Show RUSSIAN ADVANCE HAS BEEN CHECKED HOLD GROUND muscovites ES MUST CAPTURE BEFORE THEY INVADE HUNGARY french troops hammering at both sides of wedge driven into their lines and also driving at german front there has been a considerable ex tension of the battlefields both in the carpathian and in tho the district of trance franco where fighting of extreme violence continues by day and night without however any definite decision having been reached the russians have made themselves masters of the principal chat 1 of mountains from cukla pass to uz sok eok pais pass and have begun an atta attack ck on it the tha german forces which hold the hills from the latter pass eastward to the beekie beaked pass this section of the Carpathia ns has been the scene since early febria ax ary y of many fierce encounters between the germans who were sent to help the Aust austrians rians in their fruitless efforts to relieve przemysla and the russian army whose task it was to hold them back until the fall of the fortress now this german army has haa given another task that of trying to prevent the russians from straightening out their line which I 1 Is 8 feces essary before the invasion of hungary la is undertaken it Is apparent that this army has succeeded in at least checking the russian advance as the austrian official report claims a victory for the germans in this section while the russians admit that th they ey have been unable to capture hill which lies about midway b between e tw oe unbok and beskid passes the french army in the Is hammering at the two sides of the german wedge which was driven into the french lines as far as st fit mihiel early ta la the war and which thus tar far has remained firm and simultaneously has attacked the german front which passes close to the lorrain border between nancy and chateau sauna salins the capture of les Sp arges on the northern side of the wedge appears to have been the tha most marked success the french have gained after almost a fortnights fort nights fighting although the manner in which the germans are counter attacking in the forest of montmare Mont mare to the southeast Booth east would indicate that they feel the french pressure from that direction most severely all the other attacks the germans claim to have repulsed with heavy losses to the french |