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Show GERMANS DEFEAT RUSS1 FORCES THE CARPATHIAN CAMPAIGN OF GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS IS COMPLETE FAILURE. Battle Front of Muscovites Rolled Up by a Flanking Movement and More Than Fifty Thousand Prisoners Taken by Austrians. The strategic achievement of rolling roll-ing up a hostile battle front by a flanking attack, of which Chancellors-ville Chancellors-ville is one of the few successful examples ex-amples in modern history, is now in full progress in west Galicia, according accord-ing to advices from Vienna. Favored by continued good weather, mile after mile of the Russian Carpathian front has been rendered untenable by the steady, unchecked Austro-German advance. The Austriaa cavalry and infantry followed the Gorilce turnpike and have already reached the Wisloka river. The supporting artillery dropped shells on the road from Zmi-grod Zmi-grod to Jaslo, one of the principal lines of the retreat for the Russians in the Dukla region. The Russian forces have been in full retreat since dawn of May 5 and are being closely followed by the Austrian Carpathian army, according to official advices reaching here. More than 50,000 prisoners pris-oners have already been captured by the Austrians in west Galicia. Field Marshal von Hoetzendorf's plan is working out with precise regularity regu-larity with respect to this section of the front. Confidence is expressed by headquarters that the principal portion por-tion of the Russian army under General Gen-eral Radko Dimitrieff, which is attempting at-tempting to defend positions in the Carpathians to the west of Lupkow pass, cannot make good its retreat. Progress on the northern half of the front is slower. The Russians are holding hold-ing desperately to Tarnow and Wal mountain a fortified crest 1,500 to 2,-)0il 2,-)0il feet high, between the Biala and Dunajec rivers to enable them to get ?reat quantities of stores accumulated behind Tarnow away and cover the retirement re-tirement of the armies to the southward. |