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Show GERMANS TRY NEW ROAD TO LEMBERG LAUNCH FRESH ATTACKS IN AT-TEMPT AT-TEMPT TO BREAK THROUGH RUSSIAN LINES. In Western Zone the French Have Attempted At-tempted to Force the Germans From Strongly Entrenched Positions Posi-tions Without Success. London. Both in the Baltic provinces prov-inces and along the Dniester river heavy fighting continues between the Russians and Austro-Uermans, without, with-out, however, any very material change in the situation. The movement move-ment forward and backward of the battle lines in the Baltic provinces is almost continual and each side has at various times held the advantage. In Oalicia the zone of the fight has changed. The Germans, balked in their effort to reach Lemberg from the south, have commenced an attack on the Russians on the river San, north of Przemysl and along the Dniester in southeastern Oalicia, and In their report claim to have been successful in both sections. The movement in the southeast resembles re-sembles that which failed further up the Dniester, at Zurawna, but is on a wide scale. The right wing of the Austro-German army is only twenty miles from the Roumanian frontier, while its left wing reaches as far as Halicz, where many attacks have been delivered against a bridgehead. The center of the operations is Kolomea, from which point the main attacks which have carried the Teutonic allies al-lies across the Dniester in several places are being launched. Simultaneously the Germans are proceeding with their attack on the Russian center on the river Rawka, west of Warsaw, where they also have been successful, according to their report. re-port. In the western zone, artillery engagements en-gagements are in progress from the sea to the Woevre and even beyond that district, with here and there infantry in-fantry fighting. The French have attempted at-tempted to force the Germans at some points out of their strongly entrenched en-trenched positions, and the Germans have been endeavoring to recover lost ground. A big German offensive was predicted several days ago, but so far it has not materialized, although it is still expected. With Monfalcone and Gradisca in their hands, the Italians have begun at attack on Gorizia (Gorz), further up the Isonzo river, and one of the Austrians' most strongly fortified frontier positions. The Italians already al-ready have cut the communications to the north and south of the town, so that it now depends entirely on the different mountain roads to the eastward. |