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Show MYSTERY OVER RUSSIAN FIGHT I London. Dec. 19, 3:37 a. m The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent Btiys . "Russian reinforcements are pouring pour-ing to the front in Poland, and tho issue in the fighting west of Warsaw depends upon which side can fiing the larger weight in numbers into the battle line." London Dec. 18, 10:45 p. m. Although Al-though there seems no doubt that the Russians are retreating, and that for the present any anticipations the allies al-lies may have held of an early invasion in-vasion of Germany must bo dismissed, ronsiderablo mystery surrounds the reported decisive victory by the Germans, Ger-mans, which Berlin celebrated last nlghl Vienna gives a few details of the fighting in the cast. The claim is mi. mm- mill ui nuBBiaiu nave occm driven out of the positions north of the Carpathian mountains from Kros-no Kros-no to Zakliczyn, which would indicate that part of the southern line of railway rail-way in Galicia again is in the hands of the Austrians, and that Piotrkow and another central Poland town have been stormed, but silence Is maintained as regards North Poland, where the German victor) is said to hae been achieved The Gorman official report dismisses dis-misses this battle with the statement that "in Poland we are still pursuing pursu-ing the enemy, who continues to give way." Amsterdam dispatches serve i heighten th confusion over the situation sit-uation by quoting Berlin papers re-ceived re-ceived there today as expressing disappointment dis-appointment at the fact that no names of battlefields are mentioned; that no tangible results of the fighting are disclosed, and that no lists are given of the number of captured guns and prisoners. Some diaappointmenl is expressed ex-pressed here at the silence of the Russians and advices from Petrograd are awaited eagerly. STATEMENT FROM GENERAL STAFF AT PETROGRAD Petrograd. Dec. 18. The following statement from the general staff of the Russian army was made public tonight : "On the b ft bank of the Vistula an almost complete lull on nearly all of tho front has replaced the attacks made by the enemy in the course of the past few days. All of these a i tacks were repulsed. In connection with the advance of pari of our troops toward the Bzura river (Russian Poland) and in view of the fact that the Austrians are constantly receiving reinforcements in the Carpathians, we have thought tit to rearrange the positions of some oL our armies. "We checked the offensive of the enemy yesterday in western Galicia. On the front, between Sauck and I isko, we have succeeded in our offensive of-fensive and have captured 3000 prisoners, pris-oners, severai guns and mitrailleuses." nri |