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Show AUSTRIANS SUFFER DEFEAT. Forced to Retire Before Fierce Russian Rus-sian Attack. London. Stubborn battles are still being fought for the passes in the Carpathian Car-pathian mountains, but elsewhere comparative com-parative calm appears to prevail. The A.ustriins in their official message Sunday morning admitted that they had been forced to retreat in the Beskid Be-skid mountains, while Sunday night they claimed to have repulsed many Russian attacks and to have taken more than 2,000 prisoners. Nevertheless it is the opinion of British military experts that the Aus-tro-German forces will have to retire to the mountains south of the Carpathian Carpa-thian range and make another effort there to prevent the Russian armies, and particularly the Cossacks, from swarming over the plains of Hungary. The Russisan army, which for months besieged the Austrian fortress 3f Przemysl and finally forced it to :apitulate, and starting westward from the Galician stronghold immediately immedi-ately after its fall, has now entered :he Beskid mountains, a range which connects the Little Carpathians with the Eastern Carpathians, where the Austrians for some time past stub-aornly stub-aornly held the passes and heights. |