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Show RUSSIAN ADVANCE HAS BEEIICHECKED HOLD GROUND MUSCOVITES 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 extension ex-tension of the battlefields both in the Carpathian and in the Woevre district of France, where fighting of extreme violence continues by day and night, without, however, any definite decl. sion having been reached. The Russians have made themselves them-selves masters of the principal chaii of mountains from Dukla pass to Uz-sok Uz-sok pass and have begun an attack on the German forces which hold the hills from the latter pass eastward to the Beskid pass. This section of the Carpathians lias been the scene since early Febru a-ry of many fierce encounters between be-tween the Germans, who were sent, to help the Austrians in their fruitless fruit-less efforts to relieve Przemysl, and the Russian army, whose task it was to hold them back until the fall of the fortress. Now this German army has ibeei) given another task that of trying to prevent the Russians from straightening straighten-ing out their line, which is neces essary before the invasion of Hungary 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 vic-tory for the Germans in this section while the Russians admit that they have been unable to -capture hill 992. which lies about midway between Uzsok and Beskid passes. The French army in the Woevre is hammering at the two sides of the German wedge, which was driven intG the French lines as far as St. Mihiei early in the war, and which thus fai has remained firm, and simultaneously has attacked the German front which passes close to the Lorrain border bor-der between Nancy and Chateau Sa-lins. Sa-lins. The capture of Les Sparges on the northern side of the wedge appears tc have been, the most marked success the French have gained afteralmost a fortnight's fighting, although the man I ner In which the Germans are counterattacking counter-attacking in the forest of Montmare J to the southeast, would indicate thai 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. |
