Show TRAP mi AGIN SET ta ET ku 19 U GERMANS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN ALMOST ENTIRELY SURROUND ING PART OF RUSSIA 4 ARMY vilna in 1 taken by german forces and russians must fight their way out eastward or retire in a southeasterly direction the germans have occa occupied pled vilna according to advices reaching real ailing lon don and by a wide sweeping move rient to the north of that city have in almost entirely surrounding a portion of the russian arm atch Is fight ilig in tile railway tr tri angle anglo between vilna lida and Vil vilella elka at any rate the us forces in uila this district cither either must fight their way out east eastward Aard or retire in a southeasterly direction for the only rail rall vay T ay left entirely in their hands la Is that which runs from vilna to lida and thence to the army of held iteld Al marshal arshal von hin denburg which took vilna and liaa lias reached viletha ia to the east of vilna Is to working in close cooperation with that of archduke leopold of bavaria in an effort to catch a part ot of the russian army an operation which ha been so often tried without will ioUi success since the the austro commenced their drive in western esie rii callah in early may the russians express confidence in ill the outcome outcome of the battle but with their northern armies held closely along the avina and the tile german nerman flank well ell protected by their cavalry which recently occupied aids across the tile vilna petrograd rail railway was it seems im 1 possible that any aid can come to them from that direction the situation in tile Ball cans and at the dardanelles Darda nelles has reached a crisis czar Per Ferdl dinan nani I 1 of Bul garli and the tile king of roumania Rou Ilou manta manla are reported to be holding a conference at a place on the danube the location of which Is kept secret it la is believed that this conference will decide the action of the balkan powers the chief inter est eat lies in the fact that the action of the balkan league will decide the all important dardanelles Darda nelles campaign both the germans and the french claim minor victories on oil the front but neither there in the italian theatre nor in the dardanelles Darda nelles have any events of great moment been reported recently |