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Show - BUSSlANSTOSHOiT TEUTONIC ENEMIES GERMANS MAKING NO PROGRESS IN CAMPAIGN IN THE VICINITY OF RIGA. British Military Writers Believe Aus-tro-Germans Have Reached Limitation Limi-tation of Their Penetration of Russia for the Present. Austrian forces that have been engaged en-gaged with the Russians along the Zeith river, south of Tarnopol, in eastern east-ern Galicia, have been withdrawn to the heights east o the Stripa river "before superior enemy forces," it is stated in the official announcement of the Austriali war office. A London dispatch says that the western front, with continuous artillery artil-lery engagements, occasional infantry attacks and the probability that important im-portant events now impending will soon begin, attracts almost as much attention as the eastern battlefields, where the Russians and Austro-Ger-mans are contending for the mastery of railway lines, the possession of which will make the victors more secure se-cure when the time comes to go into winter quarters. For some time yet, however, the east is likely to be the scene of the more sensational actions. The Russians Rus-sians are putting forth a strong offensive of-fensive on either wing and are making an equally stubborn defensive in the center, where the Austro-Germans, although al-though gaining ground daily and coming com-ing closer to the Vilna-Rovno railway, are meeting with increasing opposition. The Austrians admit that they have suffered a setback in this region In the statement that they withdrew their front on the Sereth to the heights east of the Stripa river "before "be-fore superior enemy forces." On the northern end of the line, southeast of Riga, the Russians also are on the aggressive, with the result that the Germans have made no further fur-ther progress against the Dvina river line. Some of the British military writers writ-ers believe that the Austro-Germans have reached the limit of their penetration pene-tration of Russia so far as this year is concerned, and that they must now look to the defense of their present lines. It is reported, in fact, that they are already reconstructing the fortifications fortifi-cations of Kovno, which are threatened threat-ened by the Russian offensive northwest north-west of Vilna. The Russians estimate that the Austro-Germans have 2,500,000 men on their front, twenty-eight corps being in the Baltic and the Lithuanian region. re-gion. Included in this army are eleven elev-en Austrian and nine German cavalry divisions. The Italians, like their western allies, al-lies, are heavily bombarding their opponents' op-ponents' line with artillery, doubtless in an effort to find a weak spot to attack. |