Show r EN golej HOL GROUND muscovites MUST CAPTURE BEFORE THEY INVADE HUNGARY french troops hammering at both sides of wedge driven into their linee lines and also driving at german front there has been a considerable ex tension of uio the battle battlefields fleNs both in tho tile carpathian and in the IVoe vire district of fra franco lice where fighting of extreme violence continues cont ivues by day and night without howe however lio weve vei any definite dl slon having been reached the russians have made them selves masters of the principal ahalt of mountains from cukla pass to USE uza sok pass and have haie begun an attack on the german forces which hold the hills from the latter pass eastward to the beskid pass this section ot at the Carpathia ns has been the scene since early febra ary of many flerra pin encounters counters between the germans who opre sent to help the austrians in their fruit lesa less efforts to relieve przemysla and the itus russian sian army whose task it was as to hold them back until the fall of the fortress now this german army has been given another task that of trying to prevent the Ruf RU rubens BEus fItS from straighten ing out their line which Is feces essary before the invasion of hungary hungar y is undertaken it is apparent that this army has succeeded in at least checking the russian advance as the austrian official report claims r a victory for the germans in this section while the russians admit that they have been unable to capture hill which lies about midway between and beskid passes the french army in the ie is hammering at the two sides of the german wedge which was driven into the french lines as far as st mahlet early in the war aar and which thus tar has remained firm and simultaneously has attacked the german front which passes close to the tile lorrain border cr be between nancy and ond chateau salins tre to capture of les on the northern side of the wedge edge appes ra to have been beert the most marked success the arenth frech have gained after almost a f fortnights ort nights fighting although the manner in which the germans are counter a attacking in the forest of montmare Mont mare ato 0 the tile southeast would indicate that they feel the french pressure from thai thal direction most severely all the other attacks the germans laim to ha have hae e repulsed with nith heavy asses to the french staggering COST OF WAR ler ermany many has spent over two billion dollars and france almost almest aa as much M uch paris the matin summarizes tho the ermin and french war budget budgets up to larch arch 31 as fol follows lous germany gernian expenses receipts from loaff 1900 bills n the total deficit l france expenses opts from loans I 1 defense bonds bank I 1 jf f france advances to 1 pi 1 leaving a surplus of I 1 |