Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-28 | Page 2 | Austrians Set Little Town of Zboro on Fire

AUSTRIANS SET LITTLE TOWN OF ZBDHDDR FIRE Russians Make Considerable Advance in Carpathians, Enemy Being Compelled to Fall Back FORTIFIED HEIGHT TAKEN BY ASSAULT j Counter Attacks Repelled , and About 2500 Prisoners, Besides Several Machine Guns, Captured PETEOGEAD via London March 27 11 40 p m. The following official statement from general headquarters was issued tonight West of the middle Niemen on the nght bank of the Karew and on the left bank of the Vistula, there has been no essential change is the situation In the Carpathians we hare made considerable progress in the direction of Bartfeld. The Anstnans in falling back set Are to the village of Zboro "In the direction of Baligrod we have carried a fortified height east of Bavoljetz. Near Ensskedyinva and Kozaonwka we successfully repelled im portant forces of the enemy During the course of the day we made prison ejs of about 2500 Austrian soldlere besides be-sides forty officers and we captured seven machine guns. In eastern Galicia we drove back a battalion which crossed the Dniester near Jojava, inflicting very heavy losses The following supplementary official statement was issued tonight The German press asserts that the garr son of Przemysl did not exceed So 000 men that the supplies would have lasted a long time if the garrison had not been compelled to share its eeanty rations with an enormous num ber of Eussian prisoners captured dur ing the course of sort es that the fall of Przemysl has no military importance and that the Euss ans have destroyed 300 towns and villages in Galicia of which 250 were razed to the ground All such assertions are malicious invent ons We captured at Przemysl an army of about 123 000 Its detailed compos tion and the names of the lead ers will be publ shed immediately they are compiled The Btfssians whom we liberated at Przemysl numbered only 13o0 most of them wounded. The importance the enemy attached to Przemysl may be -judged by the in numerable sacrifices made in attempts to relieve the gamson dating back to November lo town ot village in Ga hcja was destroyed or razed '