Show RUSSIAN AMANGE P U HOLD GROUND muscovites MUST C CAPTURE BEFORE THEY INVADE HUNGARY french blench troops hammering at both sides of wedge driven into their lines and also driving at german front there has haa been a cons considerable Id erable extension of the battlefields both in the carpathian end in the district of franco france where fighting ol of extreme violence continues by day and night without however any definite decision having been reached the russians nu salana have made themselves masters asters ro ot of the principal chaab of mountains from cukla pass to uz sok pass and have be begun gun an attach on the german forces which hold the hills from the latter pass eastward st ard to tc the beekie pass pasa this section of the Carpathia ns pas fias been the scene since early febra axy ot of many fierce encounters te be tween the germans who were sent to help the austria lans s in m their fruit less efforts to relieve przemysla and the russian army whose task I 1 it t war wai to hold them back until the tall fall ot of thi the fortress now th this Is german army has beer given another task that of 0 trying to tc prevent the russians from straighten ing out their line which Is nieces essary before the invasion of hungar la Is undertaken it la is apparent that this army has succeeded in at least checking the russian advance as aa the th austrian official report claims a vio t lory cry tor for the germans in this section while the russians admit that th the ea have been unable to capture hill 9 92 which lies about midway between and beskid passes the french army in the ivo evre it bam hammering merIng at the two sides of t the he german wedge which was driven inoc the french lines as aa tar far as st fit althie early in the war and which thus fat fai has remained firm and simultaneous lias has attacked the german front which passes close to the lorrain bor der between nancy and chateau sa una lina the capture of les on th northern side of the wedge appears to tc have been the most marked the french have gained after almost i fortnights fort nights fighting although the man ner in which the germans are counter attacking in the forest ot of indicate thai they tea feel tho the fre french rich pressure frore that direction most severely all the other attacks the germans german claim to have repulsed with heava losses to the french |