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Show GERMANS DEW f STIFF DEFENSE RUSSIANS WHILE WITHDRAWING FROM WARSAW bELIVER' POWERFUL POW-ERFUL COUNTER ATTACKS It is Not Certain That Russians Can Mako Good Their Rotlrement From Warsaw, as Germans Are Endeavoring Endeav-oring to CutiOKjRctreat. Tho annlvorHnry of tho outbreak of tho'Hvar Vas pilswd wlthput, tlio Gor-mans Gor-mans occupying Warsaw, which was understood to bo part of their program, pro-gram, However, news of this climax to tho Austto-Gorman offensive in tho eaHt, which was begun early lu May, Is hourly expected, for What little information in-formation Is allowed to leak through Is to tho effect that tho Itusslaus for several days have been withdrawing to tho Ilrqst line, leaving small forces to light rear guurd actions, bo that the main armies might mako good their retreat. Theso rear gunrd actions lmvo developed de-veloped at mnny places into fairly largo battles, as tho Russians, whoso steadiness has been phenomenal lu the face of defeat, aro offering stub born rpBlstnnco to tlio German advances ad-vances and dolivorlng powerful counterattacks. coun-terattacks. For example, thoy havo provented Field Marshal von Hlnden-burg Hlnden-burg from throwing moro of his troops across tho Nnrow; repulsed German attacks to tho northwest' ot Warsaw and driven back to tho river some of tho invading troops who crossed tho Vistula to tho south ot Warsaw. It is not certain whether tho Russian Rus-sian armies can mako good their retirement re-tirement from Warsaw, Certainly the Austro-GermniiB aro doing their best to prevent it and havo moved up very strong roiiiforcom6nts to hasten their encircling movement, The apoarancc of fresh troops also suggests that the Gorman staff will not bo satisfied with tho capturo ot tho city or oven tho destruction de-struction of part or tho Russian army, but, should this bo accomplished, will break tho Drest lino and finally try to crush tho entire Russian forco. Meanwhile tho Germans, who appear ap-pear to havo an Inoxhaustlblo supply of munitions, aro fighting desperately, to rotaln every position which they hold along tho western front. Thoy havo reenptured part of thn trenches which they IobI to tho Dritlsh near Hoogo and nro making nn off art to regain re-gain what thoy lost to tho French in tho -Muenster rclgion of Alsace. An unconfirmed report comes fromv Romo that tho Austrlans nro preparing prepar-ing for tho evacuation ot Trlosto, and havo already romovod tho machinery of tho munitions factories. |