The New York Times/1916/11/22/Fights on Russian Front
FIGHTS ON RUSSIAN FRONT.
Attacks and Counterattacks In Wooded Carpathians Reported.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 21.—The repulse of an Austro-German attack on the Russian line in the wooded Carpathians is announced in today’s War Office statement on operations along the Western Russian front. The statement reads:
There has been rifle and artillery firing. On the River Stokhod the fire was above the average in intensity. In the region of Maltolsk the enemy’s heavy and light artillery bombarded the district of Garbuzev-Gukalov, which is west of Nove Oleksenetz.
In the wooded Carpathian region, five versts north of Gifpnev, the enemy attacked but was repulsed.
BERLIN, Nov. 21, (by Wireless to Sayville.)—The repulse of a Russian attack in the wooded Carpathian region is reported in today’s Army Headquarters statement on operations along the Russian front, as follows:
Front of Prince Leopold—Nothing of importance occurred.
Front of Archduke Charles Francis—In the Ludova sector of the wooded Carpathians a patrol enterprise was carried out, according to plan, by German riflemen and forty prisoners were brought in. A Russian advance in a neighboring sector, carried out in an effort to relieve another portion of the front, failed in sanguinary fashion.