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Show RRMpARn UumunllU Concentrate 400 Guns on the Austrian Positions Posi-tions at Czernowitz as a Preparation for a Determined De-termined Attack by Strong Infantry Force. TEUTONS ADMIT t FEAR OF DEFEAT Reports From Both Pet-rograd Pet-rograd and Vienna In-dicate In-dicate Fighting of the Most Bitter Character, Few Prisoners Being Taken. '4 T.OXDON, Jan. 7, 9:45 p. m. Some idea of the determined nature of the -Russian blow on the Bessarabian front N; is conveyed by Petrograd dispatches to day, which state that the Russians for fifty hours concentrated 400 guns on the Austrians' positions at Czernowitz, v as a preparation for infantry attack. The Russian communications do not yet claim that Czernowitz has fallen, but dispatches from German sources admit the Teutonic position there is critical. It is not yet clear whether the Russian Rus-sian operations in this theater herald a hig general offensive movement of all the Russian armies from the Baltic to the Rumanian border or merely indicate a diversion of unparalleled magnitude and fierceness designed to weaken the pressure of the central powers in the Balkans and incidentally on the Italian front. Terrific Fighting. The fighting has been of the most hitter character, according to both the Austrian and Russian reports. Few f prisoners are being taken and the infantry in-fantry engagements are largely in the nature of hand-to-hand encounters. All of the Russian operations thus far revealed are being pressed along the railway lines, which simplify the prob-leriis prob-leriis of the winter supply of food, ammunition am-munition and fuel. The situation along other fronts Is comparatively com-paratively quiet. Loss of Submarine. The loss of a British submarine by a mlsrhanr of nnvipatlon off the Dutch co-i?t makes a total of eleven British submarines lost since the beginning of the war. .A majority of those, howover, have been f the smaller types. An echo of General Sir Ian Hamilton's review of the Dardanelles operations Is found in a report published today that Genera! Sir Frederick Ptopford, who was recalled on account of his conduct In the .anvU Hay operations, lias demanded an iricjulry by the war office Into the whole circumstances of the landing of troops In the Dardanelles. Tn connection with the submarine activity activ-ity In the Mediterranean sea, an Athens dispatch notes that alarm Is felt there owing to the fact that none of the nine ships laden with grain purcliased in America Amer-ica either has arrived or been signalled. - RUSSIANS REPORT SUCCESS AGAINST TEUTONIC ALLIES r r'KTROfiRAP, via London, Jan. 7. 10 p. ni. The following official communication was Issued today: In the Riga region near Oil and Zaall the Germans discharged gas against our entrenchments. Xear Duckern, in the region of Jacohsiadt, thirty Russian scouts engaged In a hand-to-hand fight some German scouts who had lust their way, bayonetting a large r number and capturing thirty-six, iii-' iii-' eluding one officer. Our detachments captured the town of Czartorysk and the height, two versls (one and a half miles) west. W e captured three officers, seventv-six seventv-six soldiers and a quantity of barbed wire. Hostile counter-attacks with the object of dislodging us from Czartorysk. Czar-torysk. failed. Northeast of Czarnn-wltz Czarnn-wltz the Austrians, after cmploving asphyxiating gases, tried a counter- (Contiuued. on Page Two.) 13313 BOMBARD DM FDR 50 HS (Continued from P?.qe One.) fttia- k, hot wfre drlvrn ak to their tr-if h - 1 ur Firr-. 1 u as.i !i n'inr. m T:;esiay fvr-n-iii? Tu:-k. taking u-i a ntaue "i tile iom. ;i.-rtijn,e'l ti.e ot'tViiKive near V.if- vtl'a'.:-s oi' Akla and tiiliiasso, sou; l,.-,,; of Lake Torhlm. Trie of-tiir-ive l.roke flown ,.np our tire, io' h ope: 'tO when t'nt.- enemy reached SiFhif- of u';r ft rti 1 i c i H 1 dinst-". The T;nk returned to their uomiies, hut with Ip-Hvy l.-s.ses. In I'ei-ia suiue hundreds of enemy tnfanlryaien tind cav.iiry tried to take ti.o ( frVnsive from th.? town of I.'ow-1 I.'ow-1 eta bad. so-ithfast of Hamiidan, but were driven hack beyond the Ken-deliam Ken-deliam pasy. |