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Show RUSSIAN FDR DES ASSUME OFFENSIVE TIDE CF BATTLE TURNING AGAiNST THE GERMANS IN NORTH POLAND. Plan ot Teutons to Smash the Russian Rus-sian Forces Seems to Have Failed and Reinforcements are Being Rushed Forward. With Russian successes in the region re-gion of Przasnysz. North Poland, and Kolomea, East dalica; the successful success-ful progre.i:) of the operations of the allied Meet in the Dardanelles and the decision of the allied governments govern-ments to stop all shipping; to aud from Germany, Austria and Turkey, it is 'believed here that a new phase of the war is about to be entered upon. While the success reported by Pet-rograd Pet-rograd covers only a small portion of the long front in north Poland and the Germans have been able to record a counter success near Kolno, the general gen-eral impression among military men in London is that not only has the German offensive in the north exhausted ex-hausted itself, but the tide Is turning turn-ing in favor of the Russians, who, with railways at their back, have been able to bring up more reinforcements reinforce-ments than the invading army, whose communications, after Germany territory ter-ritory is left, must cross a county of. mat jhes and overflowing rivers. Much more fighting, however, must be waged before a final decision is reached, and in the meantime the battle bat-tle has been resumed in central Poland, Po-land, where the Russians have made a slight advance, and the engagements engage-ments in the Carpathians, eastern Cauda Ca-uda and Bukowina continued with unabated fury. From what can be gathered from the official reports, the Russians, despite the onslaughts made upon them from all sides by the Austrians and Germans, Ger-mans, have been able to maintain their strength at all points and to throw in new troops where they were necessary'. As a result the Austro-German Austro-German plan of compelling them to weaken their center by attacking the two extreme wings has failed and, while the Russians have been forced from East 'Prussian and Kukowlna, they have been able to make a stand and, when reinforced, deliver counterattacks, counter-attacks, which apparently are making some headway. The only activity of any importance in the west is in the Champagne district, dis-trict, where the French continue theit offensive and where the fighting, according ac-cording to the German report, has ibein quite spirited, and in the country coun-try to the north of Verdun, where there have been heavy artillery engagements en-gagements in which the French claim to have done damage to German guns and encampments. French airmen have been dropping bombs on the Metz fortress. |