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Show : SOLDIERS FLEE II jlLICM , Muscovites Drive :;rceJ of Germany's . y Through Passes Carpathians; Retir- ; Army Numbers ;5,00O; Cold Makes jvalry Inactive. JJROW PASSES BLOCK PURSUIT ;ort From Tunoff ;vs300 Bosnian Slavs "rew Down Arms .'pon Meeting Russian "oops and Cheered :rCzar; Many Prison's Prison-'s Taken. I733A. ly Tireless to Lon-.-t 30, 7:59 a, m. An official 1 l-vvn giTea out dt tie -.; i?vi;;irtrs adsuts a retreat - a laslans In QaUcia. The, cli Esjsia ir7, trhici r.: i ?eS ao eornresctd an :ciTj ipi-st tiose cf cor forces : .i iid crcsse-i tis Cirpa'iiaas, ji!crtiiorced with suppieinen-t suppieinen-t .7 -:ps scJ fresh divisions in ti i rjter tiat it is necessary :33 r.tidraw oar troops along j .;.- esm front arid ia tp - tf Gcriice (just norta of tio Xi'iia izi to the eist of Xowy iii Tie situation ia the north ::i beai itrisenced thereby. "z tie Biiaa theater the Hoa-ns Hoa-ns sirred great but ensnc-s- scirtty. A weak attack at --"s, in Eerzegoviiia, near the lis repaired easily. The -Tigris' artillery tad no ef-a ef-a tie strong fortress of 7 Am-nient W!h Lon-ioa DilJ '-03AD, Dee. 29. Tie state-: state-: isrM tcrighi by the Russian I indicates that Marshal Ton ! r--'l'i army west of VariaTr has Hra to feel the effects of the to tie- Austriaas in South Po-ia Po-ia Galicia, and that the Ens- - frost of Warsaw have seized :' nt to attack. 'Dsie Mchoiaa reports that the s rithirew from a line of ice right bank of the c-3 were driven from a village , .."' jaT;:a- Heavy artillery fighting - oa and the Germans are mak-v-irp coanter-attacks. r Math the Kussian offensive v"?58 "pidly. Along the upper -Mae Germans were defeated and ;'l-Ue Galidaa border the Russians tie Xida, defeated the Aus-",t,4I(1 Aus-",t,4I(1 ?aPturc"i many prisoners. Galicia the Russian advance - -racow i5 progressing. ;rians Routed. ; ; re"eat of the defeated Austrian -. m;mated at 175,000 men, toward :path:an passes it is officially re-J-i as developed into an utter ',. . e rear of the hurrying column ,:-Ms over forty miles east and raigrod through Dukla and L,!k,?- It in beginning to . . smaUer sections to takS ad-:d-H ier,six passes which lead ;..'' 'nto Hungary. u .; "'nans are now practically out ljy ljt rear attacks 'from ' t, '"ans, as the narrow tn!m mere trails, ef- ' Prevented any flanking 'move- ..j''ofi'lently believed that the fv "ta on the Austrian '" "'ffr i 'Slve as tLat which the " ' ,r i Wr-rvia, and the com-:tirr com-:tirr lnt0 wnich they have . "P " r'-garded as proof that w'tho r'!rjrKani.ing this extreme iha-, Austro-Cerman armies will -tii ooe a,ul Jikc'y to consume 'te" R"il,n 'y- that the -14, r -S3 "rau admitB the '5 'i''i"'r "f , PrtMn. taken. Sit,- ir,-', ''' oWi:ri. toe-ether - """'n yirig, bollevc-d here Continued on Pag7"Two3; IQENERAL ANGELES, who will soon be j - made provisional president of Mexico to . replace Gutierrez. Angeles is a close friend of ; General Villa. I . ----'"".. - A) --"''" ' - - 'T ' . '.'- ;. ' " .- 1 11 --' vx -.,...-.' f!:::,. i , i f f f " i. -..'W ,,- ,- ."j -i s- : - ...... t v . , .. !j '. ' " - " . ,-'" -.,.. ' . C b ; V- ':, V- ., --... ; i ';;: -' V 1 . ... . 'v . .-. . - . - " - .- v..' A x v - . .'is RUSS FORGE AUSTINS ' TO RETREAT i Retiring" Troops Suffer From Cold, Mountain Passes Prevent Pre-vent Attacks on Flanks, Take Many Prisoners (Continued from Page One ) , to indicate t at the Austrlans are not offer ng a stubborn rear guard resistance The as three o s cons st ng of 600 men each of Austr a pr sone s taken to Kiev from southern Ga c a contain num bers of n en who are unwounded but were made unfit for sen ce by frozen feet Most of the prisoners are between 40 and 60 vears of age The off c al Army Messenger says that 300 Slavs f om Bosn a and Herze gov na encountered Russian soldiers near Tunoff Ga ic a and t rew down their arms crying Long live tl e czar S rice the r latest defens ve began the Russ ans have taken 60 000 Austrlans pr soners and captured many guns ac cord ng to the Russ an off cla report and if as was estimated Austria had between four and five army corps on Its re entry into Ga ic a it must a e lost more than a third of the number In killed wounded and prisoners The state of the roads leading into the j passes which are deep Li mud has. pre-i pre-i vented he Russ ans f on nak ng t e pur su t as effect ve as t might have been I cou d the Cossacks have found a firm footing for the r l o ses Germans Repulsed A though for fo tj e ght hou s there 1 as been no se ous f g ng on t e eft bank of the "V stu a f ont pa al attacks have been made by the Ge mans and these were everywl ere epu sed Sout east of Sk e n ew ce was the most ser ous attac for the e the Germans hav ng abandoned the attempts nade at many po nts to force a passage ac oss the r ve s are now try ing to d ive a way thro gh the reg on be tween the upper reaches of the Rakaw and ter ver Pi ca They ave had no approach to success and ave lost more 1 ea I y here dur ng the ast forty e gh ou s t an n the r other pa a attacks Between the Pi ca and the upper reac es of the istu a a attacks have ceased f om the enemy and It s now t e Russ ans who have assun ed t e ac t e offensi e In th s reg on they have entire y c eared the easte n bank of the N da river by the capture of the obsti nate y defended Austrian posit on at the vi age of Sz tn kl whe was aken by storm bouth of the stula or astride It on the front from Opatow across the Baa river to B ecz the sweeping process has 1 kewlse begun The cone udlng paragrap of tl e grand duke s repo t contains a 1 Important In fo mat on From the German point of e the sltuat on In Poland Is the main featu e of the Russ an campa gn From the Russ an pol t of view the second vas on s a mere inc dent in the main s rateg c scheme nothing more than a d sagreeable interruption of an inevitable movement "v hatever tl e Germans and the r fr ends may saj Ga Ic a Cracow and he ne of Oder defenses remain now as three months ago the principa feature of tl e Pussian p an It therefore s regarded as of supreme mportance to note now that tl e German scheme whic called for t e transfer of troops from tl e Czenstochowa front to the Carpath ans and was met by counter movement by the Russ ans had by De cember 28 f a y resu ted In a dec sive fa ure |