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Show CRUSHING DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS Berlin. Dec 18, via wireless to Say Mile, L I. The official press bureau bu-reau today gave out the following items "Coincidence of the expedition to the English coast and the victory in the east continues to cause general j rejoicing Although the headquarters headquar-ters report is chary of details, there Is general expectation that the Rus elan defeat will prove to have been complete. From details already available, avail-able, however, it seems safe to say j that the victory has freed Germany for a long period from any possible meuace of Invasion from the east. The Austrians appear to have done their work as thoroughly. The po-litlcal po-litlcal effect of the victory also Is likely to be advantageous as regards certain powers whose attitude might depend upon the course of events of t he war. "While nearly the whole press is I disposed to consider Field Marshal Von Hindenberg's victory in the light oi an utter crushing of the Russians, the military' critic of the Yorwaerts speaks In a more moderate tone. " 'The talk c)f a destructive defeat of the Russians Is for the present a senseless and misleading exaggeration,' exaggera-tion,' this critic says. 'An army of a million men like the Russian army, which, indeed, in the last four weeks has suffered severe losses, but which alw ays has been able to till the gaps with recruits, does not let itself be i destroyed under present conditions on j front ot several hundred kilometer i (a kilometer is about two-thirds of , a mile i "Vienna's report indicates that ihe ! Russians still are maintaining the ag-I ag-I gresslve in the Carpathians, but de-Jciares de-Jciares that they are retreating else-I else-I v here. That Field Marshal Von Hiu-I Hiu-I denberg will follow up his advantage ko the full extent mav confidently be ! i pec ted. j ' A special dispatch from Geneva lieporta that representatives of differ 1 e nt groups of the Egyptian national I party hac Joined out to represents, j liveB of the Italian government that! , the Egyptians would be loyal to I Italian Tripohtania and would be bet-j bet-j ter neighbors for Italy than the British. Brit-ish. "In the German raid on the Eng 'ish i-ast coast two British destrovera were destroyed and one was heavily damaged. ' General Welitchko. the Russian officer of-ficer of Port Arthur fame has been killed near lodr. "Naples reports that TurkiBh troops' are fifteen miles from the Suez canal ca-nal , "A special committee of the Rumanian Ruma-nian conservative party has approved the continuation of neutrality." oo |