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Show Loyal Slave Makes Futile Attemps to Check Drive Apparently the turn In tho tldo by the Russians In East Galacla Is beginning. be-ginning. On several sectors tho loyal troops havo halted and now are facing the Austro-Germans and offering offer-ing resistance as best they can with their badly depleted forces. Although the stands they have made has as yet been unsuccessful In holding back to any great extent tho numerically superior Austro-Oor-man armies, they servo to show that the spirit of loyalty Is still allvo in many of tho men of General Kornll-off's Kornll-off's contingents and that It Is not their purpose to surrondor further terrain without a contest. One of the main attempts of tho Russians to hold back tho enemy has been on the heights east of the rlvor Zbracz, which flow along tho border between Galacla and Russia, but despite de-spite tho resistance offered, they have been compelled by overwhelming numbers to cede- ground to the Austro-Germans who crossed tho stream. Teutons Invade Bukowlnn. The Teutons also havo crtwsed tho Galaclan frontier and now are Invading Invad-ing Bukowlna by way of tho Such-awa Such-awa valley, tholr Immediate objective objec-tive being tho town of Seletyn, whllo tho force that recently was successful success-ful In Its operations against the Russians Rus-sians In the region of Klrllbaba ha3 reached tho territory to tho east of tho upper Moldavia valley. , Tho Rumanians and Russians .fighting near tho northwestern border bor-der of Rumania contlnuo to press forward In the Casln and Putna valleys, val-leys, having captured six additional villages and added materially to the number of men and guns captured. Fifty German spies disguised ns Russian Rus-sian soldiers aro reported to havo been caught and shot. Mass Many Guns In Flnndern. Thero has been a considerable falling qff In tho' Intensity of tho British artillery fire on tho Flanders front, duo, according to Berlin, "to tho paralyzing influenco of our offensive of-fensive activity." Here tho Germans aro said to have concentrated the greatest number of guns that they over have massed on any one sector and aro using them to their full capacity. ca-pacity. Asldo from tho eastern front no military operations of importance are In progress except In the Alsno region re-gion oaf Franco. The army of tho crown prince has made several more Ineffectual attempts to surprise General Gen-eral Potaln's forces here, while Berlin Ber-lin reports tho ropulse of French attacks at-tacks on tho Afsne from Cerny to Wlnterborg and south of Allies. |