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Show FUm2VcSc?iDAY ATTACK ON THE RUSSIANS ENDS IN AUSTRIAN DEFEAT ! MION BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND , I ITALV NEAR BREAM! POINT Vienna Seyenng Remaining Ties Barring Out-break Out-break of Hostilities London Attaches Highest Importance to Movements of Italy Hostilities Hos-tilities on Austrian Frontier Would Close Door of Supply to Germany. GERMANS ABANDON OFFENSIVE IN FRANCE Austrian and Teutons Decide to Concentrate All Their Forces on Eastern Frontier Heavy Artillery Before Verdun to Be Removed to Poland and Hungarian Cavalry to Be Sent Back to Cracow Petro-grad Petro-grad Claims Russian Successes Along 75-mile Front With Capture of 70,-000 70,-000 Austrians Berlin Says Allies' Reports are Inventions. Inven-tions. FRENCH TROOPS MAKE IMPORTANT GAINS IN THE ALSACE REGION London. April 1 9, 4 : 25 p. m. The British trawler Vanilla Vanil-la was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine in the North Sea yesterday, according to a report made today by Cspt Hill, skipper of the trawler Fermo. Captain Hill said he was within 300 yards of the Vanilla 1 when she was struck. He made an attempt to pick up the crew, but he declares that the submarine attacked him in his effort at rescue. It fired a torpedo at the Fermo which forced her to seek safety in flight. Petrograd, April 19, via London, 3:30 p. m. Austrian attacks on the heights of the Mezolaborcz district of Hungary, where the Austrians for six days have been furiously attempting attempt-ing to regain positions recently taken by the Russians, appear to have definitely subsided. The attacks, which exceeded in violence any action on this front, reached their greatest intensity on April 17 when sixteen assaults are reported to have been made on that one day. The encounters ended in the evening in a desperate bayonet charge and sustained hand-to-hand encounters which left the Russians, according to reports received by the Russian Rus-sian officials, firmly ensconced on the height of Telepotch. After this the Austrian attack appeared to have spent itself and there are no indications of a resumption of activity in this region. Austrian assaults upon the other important height in the east Beskids, namely Zeloe, were repulsed chiefly by the fire of rifles and machine guns. After three sharp counter attacks at-tacks the Austrians here, too, gave up the attempt to regain the summit. On the northern front the swampy condition of the thaw-ipg thaw-ipg ground prevents operations on a large scale. Berlin, April 19, by wireless to Sayville, N. Y.--The report re-port on the progress of hostilities given out today by German headquarters relates that Lieutenant Roland G. Garros the famous French aviator, has been made a prisoner by the Germans Ger-mans at Ingelmunster, Belgium, seven miles north or Courtsai. Lieutenant Garros has flown in many competitions in ' the United States. . . .v Since the beginning of the war he has been among the : most daring of the French airmen. His Y I Dunkirk three days ago when he shot dead m the mr the av-tor av-tor and the observer of a German aeroplane. He went out against this mach.ne alone and as his machine was the faster he was able to gain an advantageous position. Born at Capetown. 1 i i f rr,nrh Darents at Capetown. Union Garros was born ot rrencn parem r j . of South Africa, in 1 885. He is a graduate of the Uruve -ty of Paris and of the Law University of Pans and for a tune practiced his profession in the French capital light made on December I , B altitude mark; ; height of 19.032 : feet and - Jffi, ,912 when he A his flight from Tunis to biciiy in s traveled 160 miles entirely over water and his g 1 the Mediterranean 558 miles, from St. Kapnae troops marching from the south to the north In the direction of the Focht and Metzerol. which is southwest of Colmar. in this district we made an important gain with the occupa tion of a series of elevations, the" northernmost height of which com mands the course of the Fecht n front of Burgkorpfeld. German Division Captured. "In the cotirBo of this action we captured a division of mountain artillery, ar-tillery, two cannon of 74 millimeters caliber and two machine guns. "The German aeroplanes which flew over Belfort recently dropped four bombs. These did some damage to two hangars and set fire to lour chests of powder No casualties resulted re-sulted nor was an serious damage done " Berlin War Statement. Berlin, April 19. by wireless to Sayville, Say-ville, N. Y German headquarters this afternoon gave out a report on the progress of hostilities as follows: "To the south of Yprcs the British were yesterdav ejected from the minor mi-nor positions stiil occupied by them in this locality. British attacks along the railroad between Ypres and Corn-mines Corn-mines broke down with very heavy losses to them. "Near Celmunster. Lieutenant Garros, Gar-ros, a French aviator, has been made prlsonor. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle Mo-selle there have been artillery duels "French attacks against our position posi-tion at Combre8 and !n the Yosges resulted In failure. "On the eastern front the situation remains unchanged. "French and British reports concerning con-cerning victories on the western front are all inventions, as it is sufficiently proved by the regular reports from German headquarters. " Review of War Situation. London, April 19. 1:55 p m. Whether the negotiations between Rome and Ylenna concerning Italy's demands for territorial concessions have been broken off remains for the moment an official secret, but It appears ap-pears to be universally agreed that the tension is approaching the breaking break-ing point It is suggested here that the Italian foreign office Is awaiting an ultimatum from Vienna on the subject sub-ject of Italy's military preparations alone the frontier as a pretext to severing sev-ering the remaining ties barring an outbreak of hostilities The nlertr.eps with which every move, diplomatic or otherwise, made by Italy Is now followed in Iondon, Indicates the high importance attached attach-ed here to effbns to bring Italv to the fighting line. One of the main reasons advanced for this desire to include Italv In the partnership of the allies is that in no other way Is it possible pos-sible to Hose effectually the door through which supplies still are reaching reach-ing the Teutonic allies in considerable amount A case in point is the confiscation by the Swiss authorities announced in Geneva today, of a carload of machine ma-chine guns of American manufacture, which was on the way to Germanv from Genoa Shipments of Iron, copper, cop-per, antimony and sulphate have been reaching Germany with a fair degree of regularity Germans to Leave France. Abandonment by the German general gen-eral staff of plans for a general offensive offen-sive in France in inferred In Rome from information received there. It is said that thi6 decision is Indicated b official communications to the Italian Ita-lian cabinet as well as by statements of Germans in official circles and that hope of penetration further into French territory has been put aside. A dispatch from Geneva gives the impression that the Austrian and Germans Ger-mans have decided to concentrate their energies on the eastern campaign cam-paign It is said at a council of war presided over by Field Marshal von Hlndenburg It was determined to transfer the Austrian heavy artillery now before Verdun to Poland and to send back to Cracow, western Gallcla, the Hungarian cavalry now on the western front. Conflicting War Reports. The situation still is to bo cleared up Confident assertions from Berlin last week that the Russian advance In the Carpathian regions had been halted are offset by the claim of the Petrograd war office that the principal princi-pal chain of the mountains, comprising compris-ing a 75-mile section of the front, is now in possession of the Russians and that 70.000 Austrians have been captured in the last few weeks. It is said in Petrograd that the move ment toward the interior of Hungary will be resumed after the troops have been rested and reinforced The Austrian Aus-trian war office, however, maintains that tlie Austro-German forces are gaining further victories Embargo on Food Suppliei. dispatch from Geneva today states that a sudden embargo has been placed on a trainload of supplle-t at Como and that Italy and Rumania have taken Join action in refusing to allow foodstuffs for the civilian pop ulation of Austria Hungary to traverse their territories. Although there has been much fighting fight-ing In both the eastern and western fields, operations on a big scale are still awaiting improvement In the weather on the one side and an adequate ade-quate supply on the other. Great Battle Imminent. Indications In both Poland and In the Carpathians are that the greatest battle yet to be fought is imminent and the coming clash in the Carpathians Carpathi-ans will coincide with a great (Icrraaa advance from the direction of Cracow. Activities iu the Dardanelles are taken in presage SIl important movement move-ment anj Ia now against ih Turkish Turk-ish positions on the Dardanelles. |