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Exeter Advocate, 1915-5-13, Page 7sl Fastest 'Ocean ,.liner in the World Sent to Bottom by German Pirates More than thirteen hundred lives were lost when the Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed without warning off Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, by a German submarine Friday afternoon, sink- ing within thirty-five minutes. Out of a total number of 2,104 persons aboard, passengers and crew, with over 200 Canadians and 189 United State# citizens, between 800 and 900 are reported ashore at Queenstown, Kinsale, Galley Head and Clonakilty, bit a late bulletin received by the Cunard Company in New York from a chief steward expressed his belief that no more than 500 or 600 were saved. Among the survivors., it is reported, are many wounded, who have been taken to the naval hospital at Queenstown, thus estab- lishing that the explosion must have been terrific, or there was a second interior explosion. Loss of Life Enormous. The very latest bulletins received enumerate so few survivors that it is feared that more than 1,300 Have per i4.lied. Out of the 2,104 passengers and crew aboard the ship, 1,254 passen- gers and 850 crew, there is definite information concerning less than 700,of them, and even the uncon- firmed reports of rescues at vari- ous ports add very few mare to the list. The latest bulletin comes from Queenstown by way of Liverpool through the Cunard Company. It reads: "Queenstown wires that the Stormcock is landing about 160 passengers and crew; It is re- ported by the Admiralty that the trawlers Doek and Indian Empire have about 200; the tug Flying Fish 100; three torpedo boats have 45 living and four dead. "We are putting these up at the different Hotels and boarding houses," London, May 7, 5 p.m. -The Lusitania was sunk at 2.33 this afternoon off 01d Head Kinsale by a torpedo. Assistance has been sent to her. Queenstown, May 7. -The Cu- nard Line steamer has been tor- pedoed and sunk. The Lusitania sailed last Satur- . day from New Fork. Cunard (lues Text of Telegram. New York, May 7. -The Cunard Line gve out the following cable- gram received from Liverpool: `'Lands End wireless reported distress calls made by Lusitania, as follows: `Come at once; big .list, posi- tion ten miles south Kinsale.' Sub- sequently received telegram from Queenstown that all small craft in harbor dispatched to assistance." The second message read: "Queenstown. ---Old Head Kinsale wire begins, "About 20 boats of all sorts belonging to Lusitania are in vicinity where .sunk." Before the Lusitania sailed some nervousness was caused because of the publication in the papers of an advertisement warning intending travellers that a, state of war exist- . ed between Germany and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that in accordance with notice 'given by the German Government vessels flying the flag of Great Britain are liable to destruction in those wa- ters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of 'Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk. This advertisement was signed, "Imperial German Lm r b.assy." This warning apparently did not cause many oaneellationa, for the ship sailed with a very full passen- ger list. - Charles P. Sumner, general agent of the Cunard Lino, was ab the pier, and in a statement made then, said that the voya.ge of, the Lusitania would not be attended by any risk whatever, as the liner had a :speed .of twenty-five and a, half knots'; and was provided with unusual watertight ballthe.ads.. In commenting op the report of the torpedoing of the Lusitaania, marine men pointed out that in their opinion the' Lusitania,' could not be -sunk by e dingle torpedo. The Lusitania carried Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Elbert Hub- bard, Charles Frohran, .and, other well-known people.' Just before the steamer .sailed away many of the passengers received telegrams from a mysterious source weaning. them not to make the voyage as .-,,something was .going to happen to the big liner. The was Lusitani°coma anded a>I by Captain .W. T. Turner, Royal Na val Reserve, and Staff Captain J. C. Anderson is his assistant. On board were a nunn•ber of British re- servists going back to join the colors an represelitatives of many American and Canadian firms who deal in war materials. The Lusitania; carried a erew of about 700 and 1,300 passengers, This ineluded 200 passengers who were taken aboard from an Anchor Line steamer which was com- mandeered by the British Admir- alty. ;flit Without Warning. There is no doubt that she was hit without warming. Liverpool shipping men have announced that Captain Turner would not think of stopping for .any German submar- ine, but would rely on his speed the moment he saw a periscope in sight. It would only be by chance that a torpe4o- would strike home unless there were a number of the undersea, boats in line, each of whirl: would discharge a torpedo in her path. None could stop her, none could keep up with her. Therefore, it is believed to -night that there was a great loss of life. A message received from Queens- town by the Cunard Company says: "Chief Steward Jones thinks about 500 to 600 saved. This in- cludes passengers and crew. In', the meantime the injured and the dead are taking up all our atten- tion!) Sent Only One Wireless. After the early afternoon report of the Lusitania nothing was heard officially at any of the wireless sta- tions until shortly after 2 o'eloek, when the wireless operator at Land's End, Ireland, caught this hurriedly : "Colne at once. Big list; position ten miles south of Kinsale." That was all that ever came out of the ship so far as can be learned.. It would not have been sufficient to have blown up the boilers to step the wireless, for the emer- gency batteries were there to work with. Something snapped the whole thing out. The word from Land's End was out to the world in an- other two minutes. Every port of the Irish coast was notified and passed the word. along. Men on the jump from Waterford clear down to Cape Clear rushed into small boats and large boats and dashed out to sea,. Old Head of Kin. ale was the next sendlittle to a. word.A .marine. observer there with powerful glass- es made out the big ship ten miles out, listed to one side almost on the point of turning over. There was only a brief flash of this, and then came the word, "She has gone." As a niatte:r of fact, it is estimated the Lusitania was hit around 2,15 o'clock and was under water by 2.45. Lloyds officially places the time as that. Then the observer made out the small boats on the spot left when the big ship vanished. Says 200• Americans Deati. New York, Saturday, May 8.- More than 200 Americans are among the dead in the Lusitania ,disestez, according to a London cable to the Tribune, whose cor- respondent plaices. the total loss of life at from 900 to 1,400, the latter estimate by First Officer Jones. It is sitpjiosed-there were 400 Ameri- cans on board. The Daily Mail in an editorial says of the sinking of the Lusitania and the loss of life "It was not an .act of war i it was a. case of stheer• cowardly murder. To the American- people who suf- fered this felons' blow equally with ourselves we address no words of impertinent counsel, but we do venture to offer bo ,them from the bottomof our hearts a. message of pro,fouudest sympathy. 7,t is at such' time as theseessential by the kinship of the English•,speaking ]OTITIKEEi.S 01‘i ADYAXGL\TG A despatch f roni Cape Towrirsa,ys "Gen. Botha hasable - o�acanaed dli lin portant railway junotion of,Karibib and other stations (Gersno•n South= west A.feica).- H13 expects to occupy Windhuk iverysoon. Large quanti. - ties of rolling eto.ek, including se- ven locomotives, were taken - at Karibib. "The 'town was occupied atfte .e foreed march of .35 smiles over l a waterless waste, under .condi'tiens of heat; thirst and hunger wlbsoh failed for tbereate�stt: resolution and ,grit." g The Cunard Liner Lusitania, Sunk by the Germans. peoples that we make unmistakably manifest that we share their indig= nation, loathing and contempt for the assassins who sneak under the water to wage a campaign of mur- der against unarmed defenceless passenger ships, merchant vessels and fishing trawlers, and we pro- mise them that, so far as"in us lies, the deaths of these American citi- zens shall he avenged." SURVIVORS TELL OF•THEIR ESCAPE Talks With Toronto _and Ontario People Salved From the Lusitania. A despatch from London says,: Stories of Canadian survivors are reaching London. Frank Hook, an 11 -year-old boy passenger on the Lusitania, was re- turning to England from Toronto with his father and sister. He was pitched overboard as the boat went.. down and suffered a broken le} by striking a piece cif wreckage. The! boy isank, but Cane up again and clutched an upturned boat. He beei came separated from his father, who did 'not know the boy was alive until lie found him in a huspital.in Queenstown. Mrs. Lotttlen's l:xperfenee. Airs. Rose Lohden and her alasigh- tera of Toronto, servitors: of the Lnsitania disaster, tell a pathetic story concerning two English wo- men who were r€seued by the boat in which the Lnadens left the steamer. One. woman had buried her baby at sea. The other, with an infant held tightly to her breasit, on being taken front the sea into the boat, looked fur a nnrsment at the ehild's face, and then saki; ''Let me bury my baby," at the same time plac- ing the body in the water. Vineente Egana, a young Speen mad, saved innumerable women, Mrs. Lohden says, before the ship went down. He carried them to boats and, etanding beside Cap- tain Turner, went down with the steamer, being later picked up in the water; Mrs. Lohden says she saw a peris- eope between 200 and 'a00 yards dis- tant from the Lusitania. She had no idea, what it was, and asked a steward. The latter replied: "My God, a submarine." Almost im- iuediately the explosion lifted the ship. • Parents Lost, Sons Saved. Eric and William Gardner, aged 16 and 11 respectively, of Toronto, passengers on the Lusiitania, were saved, but their parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner, were lost,, according to news received . by the Cunard Line here. The family was on its way to New Zealand. The Cunard .officials said they were anx- ious to hear from relatives of tho boys, to whom they would be sent. Mrs. Gardner fainted when the tor- pedo struck, and went down with the ship. The elder son, who stood by his mother, went down with the ship, but came to the,surface, where he was hauled into a boat in which his father was lying uncon- scious fromshock and chill. The lather died soon afterwards, and the boy, 'believing himself alone in the world, was taken to Queens- town, where he found his younger. brother alive. They axe at :a hotel near. Eustotn Station, the younger sttffering • from exhaustion. It is thought they wall return to Can- ada, where they have relatives. Lost Mother and Babe. Thirty survivors of the Lusitania arrived at Easton Station, London, Sunday ,evening, Among them was Mrs. T. C. Stevens, of Montreal, Wife of a wounded army ,of}toer juat over from Plandenst. She could not believe that those she 'looked for were.nnot among the 30 until she had spoken wi;tth, every once of them. She waits: word of he mother and her 18 -months -.old baby iMac mother wasbringing to' London. Prominent Dead. • • Thte body of C'ha,rie•s. Frohmara, ihceN�e w York �rktthe atrica"1 producer, hays been adentifiead; in the tearrlpor- ary morgue at the' Queenstown Town Hall, end it is ; practically certain tlhiat, among the ,other well- known ere ns` o riI i 1� o t p c soh were Al- fred Gwynne Vancaerbilt•, Charles Klein, the playwright; 'Dr. F. S. 'Peiar:soni, Justus Miles Forim:n, author and playwright, and Mr., and Mrs.. Elbert Hubbard,. Ib has been imp.oissib'.te to find these, bodies. among the 200 in Quesensbown but, word from every point of the Irish ecast fails to bring any reassuribg tidings. It is now definitely establisher) bltat there were 1,917 persons aboard the ship when the German submarine smashed two torpedoes into her starboard side, literally tearing two great .sections of her hull in pieces. There were 290 fnrst- cabin passengers. Only 79 of these have been reported alive. Thera wero 599 in the second cabin, and the survivors' list so far reaches only 100. There were 361 p reurie in the third elites, and there were 067 in the crew. SMYRNA CUT OFF FROI1 STRAITS British Aviator Drops Bombs on Panderna Bridge, Destroy- ing It. A despatch from London says: Desperate fighting is in progress on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Turks have been reinforced by a division, and the allies are now endeavoring to prevent this force from joining the other bodies of Turkish troops. The losses on both sides are heavy. The allies at other points on the Peninsula are strongly es- tablished, and are advancing slow- ly but steadily, overcoming the Turkish reeistanee everywhere. A despatch to the Exchange Tele- graph from Athens says that as a result of the destruction of the Pander= bridge by a British avia- tor communication between Smyr- na and the Dardanelles is inter- rupted, and that both the move- ment of Turkish troops and the transport of supjilie:s from the in- terior of Asia Minor have been ren- dered difficult. The Turks, considerably rein- forced, attacked the allies' camp at Krithia, but were repulsed, leaving 1,501) dead, aeeording to advices from Mitylene. Krithia is about three miles up the Gallipoli Peninsula from Seda-el-Bahr at the Tip, and is an interior point. The .allies have advanced into the interior, the despatch says, and now occupy positions of great stra- tegic importance. A report from Tenedos says that British warships continued their bombardment of Turkish positions . in the Dardanelles, and also of Smyrna. d' SHIP EB � S P SUNK BY PIRATES Danish Steamer Was On Her Way From Copenhagen for. China. A despatch from London says: The Danish steamer Cathay, 2,600 net tone, from Copennhagen for Chinese ports, was either mined or torpedoed late last night in the North Sea. She went down in 20 minutes. Her passengers and the members of her crew, totalling 43 persons, took to the small boats and all were landed safely at Rams- gate. The trawlea• Stratton, of Grims- by, was :sunk in the North Sea by the gunfire of a German submarine. The crew was taken on board the submarine, and later landed at Hartlepool in,•a small boat: The schooner Earl of Latham was. sunk .by a German submarine off Kinsale, on. the Irish coast. The crew was permitted to take to the small boats, and was rescued by .a trawler. The ,submarine fired pine shells at the sclhooner before she sank. . The British steamship Harpalyce, under charter, to the American. Bel- gian Relief Comrmitte,e, whioh was sunk by.a German submarine in the North Sea the can .y part sof April, was torpedoed within 23 miles of the Dutch coast, according to a re- port made to the British Admiralty after an investigation which was confined chiefly to an examination of the members of the crew of the .steamer, for the reason that ro part of tthe ship remained afloat:' The report asserts that the Har palyce, .at the time she 'was;attack- ed, flew tine fiag of the Relief Cora - mission and that she had also large sheets bearing the nasus .of the coni mission ,stretcihed along her sides: The report points out particularly that it has .been proved that the Harpalyce was not within the war zone when she was 'sent to the bot- tom. KE IMPORTANT ADVANCES Joffre's Forces Report • Gains --Sir John i~rench. Chronicles Attacks by His First Army 116. A despatch from Paris :says: Im- portant Freneh'salvanees in Aimee were recorded by the War Office in Saturday's official communique. The forces which for some time have been gradually working their way toward Metzera•1, en important ten- tre,° some ten miles east of the lflune•, pushed forward fur a dis- tance ff one kilometre over a frunt 1,500 kilometres in length. The progress made was along the banks of the River 1''eeht. French troupe have mad' irnp ir- tent gains Wouth of Careney. Two and in .some cases three once of German trench s were taken over a, front of four and a half mile; The German fortifteatie,ns at these piaees were very heavy. and the re- sistanee, while futile, was very bit- ter. British foreas recovered on Sat- urday the line of trenc}lee lost on Friday to the Germans on Hill 60, awarding to s report from Field. Marshal Sir John French. Field Marshal French sent the following report of the operations on the western line "The enemy continuedhis at- tacks east of Ypres, and made fur- ther .attacks, which have all been repulsed with heavy losses. Our !line there is firmly established. Our first army atte eked the enemy's line between Boss Grenier and Fes- tubert, and gained gremnd south and east toward Frarnelles. The fighsi.eg in tat c. area continues. "Oitr airmen made successful at tacks on the St. Andre railway junetivn north {;f Lille and on the canal brick: at IDuh. Fufhe:5, Her - lies, I.}sere, Marquelles and La I3ttC'` 'e were 1.ir,•inbed•" MARKETS OF Titi WHO REPORTS FROM THE tEADINC TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. Breadstuffs, Toronto, May 10. -Flour -Manitoba first Patents quoted at 88.10, in jute bags; sec and patents, 57.60; strong bakers', 87.40. Ontario wheat flour. 90 per cent. patents, quoted at 86.40 to 86.45, seaboard, and at 86,40 to 86.60, Toronto freight. Wheat 3lanitoba No. 1 Northern quot- ed at 81.701--2; No. 2 at $1.69, and No. 3 at 81.66. Ontario wheat is nominal at 81.50 for No. 2 at outside points. Oats -Ontario quoted at 69e. outeside and at bac. Toronto. western Canada No. 2 ducted at 67 1.2c. and No. 3 at 05e, Bay parts. Barley The market is nominal. Good malting grades, 73 to 75e. outside. Rye -The market is dull at SI to 51.05. outside. Peas -The market is quiet. with No 1 quoted at 81.55 to 51.65. outside. Corn -No. 2 new American quoted at 822, c.i.f.. Bay ports. and No. 3 at 31 1.2t Bay ports;. Buckwheat Nu. 2 quoted at 83 to 52c outside llrar and shorte-1lr.tn as quoted at 527 a ton, shorts at 529 to 839. Ralled oats -Car lots, per beg, of 90 lbs.. 83.40. 6ountry Produce. Butter Choice dairy, 24 to We inferior. 21 to Me- creamery' prints, 32 to 34c; de, Hoods. 29 to 20e. Eggs -The market is steady, with sales at 224. per dozen, in ease lots. Beans 'The market ;s quiet at 85.15 for prince, and 83.20 to 83.25 for hand•piekeil. Poultry - Chickens, drowsed. 18 to 20e; duck', da r i-sel, 15 to 17c; fowl, 13 to 15c; turkeys, drecr:ed, 20 to 21e. Cheese -The market is quiet, with new quoted as 17 1.2e far large, and at 17 ki for twine. Old quoted at 19 to 191.4e. Potatoes -Ontario, 60 to 15c• per bag, out of store, and 50c in car lots. New Bruns• wicks, var lots, 60e per bag. Provisions. - Bacon- Is •ig deur, 13 3.4 to Ile per lb. in case lots. Hants 'Medium, 17 to 1712e; do., heavy, 141.2 to 150; rolls, 14 to 1412c; breakfast bacon, 18 to 20e; backs, 21 to 22c; bonele ,.i hacks. Lard --The market hl quiet. with prices steady; pure lard, tubs, 113.4 to 12c; do, Pails, 12 to 12 12c. Compound, tubs, 9 3.4 to 10e; do., pails, 10 to 101.4e. Baled Hay and Straw. Straw is quoted at $7.50 to 88 a ton In car lot deliveries on track here. iiay---No. 1 hay is quoted at 817 to $17.50; No. 2 at 814.50 to 815.50, and No. 3 at 812 to 813. Business in Montreal. Montreal, May 10. -Corn, Amer:ran No. 2 yellow, 83 to 84e. Oats, Canadian west- ern, No. 3, 67 1.2c extra No. 1 feed, 66 1-2e; NO. 2 local white, 67e; No. 3 do., 66c; No. 4 do., 65c. Barley, malting, 88 to 90e. Flour -Man. Spring wheat potents, firs ts , W8.20•seconds, 87.70; strong bakers,. 87.50; Winter patents_choice 87.90; straight rollers. $7.40 to $7.50; do., hags, $3.50 to $3.60. B,o:lel oats, barrels, 37 to $7.15; do bags, 50 lbs., 83.40 to $3.50. Bran, 826 Shorts, $28. Middlings, 833 to $34. Illouillie, $35 to 438. Ray, No. 2, per ton, car lots, 818 to $19.50. Cheese, finest westerns, 171-4 to 17 1-2c; do., eastern`;, 16 3-4 to 17c. Butte:, choicest creamery, 30 to 30 1-2c; seconds, 29 1-2 to 29 3.4c Eggs, fresh. 22 to 23e; selected, 24 to 25e; No. 2 stock, 21e. Potatoes. per bag, car lots, 45e. Dressed toga, abattoir killed. 13 to 131-2c. Pork, heavy Canada short mess; bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, 828; short eut back, bble., 45 to, 55 piiettc. $^"r 20. Lard, ;fit: ipound, tierces. 75 lbs. 4 12e; asuod pai,a. 20 lbs. net. ltk pure, t:ere,s, 375 lbs., 11 inc. pure, word palls, 21' lbs. net. ISe. United States Markets. ` Minneapolis, May 10.• -wheat --No. 1 hard. 81.64 1-4; No. 1 Northern, 81.59 34 to 81,63 3.4; No 2 'Northern, 81.55 34 to 81.60 3.4; July, $1.53 bid.Corn -No. 3 yet• low. 72 3.4 to 73 1.4e. Oats -No. 3 white, 55 to 53 1.2e. Fleur. and bran unchanged. , Duluth. May.. 10 -Wheat- No. 1 bard, 51.64 5.0; No.. Northern 81.63 5-8; No, 2 Northern. 81.56 5.8 to 81.59 5.8; Jul". ; $1.58 3.8. Linseed. 81.99 1.4; July, $2.01 3.4. New York, May 10. --Fleur steady. Rye floor steady. Tray strong; No. 1. 81.22 1.2; No. 2, 53.17 1-2 to 51.20; No. 3, 51.03 to 81.10; shipping 90c to 51.• Bops quiet, Bides dull. I. ather firm. - • Live Stock Markets♦ Torotttr,, May 13. ' Ila closes' cattle, choice. $7.65 to 5.0,35; do g:*xl, 87.11 to 87.40; do. tined um 5335 to is do., cam anon. 86.10 to -r5 9 butcher, ,lulls, choice, 86.25 to 87.25; do., a,ud bnl.s, 85.40 to 86; do., rougtoh85; boltdo . s, $65 rnon to :5.54.6971; anuchct>55;3' row., choice, 56.15 to r7,. do,. medium. 55.25 feeders. good, 86.40 to 87.2o; do., trough bulls. 85 to 8, 50: stockers. 90 to 1.00f lbs.. 85 to 87.25: conner: and cutters 53.75 141 85; milkers, r I o;ce. each. $60 to 890; do.. common and mental; each. $55 to 845 sprIngc res 530 to $75; light ewes. -87 to MN; dor heavy. 85 to 86.30: do., bucks. $2.5p to $4 0 y, tot in lambs, 86 to 810 spring t to lsi, 5i t4 811.59. :Montreal. May 10 Tints were no choice. Steers on the market. but sales of good steers were tirade at 87.75 to 53. fair, at $7 to 87.50. and the lower grades at 86 to 86.75. While butchers' cows brought fr.:tn at to 17, and 1,ut.!,. from $4 to 87.50 per cwt. A feature of the small neat trade was the weaker feeling an the mar. lcet for calves, owing to the iii,eral sup. plies seining forward, and prices dtriia. ed, but at .1a:' redni t un the tle;r.ard was good, and an active trade war; :done at from 81.50 to s9 each, as to sirs and qual- ity. The demand forS.r1n^ lami,s was fair at 54 to 88 c. telt, a:td old sheep Bold at 56.25 to 85.50 per cwt. Tlae lone of the market Fur has was Erin, with a steady demand and n ices of c ,•.eat, d lots weirt, , made at $9.25 to 89.50, and he avy we:gnt :at 89 per cwt., weighs) off caro. Plenty of India Wheat To. Supply: Britain A despatch from Landon sans: The British Cxoverntlnent hoped, said the Marquis of Crewe in the House of Lords, that the exporta- ble margin of wheat from India would be sufficient to prevent any- thing like a panic car a rise in the price of wheat for the current yeai in this country. Government interference with the export of wheat from India, the speaker said, was due to the belief that unless some strong action were to be taken a serious position would be created in India owing tc the high prices to which the wheat was advancing. The Government was prepared, the Marquis concluded, • to take as much wheat from India as it could • get in view of what the price of wheat was likely to be in this coun- try. NOT OF 11011 IIVJPOBTilOE Terntiorary Success Can Do No More Than D lay the Russian Advance into Hungary t1 despatch from London says: The battle now progressing between the Vistula and the Carpathians is thus described by the corre,spon- d•ent of the Daily Mail at Petro- grad: "For the moment niasse,s of Ger- man and Austrian troops who for some weeks past have been ooncen- trating .at Cracow have, by mere weight and superiority of numbers, forced the Russians along elle Din- ajec to draw back. The operations in this region began a week ago when an Austrian force approached the Biala River south of Tarnow. At first they were held in check, ;but ,soon Germain reinforcements. arrived, including many first line troops s u t before in0 1 acedthe p Car- pathians. At the same time at Krasnow, on the, upper Vistula, a very _viggorotjs •offensive began. Six times the Russian po,sibions were attacked ,and each time the enemy wee driven off. Fin•ally, the enemy being greatly weakened, a battalion of Russians was, ordered to charge, and did so' frith. complete •success, a whole regiment of Landwohr troops being put out of action and 400 survivors being invade:prisoners. "Then came the movement of the enemy for which then .attaelts had been preparatory. A very large force of Get -Maris .crossed the Duna jec and under cover. of a heavy and concerted artillery fire made an ad- vance. No.sooner had they gained the right bank, however, .than t=hey were stopped by, the fire of the Rus-' sign gunners. Orders were then sent to the Russians to retire on their strong second line defenee,s, and this was done after a, fierce en- gagement in which the enemy's losses were vetfy heavy. "In connecition with this move- m,ent other attacks were nlade. by Gerif.;;an and Austrian forms on the Nida, south of Lohudnno, and in the Go•rlice district. The first vent" ture .faile,d. all attempts to cross the Nide being ne ls ed and the enemy being driven back on the left bank, which he bad occaPiedfor some time: At Gorliee tis ,advance was more Beni ns. The obje.et of, the Getanans hese is to compel the Russian ,armies in lee Carpathians to retreat by threatening .their line of communications. "No anxiety regarding the result •: is feltt h�e�re,. and it i•s )lost bc11cv end that the new Austro -German offen- sive can do more than , delay the Russian advance into Hungary."