Show GERMAN GERMAN DRIVE ON WEST POSTPONED CHECK IMPOSED b ON ARCHDUKE 1 JOSEPH FERDINANDS FERDINAND'S ARMY R-MY CAUSE CAUSE OF DELAY Neither Side H Has s Attempted Anything of Decisive Nature and ItIs it is Believed It May May be be Weeks Before They Do I London The me The check which h the Russians Rus have imposed on Archduke J Jo Joseph o. o seph Ferdinands Ferdinand's army in southern Poland Po Poland Poland Po land and the additional strain which I this has placed on the German g general gen general meral m- m eral Von army t to th the right has postponed it is believed is in L military ry circles here the threatened isi i German offensive in the west and am I there is noc now a If possibility that the a allies al lies will be the first t to take the o of In support of this it is pointed out but L that the attacks by by the German crown crows I LI princes prince's Army in the which 1 the German press announced was th the commencement of of a general move forward forward for for- ward have ceased and what fighting is going on along the western front consists consists of artillery engagements a afew afew L few isolated attacks and counterattacks counterattacks counter at tacks by infantry which n make ake little or no difference in the positions of the opposing forces The British according to the French report have repulsed a German atI at at- tack The German reports however I I allude to th this s as a British attack and Berlin says it was repulsed with considerable considerable considerable con con- loss In fact t the French and German reports are generally contradictory contradictory con con- in respect to what fighting I Ihas has taken place but from the trend of them it is evident that neither side has attempted anything of a decisive nature and it is believed here that it may be weeks yet before they do S So far Car as the Germans are concerned concerned concerned con military observers assert they are bound to carry out their offensive against again t the Russians until there is some some decisive engagement such as the capture o of the Lublin Cholm railway which it- it it would have been een in iq their hands before now if the AUStrians Austrians Aus- Aus advancing toward ih th the city had hadnot ad adnot not been driven back pack It Italian lian forces in the TY Ty Tv S rol are not seri seriously sly men menacing R Rovereto Rovereto Ro- Ro by their continued advance in inthe inthe inthe the mount mountain ln passes from the east but hut according t to General Gener l CadorI Cadorna's Cadora's as a.'s report are now advancing rapidly on Riva Riv from the west Thus the opera opera- in the district are being being be be- I ing carried forward on both sides of of Lake G rda with Triest as the focal I point of the advance Official reports from the Tyrol front state that engagements in the Chiese valley and at Mount Piano have resulted in favor of the Italian Alpine troops while the heavy artil lery has brought under range of its fire the fortifications erected by tl tile the tileS e S Austrians Austrians' on Ledro lake |