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Show I GERMANS CHECK BUN INVASION jf AUSTRA-GERMAN FORCES OFFER STRONG RESISTANCE TO GER. MAN TROOPS IN BUKOWINA. a -i i Roumanla Has Not Yet Decided to Join In Conflict, But Action In Balkans Expected to Come Without Warning. The sudden stiffening or the Austrian Aus-trian front at the eleventh hour, to check tho Russian Invasion of Hungary Hun-gary as a natural sequenco of tho oc-j oc-j cupatlon of Dukowlna, seems for tho prcsont to bo tho ovent of chief mili tary importance The Russians seem to rccognlzo this and allrecent dispatches from Potro- j Brad have emphasized tho Austro- Gorman offensive In the oulheaBtcrn theater. Second in Importance perhaps, are tho Russian movements near tho east nnd west Prussian frontiers movements move-ments of which the Gorman statement j received by wireless takes cognizance although insisting that no now ad-( ad-( vances into Gcrm.in territory now are j foared. With great battles soon to bo j fought out at her front door Roumanla i lias not yet decided to join In tho con- j Diet, but it Is patent that tho situa- j (Ion In tho Halkans Is simmering and A It is -believed action will come sud- l denly. In the western theater thero has j been so llttlo change that tho Dritlsh Jj newspapers print tho official commu- j nlcations with aennt comment, pre- i erring to feature Sunday's' naval ac- j tion. Tho facts concerning this on- ii .gatnent are not given in detail and the I admirality 1ms added nothing to the original announcement. K Tho Swedish press Is showing re j newed Irritation against tho British f contraband policy and some of the j Stockholm papers suggest reprisals by j forbidding tho transportation of goods destined for Great Britain over Swed- sh railways. Ono paper says the coun try should strongthen her defenses by j means of which sho would bo nblo to S command respect for her neutrality. I "We could drivo tho Germans back hero If wo choso to attack In forco," said a staff officer who accompanied J tho correspondents on a tour of tho T positions held by tho French in Lor- Jl raine, "but thero would bo no object U In doing this. Wo should have to ro ll treat unless advances were made at Bv certain other points along our line. W Every thousand-yard trench is linked Ej 'up with another, and each division I front with tho others." |