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Show RUSSIAN ADVANCE HAS BEENGHEGKED 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. Tiicro has been a considerable extension ex-tension of tho battlefields both ln the Carpathian and in tho Woevro district of iFranco, -whero fighting of oxtrome violenco continues by day and night without, howovor, any deflnlto decision deci-sion having been reached. Tho Russians havo mado themselves them-selves masters of tho principal chalb of mountains from Dukla pass to Uz-Bok Uz-Bok pass nnd have begun an attack on the German forces which hold the hlllB from the lattor pass eastward tc tho Doskld pass. This section of tho Carpathian! Jias been tho scono slnco early Febru ary of many ilerco ncounterB bo-twoen bo-twoen tho Germans, who woro sen! to help tho Austrlans in their fruit less efforts to relievo Przomysl, and tho Russian army, whoso task it wai to hold them back until tho fall of the fortress. . Now this Gorman army has (boer Klven another task that of trying tc prevent tho Russians from straighten lng out tholr lino, which Is neces ossary before tho invasion of Hungary is undertaken, it is apparent thai this army has succeeded ln at lens) checking tho Russian advance, as the Austrian official report claims a vlo tory for tho Germans in this section whllo the Russians admit that the; havo been unable to capturo hill 002 which lies about midway between Uzsok and Beskid passes. The French army in tho Woevro it hammering at tho two Bides of the German wedge, which -wns driven intc tho French lines as far ns St. Mlhle early in tho war, and which thus fai lias remained firm, and simultaneously lias attacked tho German front which passes closo to tho Lorrnln bop der between Nancy and Chateau Sa Una. Tho capturo of Les Sparges on the northern sldo of tho wedgo appears tc have been tho most marked succcs tho Fronch have gained after almost t fortnight's fighting, although tho man ner ln which tho Germans aro counterattacking counter-attacking in tho forest of Montmarc to tho southeast, would indicate that they feol tho French pressure from that direction most soveroly. All tho other attacks tho German! claim to havo repulsed with hoavj losses to the French. |