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Show RUSSIANS GAIN GREAT VICTORY Washington. Nov. 6. A dispatch to Earl Kitchener from Grand Duke Nicholas, received at the British embassy em-bassy today, is almost identical with that sent by the grand duke to General Gen-eral Joffre. It reads "Following our successes upon the Vistula, a complete victory has ju6t been gained by our troops along the whole of the front in Galicia Our strategical maneuvers have thus been crowned by what is Incontestably the greatest success gained on our side since the beginning of the war. I am most confident of the speedy and entire en-tire accomplishment of our common lask, persuaded, as I am, that decisive victory will be gained by allied armies " (Special Cable by London Daily Telegraph). Tele-graph). Petrograd. Nov 6. Today's news of the recapture by the Russians of the Galician town of Jaroslau with 5000 ustriau prisoners is taken here to forecast an immediate successful march on Cracow and a successful Invasion In-vasion farther to the north of the German Ger-man pro ince of Silesia. All along their 300-mile battle front the Russians have scored repeated successes in the last week, the fall of Jaroslau being the one event needed need-ed to make the triumph complete all the way from the East Prussian border bor-der south through Poland and into Galicia. Nothing can now oppose the Russian Rus-sian advance on Cracow except the Interference of German troops, whom they have already beaten once, and I Austrians whom they are now driving driv-ing back for the second time. The march on Cracow was necessarily neces-sarily Interrupted when the Germans sweeping into the north, appeared for a time to be menacing Warsaw and Ivangorod. That this check was only temporary has been apparent ever dnee the kaiser's troops were forced to withdraw from their attempts on these towns, but not until today was It known how completely the Russians Rus-sians had succeeded in their move toward the Sllosian border. Germans Preparing. Late announcements by the war office of-fice state that the only check to an uninterrupted Russian advance Into Silesia is the presence of the Germans Ger-mans in Wlrballen, a town In Russian Rus-sian Poland. Confidence is expressed that this single barrier will be swept away without much trouble, in which case the Russians will occupy at least the eastern portion of Silesia and gain a foothold in German territory", from which they may not be dislodged except ex-cept by terrific effort. Already the Germans are known to be preparing for the most important import-ant battle in the eastern campaign, which will be fought between the Wart he river, where It runs north and south, and the Silesian border. The Germans are weakened here by having Bent 500,000 soldiers to their western theatre of war In France and Belgium, and if the battle bat-tle soon to be waged starts to go against them, military experts believe they will evacuate France and Belgium Bel-gium in ordor to rush in men enough to keep the czar out of Silesia, It the Russians should succeed in (Ik I wresting this province from the kaiser, kai-ser, it would be an almost Irreparable Irrepara-ble blow, as Silesia, with its thousands thou-sands of factories and Immense coal mines, is perhaps the richest single province In tho kaiser's entire domain. do-main. Silesia In Danger. ThuR Petrograd expects tho Silesian campaign to mark tho beginning of a general crumbling of the kalsor's battle plans. If he falls to bring up fresh troops from Belgium and Prahce he Will lose Silesia and ovoni-ually ovoni-ually much more rich territory, while If he derided to defend if as heavily heav-ily as it will have to be defended If the Russians are to be kept out, he must virtually abandon his western campaign and withdraw his armies from the front held by the allies of the accompaniment of a harrying rearguard rear-guard attack. The story of the fighting which led to the recapture of Jaroslau shows that the Russian troops in the field have simply swept the Austrians before be-fore them. In spite of a desperate attempt at-tempt to break up tho Russian forces. The Austrians, during the few days preceding the fall of Jaroslau, pound ed the Russian lines with every" available avail-able piece of heavy artillery, and also attacked with cavalry' and infantry, infan-try, but the Russians, boring in stead ily. finally forced the Austrians to retreat along tho San. London, Nov. G. 10 a m The latest lat-est roports from the western battlo front, reaching London from Dutch mitrces. Indicate that the Germans have retired from the Yser, but the fighting Is said to be proceeding Within the triangle of Ypres, Dixmude and Roulers j no latest orticiai communications give evidence that the German assaults as-saults are becoming less Intense and there are some indications of the resumption of the offensive on the part of the allies, with the Belgians reported occupying both banks of the Yser and forcing the Germans in that neighborhood to retire on Bruges. Allies Not Overconfident. In spite of these reports, however, thrro is no disposition among the nlnos to be overconfident. Some hint of this feeling is found In the revived interest in London In the Russian military campaign. Many military critics are voicing the hope that the ad.ance on the eastern German frontier fron-tier will become such a menace that H'ilin will be compelled to recall several seasoned corps from the western front to meet the new dan ger |