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Show UTILE CHANGE IN THE WMI FIELD MARSHAL HINDENBURG MAKING SLOW PROGRESS IN RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. Both Sides Are Claiming Advances on the West Front, Where Fierce Fighting Continues Greece and Roumania Remain Spectators. "While the Austro Germans are now In full possession of Belgrade and the heights surrounding the city, according accord-ing to reports, the fightiiir on the various vari-ous other fronts during the past week has brought about Utile or no change in the situation. The Germans, after two days' heavy fighting, in which, according to the British and French accounts, they suffered suf-fered a severe reverse, have abon-doned abon-doned for the moment the attempt to recapture the territory won from them liy the British south of La Bassee. They do claim, however, to have retaken from the French some trenches east of Souchez and at Ta-hure, Ta-hure, in Champagne. Field Marshal von Hindenburg is making slew progress in his operations opera-tions against Dvinsk, and although he claims to have taken more of the Russian positions, he does not appear to be much nearer the city than he was two weeks ago. South of the Pripet river and in Ga-llcia, Ga-llcia, the tide of battle flows and ebbs. First the Russians, then the Austro-Germans Austro-Germans attack and counter-attack, and where during the summer miles of country would change hands in a day, now it is a question of defending some isolated village. The heaviness of the roads doubtless is largely responsible re-sponsible for this. The Bulgarians, so far as is known, have not yet made any incursion Into Serbian territory, and it is believed they will withhold their hands until they know how matters go with the Austro-Germans. Some Balkan authorities, au-thorities, indeed, still believe that the Bulgarians will not Interfere with the movement northward of the Anglo-French Anglo-French expedition, for to do so would immediately bring the shells of the warships into their ports on the Black and Aegean seas, probably followed by the landing of Russian troops at Varna and Burgas and of other troops at Dedeaghatch. Greece and Roumania remain interested inter-ested spectators, although the former has given assurance of her benevolent neutrality toward the -allies. Representatives Repre-sentatives of the entente have furnished fur-nished the Greek government with information in-formation concerning the agreement between Bulgaria and Germany which, it is asserted, gives the Bulgarians a free hand to deal' not only with Serbia, Ser-bia, but with Greece as well, should the central powers win. |