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Show RUSSIAN FORCES IN SIGHT OF PROMISED LAND' Petrograd, April U. With the capture cap-ture of the last of the mam pos;-! Hons on tbe western Beskids the Russians Rus-sians now have an unbroken front of' nearly ninety miles on Hungarian1 soil From the summuits they occupy occu-py the Hungarian plain is oniv twen ty miles distant. They have now surmounted the principal natural obstacles on ih. road to Budapest, having hewn their! way through the CaYpathians In the teeth oi opposition by practically the! entire military force of the dual mon-riy' mon-riy' Bttened by a formidable array of German corps .!5doi.lb.t Pxi9ts bere that her-self her-self Austria-Hungary can do nothing to recover the ground she Is now to? ing. Only a comprehensive transfer nL Kma,U !r0PS Can av" dam ming back the Russian advance whirl, is moving down tbe souther.. ralleys of the Carpathians with the el'e 1 mental force of glavlers Along tbe center line of advance on Hommona. tbe Russians, bavins r. pulsed an Austro-Qerman attack with ?h?Vi l.SSPS to lattep. reumed SS-MFPSZ? and took by torm the village of VlraTa. four miles south of their previous position Tho enemy, with abundant rein-forcement.v rein-forcement.v made a vigorous attach CD. the road between Sanik ami Horn ! mona, which however, was ropulsSl with heavy losses, including the can-ture can-ture of 1000 prisoners This hat J took place a few miles on Se flSSHj 1.1 . , garian side of the boundary. K Further to the aouth the' RUSijl. aiming from P.ukovetz over less steeps with six feet of b I drifts to smiggle throuqh ?' lor.ght tl.eir way to within three mn' of the upper waters of the TW ' river. |