Show W AGAIN SET HAVE SUCCEEDED IN ALMOST ENTIRELY SURROUND inq PART OF RUSSIAN ARMY la taken by german force and russians must fight their way out eastward or retire in a southeasterly direction the germans have occupied ellna according to advises advices reaching lon don and by a wide sweeping move ment to the north of that city have succeeded eucce eded in almost entirely surround ing a portion ot the russian army which Is fighting in the railway trl angle between vilna llda and at any rate the russian forces in this district either must fight their ay out eastward or retire in a south easterly direction for the only rail way left entirely in their hands la that which runs from ellna to llda end thence to the army of field marshal von aln edenburg which took ellna and hag reached to the east of ellna is working in close operation cooperation co hat of archduke leopold of bavaria in an effort to catch a part of the russian army an operation which bar been so often tried without success bince the austro germans commenced their drive in western galacia in early may the russians express confidence in the outcome of the battle but with their northern armies held closely along the avina and the german flanly well protected by their cavalry which recently occupied across the ellna petrograd Petro grad railway it seems am possible that any aid can come tc them from that direction the situation in the balkans and al the dardanelles Darda nelles has reached a crisis czar ferdinand of bulgaria and th roumania Rou manla are reported to be holding a conference at a place on the danube the location of which as kept secret it is believed that this conference will decide the action ol 01 the balkan powers the chief inter est lies in the fact that the action ol 01 the balkan league will decide the all important dardanelles Darda nelles campaign both the germane and the french claim minor victories on the front but neither there in the ital ian theatre nor in the dardanelles Darda nelles bave any events of great moment beba reported recently |