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Show RUSSIANS DUTCH BACK BY GERMANS FIERCE BLOWS DELIVERED BY AUSTRO-GERMANS FROM BALTIC BAL-TIC SOUTH TO BESSARABIA. The Possibility of Farther Retreat Being Calmly Considered by Russians Rus-sians Who Are Still Confient of Ultimate Victory. The greatest battle in the world's history is being waged by the Teutonic Teu-tonic allies against the Russians along a 1.000 mile front. The Germans, casting aside everything every-thing else, are concentrating their every effort in a tremendous drive to capture Warsaw and crush Russia. Millions of men are engaged in this gigantic battle, whose line extends from the Baltic in the north to Bes-sardabia Bes-sardabia in the south. Already the Russian lines have been pierced in three different places. North of Warsaw, Field Marshal von Hindenburg has forced his way through and is driving the Russians southward toward the Narew river. South of Warsaw Von Mackensen has smashed the Russian line at the L-ubin-Cholm railway. On the Baltic shore Von Buelow, who is using large forces of cavalry, has crossed the Windau river and is pressing on toward to-ward the stronghold of Riga to destroy any hope of aid to Warsaw from that direction. Alarmed over the advance, Von Hindenburg Hin-denburg in the north and Von Mackensen Mack-ensen in the south, the probability of the Russians having to evacuate Warsaw War-saw is being seriously discussed, both in London and Petrograd. In the Russian capital the possibility possibili-ty of further Russian retreat is being calmly considered and consolation taken from the old theory that the further the invaders are drawn into the country the -worse it will be for the Teutonic allies in the event of ultimate ul-timate Russian victory. |