Show DELAY ED BY STIFF DEFENSE RUSSIANS WHILE withdrawing FROM WARSAW DELIVER POW ERFUL COUNTER ATTACKS it Is I 1 not certain th that A t russians can mak make good their retirement from warsaw as a germane germans are E endear nd eav oring to cut off retreat the anniversary of fie tsie outbreak of the war was passed without the ger mans occupying warsaw which was understood to 0 o be part of their program however new news of this climax to the austro gernian german offensive la in the east which wae was begun curly early in may stay Is hourly expected ti for what bat little in formation la Is allied to leak through Is to to the effect that the Hue for several day days have been with withdrawing draing to the line leaving email small force to fight rear guard actions so 0 o that the main armies might make good their retreat these reir guard actions hae developed at many place places into fairly largo large battles ae as the russ ans whose steadiness ha has bieu phenomenal in j he the face of defeat are offering atu btu baub born resistance to the hd 1 valex und and delivering powerful coun Vr trat attacks for example 1 they aey prevented J beld marshal von yon I 1 linden burg from front throwing more mare of hia his troops across the carew repulsed german attack attacks to the of bursaw aej driven back t tn the river some of the invading arr an who crossed the vistula to the routh south of warsaw I 1 it Is I 1 not certain whether the man lan armies can make sooil good the their 1 retirement e ti from 11 th are doing their best beat to prevent it and have moved ap ip very strong reinforcement reinforcements to hasten elk their encircling movement the ape arance of fresh troops also suggests that thu the german staff will not be satisfied with the rapture capture of the city or even the de st ruction of part of the russian army but should this be ce accomplished will break the krest treat tine line and finally try to crush the entire russian force meanwhile the german germans who appear to have an inexhaustible supply of murit munitions ions are fighting desperately to reain every position which they hald along the western front they have recaptured part of the trench trenches which they lost to the british desm stooge and are makin making an effort to re ro gain what they loit lost to the trench french in the muenster of aleace alsace an report cornea comes from noire thai that the austrian austrians anro ins ing for the evacuation of trieste and nave alread removed the machinery of the factories fact orlee |