Show ht s Up By Storms Operations Slowing Down n I II I on oil All Fronts Forestalling Decision Before Spring Vienna Sept 24 The The The unusually earl early B setting In of ot autumn one noI caused a slowIng slowIng slowing slow- slow Ing down own In the operations In Transylvania franc I vania t h where ro the higher points already are covered d with ith four feet teet of or snow I Torrential rains on all fronts where tho Austro s are engaged have hare converted cOI tho the battlefields Into quagmires and anil the Indications are that thata a long lull In offensive movements Is coming comins although the freezing of ot tho the ground would Improve conditions Once more moro Russian onslaughts In I. I and cast east Galicia have ha stopped In Transylvania both sides shIes are handicapped by fino and mud muil In everything Is I knee deep In I mud and mire while the Au Italian Uro front Is la experiencing re regular cloudbursts cloudbursts cloud cloud- I bursts antI and In th the higher altitudes There Thero are persistent rains In I Macedonia and reports reaching hero I Irom from rom th the thi western front tell tho the same a story ston t or Those who had hoped that a decision would come before before- the advent of ot winter r now see that newer and greater offensives often offen sires next spring arc Inevitable Military Mili 1111 tary authorities here hert also believe that thata a a. veritable ble struggle of ot giants giant will come with the new nw spring At all nfl points therefore operations are c being slowed down especially where tho the terrain Is now as In ja where the roads arc are few fow ow and antl far tr between and uniformly bad It Is expected expected ex ex- ex- ex the present situation will prevail prevail pre pro vail for Cot about six weeks Such a n lull military critics hero be behove believe bo- bo hove lieve offers an opportunity for the concentration concentration con con- of or troops of or the central powers pow pow- ers by railroad against Rumania which has vast stores stoics of food tood and petroleum Meanwhile tho the forces orce of or tho central I powers In havo have shortened their front from to kilometers j I which iu Is Iii an advantage antage In the tho prevailing prevail lug ing ata state tc of ot tho the weather rho Tho entente offensive from It Is prophesied will n recede cede as winter Inter I approaches because the Macedonian mountains which have o a bad terrain In summer oven even now arc considered impassable Im- Im pa passable In man mali many places place In the last three throe weeks Vienna Senna has been visited by tho the most torrential rains In recent years Ono One rainstorm lasted sixty hours Many Ian floods have havo been caused and nd a n. dam darn near broke causing tho ho death of or many persons Yesterday Emperor Francis Joseph do donated do- do crowns for relief In that d district I s I ri c t. t |