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Show RUSSlSlEATEN IN EASTERN BAUGfA VIENNA WAR OFFICE REPORTS SWEEPING VICTORY OVER FRONT OF 25 MILES. Russian Emperor Reported to Have Assumed Command of His Army and Stirring Events Are Expected Ex-pected in Near Future. A defeat of the Russians over a front of about twenty-five miles in the vicinity of Brody, eastern Galicia, is reported officially by the Vienna wai office. The Russians everywhere evac uated the positions they held, accord ing to the report, and are being pur sued by the Austro-Hungarians. The report says: "We captured the castle of Pod kamien in violent hand-to-hand light :ng; the height of Makutra, southwest of Brody, positions near Radziwilow and many other points of support which were vigorously defended. "The battle at some points contin tied until this morning. Beaten every where, the enemy evacuated his ter rain, our troops pursuing him." The news that Emperor Nicholas had placed himself at the head of his army, which he announced in a tele gram to Raymond Poincare, president of France, and the visit paid by the French commander in chief, General Joffre, to the Italian army foreshad ow, it is believed in military circles in London, stirring events on both the eastern and western fronts in which the armies of all the allies will cooperate. co-operate. It is declared the Russians already are nearly, if not quite, holding theii own against the Austrians and Ger mans, whose advance at most points has been stopped and in places are on the offensive. Riga remains the danger point, but the fact that the Russians continue to. occupy the town after the Germans have advanced to the Dvina, southeast of Riga, leads military writers to the conclusion that the Russians feel reasonably rea-sonably sure of their ability to defend the river and in 'time to push sut'fi cient far westward to relieve the pressure on their forces on the shores of the Gulf of Riga. The Anstrians and Russians are facing each other across the Seith river in Galicia, where the fighting is continuous. The stands which the Russians are making suggest that their supply of ammunition is ample. A Petrograd correspondent says the ammunition shortage of the Russians has been corrected, and that while the production is slow it is incessant aud growing in activity and method. For the thirteenth successive day the allies have bombarded German po sitions in the west, only varying their artillery activity by occasional air raids, sapping and mining opera'i'ons and bomb throwing. In this fighting the Germans are also taking part, and success rests first with one side and then the other. Similar activity is noticed on the part of the Austro-Hungarian army along the northern frontier of Serbia where the Teutons are strengthening their positions on the rivers Save and Danube, presumably preparatory to new offensive movement. |
