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Show 00 FIERCE FIGHTING IN CARPATHIANS Petrograd, April 28 -Practically all Ihe serious fighting in the Carpathian ridge remains focused on a portion ' of the Sanck-Homonna and the StryJ-1 Munkacs railways The battle makes up in intensity what it lacks in ex-tent ex-tent Koziouvka is the center of a furi-, ous struggle which has alread been j in uninterrupted progress our or five j days. The Germans have been strain-! ing themselves to the utmost to regain re-gain hillls Olu and 1)026, which were' captured by the Russians They seem! here to have inexhaustible resources! at their disposal, and while one division di-vision waits for its attack to break on the Russian positions, another eom- posed of fresh troops rolls up. Slopes Piled With Dead. One of the fiercest of these assa-.ilts took place on Sunday morning after' a terrific preparation which lasted I right through the night but the Qer mans were met with a withering ma chine gun and rifle fire which swept them away in thousands Finally they turned and fled in disorder, leaving the slopes of the hills piled with heaps of slain The Russians In the Kosiuvek region re-gion are not confining themselves to the defeuslve On some sectors of this local front they are successfully assailing the Austro-German positions, overcoming wire entanglements and driving their opponents from the trenches with the bayonet, winning fresh peaks of strategical importance. Many Prisoners Taken. In one of the assaults an entire Austrian battaliou surrounded with its 'ommander; iu another a machine gun imd 150 prisoners. In other places the 1 ' I .-... . - ' . .Lm enemy fled from the position in panic . On? small body of Russians who had been detached to keep up a connection connec-tion with the adjoining hector Tell upon an Austrian trench unexpectedly and bayonetted nearly all th occupants occu-pants The residue. twenty-seven mpn, were captured. A very tough strucgle Is also tak " ing place for the protection of U-j-sok pass Here the Russian move-ll ment tends to envelop from both sides the village of Uzsok. which la slightly to the Hungarian side of the crest and still In the bands of the Austrians. If this is successful it win constitute a break in the Austro-German Austro-German front and probably rendpr the Koziouvka position untenable On the Qaligrfd-Homona road the Austrians have made repeated efforts " to retake the important positions near I Polena recently captured by the Russians, Rus-sians, but though they have tried toj clear a path for their artillery by a tempest of shes. they have so tar consistent; tailed and have suffered! enormous losses. oo |