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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Under date of May 4 a Vienna dispatch says Thirty thousand Russian soldiers twentytwo can ¬ non and sixtyfour machine guns were captured in the battle of West Galicia according to an official statement given out in Vienna this after noon In a continuous attack thu allied troops under the eyes of CommandcrinChief Archduke Frederick gained new successes yesterday and ad ¬ vancing irresistibly in an easterly direction forced the Russians to make a hasty rettear The impor ¬ tance of the total success can not yet be approxi ¬ mately estimated German and Aust reHungarian troops in true comradeship of arms gained a new victory During the retreat of the Russians after our victorious battle at Limanov Western Galicia we captured the strongly fortified front of the enemy between the Vistula and the main ridge of the Carpathians1 Carpathians1In In regard to operations In Flanders the Berlin statement of yesterday says In Flanders yes ¬ terday we jjiursued our attacks from the northeast with great success This morning we captured Kevecote JCoiinebcke Westhok the forjst of Poly gonous and Nonnebosscbcn These positions have been hotly contested for many months The re ¬ treating enemy was under the Hank of the fire of our batteries to the northeast of Yprcs On the other hand a report rom Paris says Des ¬ perate efforts by the Germans to advance north of Ypres have failed The British forces repulsed a iiight attack on May inflicting heavy losses It Is apparent the attack started on Sunday is to be continued by the Germans despite their repeated repulse and the frightful losses they are sustaining sustainingABerlin ABerlin message of May 4 says concerning the reported defeat of the Russians in western Galicia Our victory in western Galicia is more Important tbiin that of the Mazuriau lakes telegraphs a German correspondent now at Austrian headquar ¬ ters On the Dunajec front the Russians are re ¬ treating in disorder with Austrian and German troops pursuing anil breaking up every attempt to rally Entire Russian divisions have been complete ¬ ly destroyed The number of prisoners taken may Exceed those captured by Field Marshal von Hln denburg In East Prussia Tho Austrians have avenged Przemysl PrzemyslA A dispatch from Athens to the London Daily News fiOOO wounded Turks have been sent from Gallipoli to Constantinople while four largo transports loaded with Gorman reenforcements have been sent to the Dardanelles A Tenedos dispatch to the Dally News says Fierce fighting continues day and night in the Dardanelles The ships of the Heist are working in shifts and the bombardment is in ¬ cessant In spite of the desperate resistance we have made steady progress both on land and sea The inost vital points of the enemys defenses now sire strongly invested investedThe The Berlin Lokal Anzeigers correspondent de ¬ scribing the German operations toward Milan Rus ¬ sian Courland says the German advance completely surprised the Russians who retired so hastily that the Germans were a hundred kilometers sixtytwo miles east of the German border on the second day The German infantry covered fifty miles in thirty fcix hours entered battle immediately and fought eight hours before resting The Germans cut the railway from Lilian to Vilna The correspondent says the general advance of the Germans in this district continues continuesJan Jan J Slomski owner of a private bank and steamship agency at 2109 West Eighteenth street was shot and fatally wounded today by one of the live automobile bandits who made a daring day ¬ light raid on the bank and escaped He died at St Anthonys hospital Chief of Police Healcy was in ¬ formed of the crime immediately On his order First Deputy Superintendent Schuettler assigned four squads of detectives armed with rilles to scour the district in automobiles automobilesTho Tho olllcial statement issued by the German ad ¬ miralty in reference to Saturdays action in the North Sea coincides with the British version out describes the lost German ships as onti ost boats which first engaged armed English trawlers one of which was destroyed A division of English tqrpedrf boat destroyers joined In the battle re ¬ sulting in the loss of our outpost boats boatsA A Petrograd dispatch of May 4 says The Rus ¬ sian Black Sea fleet has again bombarded the Bos ¬ porus forts doing considerable damage according to dispatches received here today Near one of the forts two shells hurst Immediately afterward there was a tremendous explosion and flames were men bursting from the fortilications Two Turkish ships were sunk sunkA A powerful dynamite bomb exploded in the Bronx Borough Hall monday night badly damaging that building only a short time before a meeting of tax ¬ payers was to have been held there Only five persons were in the building at the time Although two of them were thrown twenty feet by the force of the explosion no one was Injured InjuredA A private dispatch received at San Antonio Tex ¬ as dated May 1 relates that an attempt on the life of General Villa was made by Colonel Olivas a member of his staff at Chihuahua It was said three shots were fired at Villa and that he was wounded twice though not seriously Olivas the dispatch paid was killed by fellow officers officersCopenhagen Copenhagen reports that a Gorman warship has shelled and sot on fire the Iagskeer lighthouse on one of the Aland Islands at the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia according to a dispatch received from Stockholm A general German attack is ex ¬ pected on the coast of Finland In the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia BothniaThe The Berlin Tages Zcilung says it learns that the new Austrian army which is to act against Serbia is now ready for flic field The weather along the border according to the newspaper is improving rapidly and u advance by the army Is expected shortly shortlyAn An Austrian correspondent of the Idea Nazionale of Rome says Germany lias sent two Zeppelins to Pola the Austrian arsenal on the Adriatic AdriaticA A 1etrog ad dispatch to the London Times says another Internal loan of 00000000 will be issued within a fortnight Its success is assured
