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Show GREAT TASK OF THEJUSSIANS Petrograd, April 18.. via London. April 19. 116 a m The following official communication concerning the progress of the campaign was Issued from general headquarters "At the beginning of March in the principal chain of the Carpathians wo held onl the region of the Dukla passes, where our lines formed an exterior ex-terior angle All other passes of Lupkow Lup-kow and further east were In tha hands of the enemy. "In view of this situation our armies were assigned the further task of developing, de-veloping, before the season of bad roads due to melting snow began, our position in the Carpathians, which dominated the outlets into the Hungarian Hun-garian plains. Grand Attack Planned. "About the period indicated, the great Austrian forces which had been concentrated for the purpose of relieving re-lieving Przeraysl were In a position between Lupkow and Uzsok pass It was for this sector that our grand r.t tack was planned. Our troops had to carr out a frontal attack under very difficult conditions of terrain. To fa-j fa-j cllltatc their attack, therefore, an aux-l aux-l iliary attack was decided upon on a front In the direction of Bartfeld as far as Lupkow. "This secondary' attack was opened March 19, and was completeh developed. devel-oped. On March 23 and 28 our troops hao" already begun their principal at j tack In direction of Baligrod envp)- oping the enemy positions from west of Lupkow pass, and on the east near the source of the San 'The enemy opposed a most desperate desper-ate resistance to our offensive They ! had brought up every aailable man on the front from the direction of Bartfeld as far as Czsok pass, In- eluding even German troops and num-; num-; bers of cavalrymen fighting on foot, i The enem's effectiveness on this front exceeded 400 battalions. ( An Austrian or German battalion num-; num-; bers 1.00ft men i Moreover, our ! troopv had to overcome great natural , difficulties at every step ' Nevertheless, by April 5, that Is, 'eighteen days after the opening of our offensive. the bravery of our troops enabled us to complete the task assigned and we had seized the principal chain of the Carpathians on a front between Reghetoy and Volos-I Volos-I ate, of 110 versts (about seventy-fhe miles). I "The ightlng subsequently has been j in the nature of actions in detail Intended In-tended to consolidate the success won "To sum up On the whole Carpathian Car-pathian front between March 19 and) April 12 the enemy has suffered i enormous losses and has left in our' hands in prisoners alone at least 70,-cOO 70,-cOO men, including 900 officers. Fur ! ther we have captured thirty guns and 2i0 machine guns "On April 16 the actions in the O'nr-; O'nr-; pathianr, were concentrated in the di- j rection of Rostoki. The pnemy, despite de-spite the enormous losses suffered. 1 delivered in the course of that da.l ! no less than sixteen attacks in t:reat strength. These attacks, all of which were absolutelv barren of result, were made against the heights wp have occupied further to the east of Tele-potch. Tele-potch. Many Prisoners Taken. "Our troops during the night of April 1617, after a desperate fight stormed and captured a height to the southwest of the village of Poden. where we took man prisoners Three counter-attacks delivered by the ene-1 my against this height wor repulsed. "'In the other sectors all along the front there has been no change. ' |