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Show By FREDERICK RENNET. Petrograd April 20. The Germans have sent large reinforcements through Moravia into North Hungary. These have now entered the action and are the vanguard of the Austrian German forces in their attempt to develop de-velop a counter-attack against the Russian positions among the hills and . illages of the southern Carpathians. About GOO, 000 Austro-German troops are now engaged there over an Irregular Irreg-ular line between the Lupkow and Uzsok passes The fighting in the middle of 'his position is ery desperate, but the Russians are slowly wearing down the ! enemy's resistance The Austrian railway system near l the Rumanian frontier has been closed I against ordinary traffic, doubtless because be-cause they are evacuating Bukowina and are bringing troops around, under un-der erman orders, into Hungary Although the Austrians have lost half a million prisoners to the Russians Rus-sians since the war began, besides a terrible total of dead and wounded, I the Magyar controllers of the A.UB-Man A.UB-Man policy know well that Germany i will not permit them to make a sep- I arate peace. Russians is in the nature of a com pi etc defeat. A reporter of the N'eues Wiener Journal says it is estimated that over 500,000 Russian soldiers have been put out of action in the Carpathians. |