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Show KAISER'S VICTORY IS NOTCOMPLETE: Derlin, Dec 2u, by wireless to Sa- i 1 1 1 , L I The official press bureau I gave ou the following items today. Although certain observers still af-fee af-fee iif belief that the German vie-I tory in the cast will insure against danger ol a Russian invasion "for ftll lime," as one commentator puts it, it i beginning to be realized that a victory as complete as it was is not synonymous with utter destruction of the Russian hosts and that much remains re-mains to be done. The Vienna N'eur: Freie I'resse publishes pub-lishes the comment of an unnamed general, who points out that the rear gnard engagements of the retreating i nem ma) not only be designed to save the Russian train, hut also to give reinforcements time to come up. I pon whether they will be able to hi :ng enough fresh troops, he says. Will depend whether the success alii al-ii ady achieved will be of lasting alue. A lenna official report, describing heavj fighting near Krosno and along I the upper Dananjec river shows that the Russians there still are capable j "f determined resistance. Private advices ad-vices show that the Russians are retreating re-treating in the Carpathians north-! ard from RCunkacs without fighting. Another factor that contains a warn- ng against too great expectations in P Hand is thai the retreating Russians are getting nearer their base of sup-plies, sup-plies, while their pursuers are getting, farther awa in a country of terrible high way I Despite this and the paucity of official reports, there is complete confidence that Field Marsha Mar-sha Von Hindenberg will be able to .nish what he has started. Reports of fighting at many places in Flanders have caused speculation here as to whether the long expected general attack of the allies may not have begun. Iu any event the fact : of the allies' continuous aggressiveness aggressive-ness the last few days justifies the supposition that considerable forces ijave been brought into activity by them The 'lurks report taking some hills overlooking Kotur near Lake Uru-iniah, Uru-iniah, northwestern Persia There is nothing to report from Ser-via. Ser-via. The St. Petersburg (Petrograd) po !ice have arrested a great number of men and women on account of r. revo-lutionary revo-lutionary plot A court martial at Perm, east Russia, Rus-sia, has sentenced twenty-two men to I ueath on account of strike riots. The British naval attache at Rome vays it is not improbable that a British Brit-ish transport has sunk in the Medi-' terranean as the equipment of a ; tranded vessel has been found on the Italian coast A German lieutenant aviator who has been llbera:ed from captivity by the French states under oath that the French repeatedly lettered him I nd that similar treatment is meted out to other officers. oo |
