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Show AUSTRIAN FORCES LOSE SUMMITS Troops Thrown Back to Plains of Hungary Attempt Two Outflanking Movements. RUSSIAN'S TACTICS i Lead Enemy on to Close Range and Completely Rout Them in Bayonet Charge. Petrograd. April 22. 12 V. p m , via London, A 30 p. m Thrown back from the principal summits of the Carpathian Car-pathian mountains to the plains of Hungary, the forces of Austria are now attempting to relieve the weakness weak-ness of their position along the center of the Carpathian tront. namely the Mezolaborcz-Lupkow region, by two parallel outflanking movements, one operating In the direction of Stry, which is trying to bend back the Russian Rus-sian left, and the other In the vicinity of Gorlice in an effort to surround the Russian right. The results of these attempts have been officially announced in Petrograd Petro-grad The tactics of the Russian forces for-ces were to invite the enemy to advance ad-vance by non-resistance Not a shot was fired until the range was very close. The Russians then suddenh charged with the bayonet, with the result re-sult that the Austrians wore completely com-pletely routed, the Russians taking an unusually large number of prisoners prison-ers By the same tactics the Russians Rus-sians near Polen captured an entire Austrian battalion with Its full complement com-plement of officers. In a stubborn battle near Koziouv-ka, Koziouv-ka, April If and April 20, the Austrians Austri-ans took an elevated position in the face of a strong Russian defense, but after two hours of possession they w-re forced to give up the position Austrian efforts along the river Stry are continuing to develop, but so far without decisive results. |