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Show 1 Great Battle Between Russians and German Army of Picked Men i GERMANS MEET DEFEAT AFTER HOURS OF DESPERATE FIGHTING Ruwians Drive Back Enemy Between the Stry and Valley of Ondava and Capture Arms and Ammunition Sixty-five Sixty-five Austrian Officers Disciplined for Negligence Which Resulted in Annihilation of Division of Reserves Near Bereg and Defeat of Army in Sarac Region Troops Being Be-ing Sent to Trentino. j GERMAN AVIATORS IN DAYLIGHT RAID Aeroplane Drops Bombs Within 30 Miles of London Three Aerial Attacks on Eastern Counties of England in 36 Hours Marked Activity at Airship Bases at Emden and Cuxhaven Allied Airships Throwing Bombs Behind German Lines French Battleship Bombards Syrian Coast Berlin Reports General Repulse of French Attacks. : HOLLAND STIRRED TO CORE BY I SINKING OF STEAMER KATWYK ( London, April 16, 1 : 1 2 p. m. Pronounced activities of German airships at Emden and Cuxhaven today is reported bs telegrams from Holland. An urgent call was issued in London this afternoon for special police to go on duty at 5 p. m. According to reports from Holland, three Zeppelins were seen today flying westward over Dutch islands in the North Sea. Count Zeppelin is said to be directing the movements move-ments at Cuxhaven. Geneva Switzerland. April lfi, via Paris. 4 .". p tn. The Tribune publishes pub-lishes 8 dispatch from I'ngvar. in northeastern Hungary, saying a great battle has been fought between the str?- and the valley of the Ondava. A German army composed of picked men attacked the Russians marching on Bereg. After 32 hours of severe fight ing, the Russians repulsed the Germans Ger-mans and captured a quantity of arms and ammunition. Another dispatch received here from Vienna says fi.j Austrian officers nave been disciplined for negligence which resulted in the annihilation of a division di-vision of reserves near Bereg and th" xiistrian defeat in the Sarac region Th announcement also is made In Geneva, that Austrian troops from thp Serbian frontier are being sent lo the 'j- Trentino, and that a number of them (fl already have passed through Sals X n, French War Report. qx Paris April 16, via London, 1:56 p. ni The French official communl B j cation given out by the war office jj this afternoon adds nothing to the communication issued last night except ex-cept the following "Our artillery brought down the afternoon of April 15 a German aero - plane which fell In front of the Eng- lish lines behind the German trenches P north of Vpres" It has nU as yet been conclusively determined whether one or two Uer-lj Uer-lj man aeroplanes took part in the raid I in Kent this afternoon. The reports, i however. Indicate the presence of a single machine. The (Jerman machine, which was of Hi- biplane type, flew also over Sheer j ness There the anti-aircraft guns Uteri on it and the machine was seen ! suddenly to dip The spectators thought it had been winged and i cheered wildly The aeroplane however, recovered and again ascended Then it trav- eled at a high speed across the Isle of Sheppey, at the mouth of th? Thames, and escaped to the open i, ' .nn Apparently no bombs were dropped on Sheernes British aeroplanes are said to have ; tone in pursuit of the machine which I I appeared over Sittingbourne. Bombs Dropped at Midday Ixindon. April lfi. 2 p m -It Is re ported that a German aeroplane at midday todav dropped bombs near Horner Bay in K-mt, six miles from Canterbury. Heme Bay is a town and water place on an estuary of tpeThames With a population of about 7000. It i fifty miles in an airline from I.on don. The damage done b tie German aeroplanes in Kent has boen aegligi- blc, so far as is known up to the present time. Two bombs were dropped on Faversham. but no damage dam-age resulted. The aeroplane which dropped Dcmbs on Faversham was shot at DJ local marksmen but their aim appar ently was poor. Flying over Sittingbourne the air men dropped another bomb but the only result was the digging of n hob' In 'an orchard Siill anolJier bot ib wsr dropped into a cha'k quarry. T up German machine then started lor th'J I sea by way of Deal, from which direction direc-tion it had appeared over Kent French Bombard Syrian Coast. Paris, April 16 12:20 p. m An official of-ficial statement issued today by the French ministry of marine said Yesterday morning a French battleship bat-tleship destroved the railway bridge on the line which joins the interior regions of Syria with the city of Saint lean d'Arc." Review of War Situation. London April IB, 12 2 P ra. German Ger-man aeroplanes this afternoon were dropping bombs in Kent within thirty miles of London The machines first made their appearance ap-pearance over Heme Bay to the east of Canterbury and about fifty miles from London Wlrhln a few minutes they were reported over Canterbury closer to the capital, and very' shortly afterwards they appeared over Faversham Faver-sham and then over Sittingbourne not more than thirty miles away, dropping bombs on each town Third Aerial Attack. This was the third German aerial attack on the eastern counties of England in the last 36 hours The two previous attacks were made at night by Zeppelin airships This raid was carried out by aeroplanes. Aerial onslaughts, however, have not been limited to the Germans French official reports claim a successful suc-cessful bombardment from the skv or the imperial German headquarters In I retaliation for a Zeppelin assault on Nancy A German wireless report credits to a Swiss newspaper the statement that French airmen have dropped bombs on several German towns unprotected by anti-aircraft guns London Not Immune London no longer considers it6e!f immune from air raiders of the Zeppelin Zep-pelin type H Is realized also that even aeroplanes could bombard the City. Zeppelins on their recent night raids have traveled further from their Cuxshaven base than the distance from Cuxshaven to London and aeroplanes aero-planes thirty miles from the capital and choosing their own course, have brought a new conception of the effective ef-fective range of this type of machine Nevertheless the public Is skeptical f the powers for harm of Zeppelins, the trifling damage done during the i night rald6 of Wednesday and Thun-jda Thun-jda being cited in Justification of this I feeling. II would appear that the I latest air raiders have used bombs of Inn Inceudiary. rather than an explosive, explo-sive, thara' I ( r French Claim Victory In the land operations, the French claim a "brilliant" success north of ArraS, which completes the gain made near there last month. The German position according to the report giv-BU giv-BU out officially in Farls. was takn at the point of the bayonet On the heights of the Muse the Germans evidently are beginning n movement to retake Lea Sparges Rorlin claims to have repulsed all the French attacks along the western tront thuH putting an end to the I , ,, h offensive which vva planned 0 make 91 Mlhlel untenable On the eastern front neither side to be making any headway The lack of definite news from this rena of war is filled by a crop of rumors which agree only on one point, namely that great events are Impending Im-pending in the east In the east the Russians have takpn up the attack along the Warsaw front after the long winter lull They claim the capture of a village near Sochac-zow, Sochac-zow, about thirty miles Trom the Polish Po-lish capital In the vicinity of Osso-weti, Osso-weti, near the Prussian frontier, fighting fight-ing also has been resumed Holland is stirred deeply by the sinking of the Dutch steamer Katwyk. bearing a cargo consigned to the government gov-ernment of The Netherlands. The Dutch marine ministry after an investigation inves-tigation expressed the opinion that the vessel was sunk by a German subma rfne. Berlin War Statement Berlin, pril 16. by wireless lo Say-ville. Say-ville. N. V The statement from the war office today is as follows: "From near Ostend and Nieuport some enemy destroyers took part yesterday in artillery lighting but were quickly silenced. "On the southern border of St Eloi we occupied two houses. South of Lorelle height fighting began again last night. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle Mo-selle only artillery duels took place. Mofc Deadly Bombs Used. "The use of bombs developing asphyxiating gas and of explosive infantry in-fantry cartridges by the French Is dally becoming more frequent. "Av iafors were unusually active yesterday, yes-terday, as the weather was favorable Hostile aviators threw bombs on pla ces oenind the derman Iront pTie-burg pTie-burg also was visited. At this place several civilians, including children were killed or wounded. ' On the eastern front the situation Is unchanged In skirmishes near Kalwrya (Russian Poland) In the last few days 1,040 Russians wore taken prisoners and seven machine guns were captured." French Aviators Drop Bombs Basel. April 16, via Berlin and wireless wire-less to London. 10: 15 a. m. French aviators dropped bombs near Krotzin-gen Krotzin-gen and on illingen and Donaueschin-gen. Donaueschin-gen. town:. In Baden, on April 13 BC cording to the National Zeitung. These places are said to he without anti aircraft guns The French official Btatetneni issued is-sued last night stated that aviators had bombarded the station of Prei-burg-Im-BreiBgau about thlrtj miles west of the places mentioned by the National Zeitung |