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Show OFFICIAL NEWS I FROM GERMANY I I No Changs in Northern France fl and Belgium Fight to Be Renewed in Poland. . I GERMANS RETREATING H Victory of Austrians in Southern South-ern Galicia Alleged to 1 I Be Complete. I I H I Ferliu Nov 2 via London 11:.:" a in. Official reports from the west-em west-em theatre of war report no change j In the situation In northern France I and In Belgium, but events in Poland would appear to be shaping themselves them-selves for a renewal of the fight be. tween the main forces of Kussia and the Austrc-German allies The Austrian and the German armies ar-mies have completed their retirement to new positions previously selected by them When the vanguards of the Russians, who were following ! them, came Into touch with these new imes. thre were several encount- j tors in which the Russians were drw- Austrians Victorious in Galicia- The Austrians In southern Galicia havi Bucceeded In crashing back th Russian left flank wbich for several days has been making a desperate stand in carefully prepared positions i between Turka and Stry-Sambor The Russians employed the pauso In the fighting after the Austrian retirement from this region to entrench them -Belves They built strong field forti- j ficatlons which were made more dlf- I H uii oi BJ 1 ese, by the broken nature of the country Consequently It was a hard task to eject tbem. The Austrians Aus-trians claim a complete victory and report that the enemy was driven from all his positions. The Austrians also report further successes in Bukowina. They have retained their hold on Czernowitc. against a Russian attack and they have defeated a Russian rorce io ine north of Kuthy. Los6 of the Hermet. A British report of the loss of the British cruiser Hermes last Satur-d,i Satur-d,i ir aa made public here this afternoon. after-noon. No particulars however were given A dispatch received here from Con Btantinople says it Is understood the Turkish government will neither expel the subjects in Turkey of the powers I composing the triple entente, nor in-terfere in-terfere With those desiring to leave. Amsterdam, via London. Nov. 2. 10 45 a. m The correspondent of the Handelsblad telegraphs that the Turkish Turk-ish cruiser Sultan Selim. which bom-barded bom-barded Sebastopol Is the cruiser known as the Goeben when the vessel was under the German flag j London. Nov. 2. 7:11 a. m A Rome dispatch to the Central News asserts that Turkish gunboats are reported at the entrance to the Gulf of Suez. Numerous Nu-merous detachments of Turkish caval-rj caval-rj according to the same dispatch, nave reached Akabah, a fortified v.:- w Of Arabia on the gulf of the same mime ll |