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Show TD ARHEST THE i RUSS ADVANCE A jiFind Trench Fire Insuf-$ Insuf-$ ficient and They Try a lit Series of Swift, Sud-&m Sud-&m den Attacks FLANK MOVEMENT H proves failure ( f Muscovites Successful in the ff Carpathians , Austrians I Report Repulse of the Enemy (gptc a! Cab ( Arrangement W b. London Daily Te f sripQ tod In emt onal Newi 6erv .) PCTrOGRAD March 29 The fact that fUhting on the Niemen has assumed the character of a battle is alleged here to be the result of inability of the Germans to arrest the prog ress of the Ru s ans by mere tren h & fire. They accordingly ha e adopted tact cs of trjlng to paralyze the Russ an v advance by del vering a series of swift, x sudden attacks which they make no at J temp to fo ow up To the sou heast of Mjszjniec the Ger 5 mans mo ed forward in a f anking force com sting of an en i e div s on but it was $ft bea en back with heavy losses before it V reached the Russian trenches The lat ter fo owed up the German retreat and 4 captured the f rst I ne of German trenches $ near Tartak on the other s de of the iaka river Four miles west of Tar aK the Germans del ered a main attack w th J a a ee force at Wach This a tack was t unsuccessful and the Russ ans penetrated a con, derab e d stance bejond he en 6 emy s ad ance 1 ne of trenches I Rus&ians Move Forward if la the Carpath ans the qu es ent in te lude is not kely to be o pronounced and for the present the Russians are , not letting any grass grow under the r f feet In the direction of Bartfeld they are mo in stead y forward on a front of about twentj fve m es and the enemy e, f apparently is concentrat ng efforts on an Cff at empt to check hem here by str king a i a flanking blow toward Strvj All at i tacks ho e er ha e been conistenti repulsed. BR A ser es of documents captured at 3g Przemsl a published here Replying to ifi; a eeg am from Genera Kusmanek a s nounc lg tha he garrison was preparing i or a or tie, Empe or Franz Joseph sent express ons of at sfaction and good wishes and sent his b essings to the Regrets Failure V The report of the fallure'brihe sortl K a ew from the monarch the folowin K te egram K It Is a severe b ow to me that the K gallant attempt of the garrison to break K out suffered failure. Nevertheless I re m- gard with pr de the Incomparable bravery K of the warr ors to whom success was not K vouchsafed. J . I thank those who took part in th s j battle wi h all my heart and b ess the 15 memory of those who gave up the r lives, ft History will s ng their praises for they kept up the r hearts until the last. |