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Show CELEBRATIONIS HELD IN BERLIN Rerlin, via London. May 3, ! : 35 p. m. The reports announcing a great I victory In the Carpathians today led j to the entire city of Berlin decking Itself with flags The Central Telephone Tele-phone tations the newspaper offices; and hotel? were besieged by crowds; seeking details Tho excitement began when the authorities au-thorities received orders to fly the flags "on account of a great victory in the Carpathians. " The details of the reported victor are not yet known here. London, May 3, 10:3! p m According Ac-cording to the official statements, both of Berlin and Vienna, the German Ger-man and Austrian arms have achieved a notable victory' in West Galicia, smashing the entire Russian center along a front of many miles, or, as Berlin roughly puts it, across the whole western tip of Galicia, from near the Hungarian border to the point where the river Dunajec joins the Vistula, which is right at the Iron tier of Poland. Though the 8000 prisoners whom the Teutonic allies say they have taken tak-en do not compare with the numbT which some of Field Maishal Von Hindenburg's rushes netted him in the north, tho achievement, if subsequent subse-quent reports bear it out, will mean at least a temporary check to the Russian forces which have been ham mering their way westward since the fall of Przeniysl Berlin is celebrating the victory tonight, to-night, as Is the custom there, though it Is admitted that the flags have been flov n before full details are at hand In the fighting in the Baltic prov inces a l. o, Berlin finds cause to' rejoice. re-joice. Rejecting the Russian conten tion that it is only a sporadic cav-alrv cav-alrv raid Berlin wireless comment received tonight says it seriously threatens the Russian right and the fact that troops could be moved so far northeast before they encountered resistance is considered a reflection on the Russian intelligence system. K the Austro-Gennan contentions relative to the Galiclan situation are correct, in the opinion of some of the English military writers, it will mean that the whole Russian campaign in the Carpathians is seriously affected making extremely precarious the position po-sition of the Russian troops down the southern slopes toward the plains of Hungary. The line between the Vistula and the Hungarian frontier was about forty for-ty miles east of Cracow The Austro liermans have been defending it stub bornly ever since the beginning of the Carpathian fighting The general British comment Is somewhat reserved pending the Petrograd Pe-trograd version of the operations Partial Admission. Beyond the admission in the Petrograd Petro-grad official communication that a desperate battle has been engaged in sin' e last Saturday night on the tront from the lower Xida river to the Carpathian mountains, no further news has come through concerning1 the fighting, in which both Berlin and Vienna claim a victory The reticence of the Russian of f i cial communication though it may indicate in-dicate that the battle is still unfin- ished, is considered in military circles cir-cles here to cie lonsid. cable color to the Teutonif claims a1 h-ast to the c laim of lenns which dees not place ( the victory so high as docs the Gr man communication If the Austro-German claims arc correct according to the military observers, ob-servers, the Russian ridit flank is in danger of envelopment The Russian right (lank is threatened by strong Austro-German forces, and on the Stry-Munkacs line the position is so dangerous as to be likely to involve a general retreat |