Show GEMS MM MAY THY S ARMY UNDER hindenberg HAS COVERED THE DISTANCE TO POLISH CAPITAL leaders of russian and austro ger man forces are confining themselves to briefest statements concerning hostilities london the battle which la Is being faught in the region between the vistula and rivers in poland appears to have turned in favor ot of the russians in fact a special from petrograd Petro grad to parts paris says saya that the russian army already has won a decisive victory while this may be an exaggeration both the russian and the german official reports suggest that thai general von second thrust at warsaw has been checked tewa news coming from unofficial sources however shows that the german advance has penetrated farther into poland than had been disclosed previously and that warsaw is threatened tor for a second time general von army has advanced as tar far as the lowicz line which means that the germans have covered two thirds of the ground to the polish capital from which they are now oily forty miles distant farther south in poland however the allies are said to have been repulsed between radom and ICI klesce elce the battle in east prussia seems to have died down but the russians continue to advance in galicia and are still fighting on the crakow cracow front the battle in poland in the direction of lowicz Is the most critical the germans express confidence in general you von II Indenberg but here in P Patro gad military observers express the opinion that dussias Rus sias overwhelming superiority in numbers of men again must tell the serviano ians are making a stand against the austrians Aust lans rians in well chosen fortified positions on the Kolu bara river but as the austrians Aust rians command superior forces and servia Is without allies near enough to offer her assistance it seems apparent that unless other balkan states come into the I 1 war servia Is faced with alth def defeat eat |