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Show RUSH OF SONS " IN EASTHALTED - RATTLE WHICH WILL DECIDE FATE OF RUSSIAN LEFT WING SWAYS BACK AND FORTH. Both Sides Lose Heavily in Battle of Dniester, and the Germans are Reported Re-ported as Having Sent More Big Guns From Essen. The battle of the Dniester, which will decide the fate of the left wing of the Russian army in Galioia. sways back ami forth along the banks of the river so far without decisive results. re-sults. The Russians have thrown considerable consid-erable reinforcements into this area, but whether they are planning a serious seri-ous offensive or are merely fighting stubbornly preparatory to another retreat re-treat is uncertain. Both sides have lost heavily, General Gener-al Von Linsingen's right flank and center having been badly cut up when the Russians threw the Austro-Ger-mans back across the river. The Russians have been fortifying their lines from the river to the Russian Rus-sian frontier, and with the Austro-German Austro-German lines ot communication lengthening daily, the task of forcing Ue Russians eastward becomes more and more formidable. Although Berlin Ber-lin claims that the Teutonic allies have been forging ahead between the Dniester and the district which they occupied east of Lemberg, the advance lacks the characteristics of the impetuous im-petuous rush so noticeable in former stages of the Galician campaign. Accounts of German military activity in Russian Poland come at the same time as reports that many big guns from Essen, Germany, are being shipped into that region, possibly in preparation for another drive at Warsaw. War-saw. Pronounced German successes seemingly seem-ingly have occurred not far from the East Prussian border, the Germans claiming the capture by storm of a Russian position north of Przasnysz and the Russians admitting a reverse in that region through Buperior artil-ery artil-ery fire by the Germans. Neither French nor German statements state-ments indicate operations of important import-ant moment in the western arena. The French admit lack of progress due in many places, it Is declared, to storm ravaged ground, while the Germans Ger-mans set forth the repulse of all French attacks and the regaining of , some trenches. The German socialists are again active in the cause of peace, according accord-ing to dispatches from Germany, and the prominent paper Vorwaerts has been suspended indefinitely for publishing pub-lishing their peace appeal. Recruiting in England for the army seems to have been temporarily forgotten for-gotten amid the high tension of the campaign for munition workers. |