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Show RELIABLE NEWS FROM FOLAND IS STILL LACKING LONDON. Dec. 4. 10:30 p. m. There is still larklntr reliable news of the proves of tho battle in Poland, which continues to monopolize Interest. An unofficial dispatch from Petroprad ; pays the buttle of Lodz has ended in j success for tho Russians, hut this state- , merit Is opposed to that of the Berlin of- I fleinl report, which Favs the German offensive of-fensive In Poland is uiklng its normal course. The fact Is that the flghtlnff in this recion hits developed into such a jumble tbt It is almost impossible to follow it. The most Important factor from the nllles' point of view is that the German advance on Warsaw seemingly hus not I succeeded in its ob.iect, nor has it had the ef!et of diverting the Russians from their forward movement thrcniKh the pal Ulan s and on to the plain of Hu;i-fiary, Hu;i-fiary, or against the fortress tit Cracow, around which they are drawing a elisor tins of men and artillery. Takint? into consideration the case cf Pizemysl. which has held out so long atcainsi the Russian attacks, military , men do not look for the early fall of Cracow and are rather inclined to believe be-lieve that i he armies of Emperor Nicholas Nich-olas will endeavor to keep the la rire Austrian Aus-trian force inside the fortress and enter Silesia from the southeast. Much depends, however, on the battle which is being fought with such intensity in-tensity further north between the rivers Vistula and Warm, and in which all aree tho losses on both sides have been ery heavy. There is an Inclination t believe that had there been any prolahility of an ea rly success for the Germans in this field" Emperor William, who las returned to Berlin, would have remained to witness wit-ness the victory of his troops. |