hungary Austria relics cUes to halt haJt tho Russian advance j i 1110 Germans havo hao made a slight ad- ad vance on tho Yer front where here they e taken n a village from the B Bel- Bel l- l Klana j-Klana but It Is not believed that any big jT attempts will be made mado in this as floods flood which can be brought at nl an any time b by opening sluices loiter o fel an Imp Impenetrable barrier to a general advance I Fighting also continues in the forI for- for I Lest cst of or I Le which has been the f scene of a long nd and sanguinary battlo hattle If No 0 o n From 3 11 Nothing now has been boen received from the Dardanelles or other Turkish fronts although a Russian semiofficial Cl- Cl cial report port says ms that tho the Turkish pro pro- tec cd cruiser struck truck a R mine mild sank T Ko So far Car as the Balkans aro arc concerned ft Interest centers in tho the raid b by Bulf Bulgarian Bul Bul- f garian Irre irregulars Into Serbia which has as been successfully countered As usual recriminations are arc h being Indulged In- In in tho the Serbians nR Char charging that the raiders wore led b by Bulgarian Austrian or Gorman German officers while the Bulgarians ns reply that the outbreak was t tho ho result of ot the tho Serbian of or that portion of or Macedonia whIch is largely largel Inhabited 1 by Bulgari Bul- Bul gari a n s. s It is expected here that the tho matter twill bo be settled h by Bulgaria promising to punish those responsible for tor the fJ-ald fJ If it Is proved that they ther actually organized organize the operation on Bulgarian soil 3 Prohibition t Tho question of or the prohibition of ot alcoholic liquors for tho period of or the thear War ar was discussed ed from tho the pulpits throughout tho the country tOda today the preachers urging that the example of ot the tho 10 king and tho the cabinet ministers should bo be followed and that the tho use J alcoholics should be bo voluntarily given up lilt A meeting of or the labor party at Norwich on the tho other hand strongly protested against the accusation that the tho output of ot the tho W war Avar r munitions was as being delayed 1 by drinking the tho f 1 i 4 |