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Show flBlliS CONTINUE DRIVE !W CHICK s Cross the Sereth River ; South of Brody and Consolidate Positions; ; Capture Two Villages, - a Wood, a Height and 1200 Prisoners. ; AUSTR1ANS WIN IN CARPATHIANS Muscovites Beaten Back in Mountain Pass Southeast of Kuty; Declare De-clare They Were Attacked At-tacked by Superior - Numbers. - LOXICX. Aaj. 5. Their advance in 7cIhTnia checked east of Kovel, toe - fcs: curing the last twentv-foar ri rtsiae-i their drive in northeast : kl:::a. !:c:h of Brody, crossed the - ire: 5e:e:h near its headwaters, north- Hit ef Zi!cu, captured two villages. i and a height and took 1200 timers. 'i::e counter attacks by the terj Fere beaten oSE and the ground - iiec is f:m:y held, tonight's Russian tt: cf::e statement asserts. r 7"? southward swing of the Russians I tie northeast of the Austrian crown-ci, crown-ci, pushed along the border in the di-wtica di-wtica of Tarnopol. is aimed at driving - iweife between the Austrian army deeding de-eding Lentberg and the Austrian ctrem wing, the former now com- ' uriei hy Archduke Karl, the Aus-riai Aus-riai heir apparent, the latter by G'en-raJ G'en-raJ Pfanztr-Baitin, whose extreme . igir uing stands in the Carpathian - i;es. , oss Sereth River. Thit the crossing of the Sereth was ' u:e i:om north to south, on the small R!:t at the river's head, and not from - it to west, in the direction of Lem- - t?. i shown by this afternoon 's of-'-! Berks report, which speaks of .. k "southern bank" of the river, -y at its headwaters does a "south- " "ark" exist, the river flowing from to south after "bending northwest f Zaiosze. . Beth Eerlin and Vienna admit the : ts;:an crossing of the Sereth. To-s To-s official Austrian statement says . Basian3 were driven back and "at point our counter attack is proceeds' proceed-s' The German official afternoon P-t stated that the czar's forces ; "jll make a stand on the southern - ink" near the villages of ileidzvgorv ; Tchistopadv. - thc northwest of Zalosze, Berlin isede'eatei Eu!5'an attacks were re- r 'Dstrians Win in Hills. ' ipt.'i6 Cai7'a'tMans the fortunes of -- it"''; !'"ldenly swung around to , -?-"tr?Hungarian forces. There 'Motions tr,at the Piianzer-Baltin ir,. T,'- re"uPerated from the initial '- r-r .General Brussiloff's drive and P.t f?r a counter offensive, ran v a;lm'ed officially this aft-' aft-' l ' at the Rsians operatina to zi,u;nwe,st of Kut-V- 'he iiialv : ion A if' 1,avo Wn "forced back a r',3 nce t0 tne southeast." The : ttinV10n Klven s that "nearly a di--' hmII iKf hurle,t foard against the , I ""'"try detachments" occupv-8 occupv-8 lb mountain passes. In view of ,,, u'"! hi'siai. claims that the . "ro-Hiingarian southern wing was isht . ':es and ,J"ven into a wild if, 't;:':' ref"e in the Carpathian fX arfstT intact freSh t0 X'i'l.'of Ik'. 'hc ofir:iai "ports five de. t; . present status east of Kovel, R-s-i- L.ln,1W?en vesterdav forced od V'.' ""'rawal of between 400 - tp.cted t v next f,!W davs are 'oat " i .r,nz a decision on this u(l Tl ofr"'lal Austrian statement, n the V"'iav' sav,, Russian attacks ;?u1.l,ne failc,i- and a'Ms "re o,i,i nmy "'as considerablv n".p..i ' thl3 b,;,n? ascribed to his Staff Changes. loniyht' v: "'trian , Vl0"na statement reports 'i th J,.ro,2r89 ,n thp- '-'arpathians Jplfir3f twenty-five men. (Contiaued on Page Three.) MM V GAL1G1A (Continued from Pace One.) The baltle haw extended im far ns Dela ly n, on t ho Pi ut h, t wenty inilH due west of Kol.Uiiell. The in.-r -easine; indieatioiiH of a counter coun-ter ulleriMve on n !ar;e heale by the Teuton armies in the east are eidmi denial with import :mt Mali rhinites. Field Mui'tdial von 1 1 1 n den liu i in now in supremo com ma to I and today came the news that Field Marshal von Mac-keiisen, Mac-keiisen, victor ol' the Ihtnaj hreak- I h rotili lint I lo ' ' id' lasl fall, had joined I I iinlonlmi'o. The suhst i lul ion ill the German nlli-ial reports d' the iimiin of Ar-didukc Karl lot- thai of tho Jlavurian general, Count, von I'.othliier, is not explained. ex-plained. lii' ports have it that von Hothmer lias been alielved. The Austrian heir a ppa j eat has been t ra n ;d' r red to the east trim the Italian Font, mid it is possible that Mm I lot Inner has p;ono tu that theater of war. Field .Marshal von Maekensen has not figured in tho ollit ial dispatches since mobile w a i fare in the Hal Kan rave way to entrenchment and artillery lioui-haidmentS, lioui-haidmentS, lie ih jo'iientlly helileved to he more fa mi I ia r with the Carpathian battlel'ie'd and liussinn tactics than any other general excepting Kindeiibuij;. |